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  • Job start date

    1 September 2025

  • Closing date

    12 May 2025 at 9am

  • Date listed

    28 April 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Teacher

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Key stage

Key stage 2

Subject

Key Stage 2

Working pattern

Part time, full time

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

£31,650.00 - £49,084.00 Annually (Actual)

English Teacher job summary

The governors of this oversubscribed school are seeking to appoint an English teacher. We welcome candidates from all religious and non-religious backgrounds and the successful candidate will be joining an outstanding department which is fully resourced, with the opportunity to teach English to pupils across all key stages.

Cardinal Newman is a highly successful 11-18 Catholic comprehensive school set in 37-acre grounds in the pleasant outskirts of Coventry. In our most recent Ofsted visit, staff morale was identified as being high and we are fully committed to the positive wellbeing of our staff.

The department is well established and has an excellent record of achievement over many years. Recent results returned a progress score of 0.67 within the English department. We take every opportunity to support each other, and we have a well-planned and fully resourced curriculum to share best practice and support staff wellbeing. Every teaching room has a visualiser, IWB and we have a suite of computers within the department to support learning. We promote a love of reading and work regularly and closely with our librarian, participating in Harry Potter Book Days and World Book Days – anything to share our love of reading with the students!

This is a fantastic opportunity to make a significant contribution to the future success of our school. We are determined to continue to meet the needs of our students in an ever-changing world and we are confident that we will achieve our vision, which is simple: to become an outstanding school in all we do.

Commitment to safeguarding

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare and safety of young people and expect all staff to share this commitment. Offer of a position is subject to receiving satisfactory references and enhanced DBS clearance.

Applying for the job

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About Cardinal Newman Catholic School

School type
Academy, Roman Catholic, ages 11 to 18
Education phase
Secondary
School size
1481 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 18
Ofsted report
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Cardinal Newman is a highly successful 11-18 Catholic comprehensive school set in 37 acre grounds in the pleasant outskirts of Coventry. We are located within easy access of all areas of Coventry and commutable from surrounding areas such as Birmingham, Solihull, Leamington Spa and Sutton Coldfield.

The school has an excellent reputation, built on strong and longstanding relationships with the local community and beyond. In our recent Section 48 inspection (March 2022) the school was recognised as outstanding:

“Pupils know whom to go to if there is a problem, and they value the strong community spirit. They speak of solid relationships with their tutors and the extended community to which they belong, contributing to excellent behaviour.”

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