English Lead (Junior)

Cedars Academy, Birmingham, West Midlands, B27 6JL

47 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  September 2026

• Closing date

  13 April 2026 at 10am

• Date listed

  25 February 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 2
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: MPS/UPR + TLR2a
• Additional allowances:

  MPS/UPR + TLR2a

English Lead (Junior) job summary

This role is ideal for a practitioner ready to take the next significant step in leadership — someone who believes that reading, writing and oracy transform life chances and who applies up-to-date cognitive science to secure lasting impact.The Opportunity

You will lead English with clarity, ambition and precision, ensuring a coherent, well-sequenced curriculum from Year 3 to Year 6 that secures strong progress for every pupil.

You will:

• Articulate and implement a compelling vision for English aligned with school and Trust priorities

• Lead curriculum design, assessment and quality assurance with measurable impact

• Apply principles from cognitive science to strengthen teaching, retention and pupil independence

• Coach and develop colleagues through modelling, feedback and purposeful CPD

• Use monitoring intelligently to drive improvement, not compliance

• Strengthen inclusive practice through early identification, adaptive teaching and high-quality first teaching that secures ambitious outcomes for pupils with additional needs

• Contribute to Trust subject networks and wider school improvement work

You will remain a class teacher, modelling excellence and credibility every day.

The Leader We Are Seeking

You will:

• Be an outstanding KS2 practitioner with proven impact on outcomes

• Have expert knowledge of the English curriculum and effective pedagogy

• Demonstrate a secure understanding of cognitive science and its practical application

• Think strategically and act purposefully

• Influence others through collaboration, clarity, integrity and professional trust

• Show the ambition and capacity to progress into senior leadership

Previous subject leadership experience is welcome, but what matters most is drive, moral purpose and leadership potential.

We Offer

• A culture of high expectations, professional trust and psychological safety

• A genuinely supportive staff community where collaboration is the norm, not the exception

• Senior leaders committed to coaching, mentoring and developing future aspirations

• Access to Trust-wide networks, leadership development and subject communities

• A clear commitment to staff wellbeing, including manageable workload expectations and time for leadership responsibilities

• A leadership team that values balance, reflection and sustainable excellence

• Pupils who are enthusiastic, respectful and ready to learn

If you are ready to lead English with ambition and take a significant step towards senior leadership, we would welcome your application.

Robin Hood Multi Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced DBS check.

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

This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to necessary pre-employment checks, including: an enhanced DBS; Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work. All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Cedars Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 7 to 11
• Education phase: Primary school
• School size: 318 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 7 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Cedars Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/cedars-academy

Cedars Academy has a strong history of providing exciting and innovative learning opportunities for everyone within our school community.
Within Cedars, we have a growth mindset philosophy and our children have a strong moral purpose, they are prepared to push the
boundaries of what is possible.
Education is so much more than Maths and English and within our school we promote independent learning, mastery in all subjects and the love of the arts.
We strongly believe in promoting wider experiences to capture the imagination of all our pupils.
Cedars Academy are part of Robin Hood Multi-Academy Trust, which has allowed the school to further develop its exciting and innovative curriculum and offer outstanding professional development opportunities across the schools.

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