English Teacher
Wildern School, Southampton, Hampshire, SO30 4EJ8 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2024
Closing date
8 May 2024 at 1pm
Date listed
15 April 2024
Job details
Job role
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Subject
- English
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £30,000.00 - £46,525.00 Annually (Actual)
English Teacher job summary
Wildern Secondary School is a large secondary school in Hedge End, Southampton and we are looking for a passionate, enthusiastic, and creative English Teacher to join our English department. We are part of the Wildern Academy Trust which comprises of Wildern School, Deer Park Secondary School and Boorley Park Primary School.
The successful candidates would be given excellent career development opportunities. For interested candidates who would like to work in a great school with a strong positive and supportive culture and work with a fantastic curriculum team with excellent GCSE results we would love to hear from you. This role is also suitable for Early Career Teachers.
Benefits of working within our English Department:
- Very large, supportive and friendly team of over 20 English teachers of all experience levels who are keen to share their knowledge and resources with each other.
- Two dedicated Core Progress assistants who work solely within the English department to support students and staff.
- A thoroughly planned and resourced curriculum across all year groups which builds a coherent and robust ‘5 year journey’ across the time students spend with us here at Wildern.
- Opportunities to shape and contribute to our curriculum which we evaluate and reflect on continually as a team.
- At KS3, all classes have a lesson a fortnight in the LRC to encourage and foster a love of reading.
- At KS4, students study ‘Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’, ‘An Inspector Calls’, ‘Macbeth’ and the ‘Power and Conflict’ poetry anthology.
- Continual CPD opportunities through whole school sessions, Curriculum meetings and workshops, as well as working with experienced staff within the department.
- Opportunities to develop student cultural capital through our ever-evolving offering of trips and extra-curricular activities.
Benefits of working for our trust include:
- Helping to shape the futures of children in our community
- Welcoming, Supportive, Friendly and sociable colleagues
- An Amazing Competitive salary
- Excellent Continuing Professional Development with high quality CPD program
- Many opportunities for career progression
- Free large on-site car park
- Good transport links
- Workplace Pension Scheme
- Enrolment in the Teachers’ Pension Scheme
- A tax efficient Cycle-to-Work scheme through salary sacrifice
- A amazing rate for staff membership at our modern on-site Leisure Centre
If you currently work in a school, please ensure one of your references is from your current Headteacher. Please submit your application as soon as possible as we may invite candidates to interview before the closing date. Closing Date: Midday Wednesday 8th May 2024.
Disclaimer: due to the high volume of applications we receive, we reserve the right to close a vacancy earlier than the advertised date if we receive applications that meet the criteria. Once a vacancy has closed, we are unable to consider further applications, so please submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
Wildern 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. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment. All successful candidates will be subject to Disclosure and Barring Service checks along with other relevant employment checks.
Commitment to safeguarding
Wildern 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. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment. All successful candidates will be subject to Disclosure and Barring Service checks along with other relevant employment checks.
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About Wildern School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 1921 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Wildern School website (opens in new tab)
Wildern School is a popular, oversubscribed secondary school situated in the Southampton suburbs. We are a school with significant strength in the CPD of staff, developing our teachers for the next stage of their careers. All students and staff alike can take advantage of excellent facilities which include a lecture theatre, digital media suites, a recording studio, both PC and Mac Suites, community sports centre and access to a professional theatre.
We are part of the Wildern Academy Trust which comprises of Wildern School, Deer Park Secondary School and Boorley Park Primary School.
This is an exciting time for the trust and all colleagues joining us.
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