English KS3 Lead

Highcliffe School, Christchurch, Dorset, BH23 4QD

7 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2026

• Closing date

  6 March 2026 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  27 February 2026

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Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
  • Head of department or curriculum
  • Other leadership roles
  • Suitable for early career teachers
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 3
• Subject: English
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: M1 - UPS3
• Additional allowances:

  TLR 2A £3527

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are seeking an outstanding classroom teacher

to lead KS3 in English and support the English Leadership team.

We are looking for a colleague with a degree in English who loves working in a team and has experience of delivering creative, inspiring lessons and engaging students of all levels of ability.

Highcliffe is a thriving over-subscribed 11 to 18 Academy which seeks committed and motivated teachers to support this important curriculum area in the school.

The successful candidate would be willing to positively contribute to the life and energy of our school community.

What the school offers its staff

The school offers outstanding induction, training and career development opportunities through HISP Learning Partnership

School wellbeing service including counselling

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

HISP MAT is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share in the commitment. This appointment is subject to an enhanced DBS check, social media check and positive references.

Applying for the job

Apply for the job by following the link below.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

Additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

KS3 Lead English February 2026.pdf - 808 KB (opens in new tab)

About Highcliffe School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 19
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 1565 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Highcliffe School website
• Email address: aparsons@highcliffeschool.com
• Phone number: 01425 282323
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/highcliffe-school-bh23-4qd

Highcliffe is a remarkable school with a special atmosphere. We are very highly respected in our community, with whole generations of families coming here for over 50 years from Christchurch and the New Forest. Former students, current students and their parents frequently speak of their powerful emotional bonds to our school lasting a lifetime. Always popular, and usually over-subscribed, in the last two years our identity and success has attracted a rapidly growing number of admissions requests for Year 7. Although we have raised our PAN twice in three years, demand for places still exceeds availability. This is a result of our caring and aspirational ethos combined with our engaging curriculum and excellent extra-curricular opportunities, although our track record of exam success is surely another factor. Our students are lovely young people to work with who respond enthusiastically to good teaching and are keen to learn.

Former students go on to work in international finance, law, education, politics, engineering, medicine, science, and in the Paris fashion houses, or as great chefs, carers, artists, musicians, mechanics, gardeners and much more – but not before they have thrived at Highcliffe academically, creatively and socially. We have an excellent record of success placing students into the top universities in their chosen field. Every year for the last 10 years at least one of our Sixth Form students have, for example, gone on to study at either Oxford or Cambridge universities. We have successful programmes for students accessing careers in medicine, the law and engineering. We are an outwardly focused community with extensive school links in Germany, France, Spain and Japan including a unique exchange programme with a school in Hiroshima.

Our teaching staff are highly experienced, knowledgeable professionals who work together superbly. Our SEND, pastoral, clerical, financial, technical and site staff, who form a good team, are also extremely good at their jobs and committed to the school’s success. We are a friendly, welcoming and supportive environment in which to work or learn, located in a great part of the country. As part of the HISP Multi Academy Trust we offer our team extensive opportunities for professional development; direct collaborative working with Thornden School in Chandler’s Ford and more widely across the Trust region; and career progression routes associated with our development as a regional Hub for school improvement and professional development delivering NPQs, the local ECT programme, the Science Learning Partnership. We are a happy and upbeat school, characterised by warm and trusting relationships between staff and students; one big family. We recently completed a £1.8 million capital project improving heating and hot water, and in December 2022 successfully entered the School Rebuilding Programme to replace 18 classrooms with brand new buildings.

Arranging a visit to Highcliffe School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email aparsons@highcliffeschool.com.

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