English Teacher

South Devon UTC, Newton Abbot, Devon, TQ12 2QA

11 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  7 December 2026

• Closing date

  19 October 2026 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  8 October 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher or lecturer
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Subject: English
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full time equivalent salary: £34,069.00 - £52,835.00 Annually (FTE) MPS/UPS

English Teacher job summary

We require from December 2026 a talented teacher of English. We offer GCSE AQA English Language and English Level 1 and Level 2 Functional Skills.

Please come for a visit and see for yourself what a brilliant place and with awesome staff at UTC is to work. We welcome applications from ECTs as well as experienced teachers.

This role is about more than delivering an excellent English curriculum. It is about ensuring that every student can communicate effectively, think critically, and engage confidently with the world around them. You will champion literacy across the UTC, promote reading for pleasure, and work alongside talented colleagues to create an environment where young people can flourish academically, personally, and professionally.

Working within our unique employer-led setting, you will help students understand the importance of effective communication in engineering, healthcare, and the wider world of work. Through high-quality teaching and a passion for English, you will empower young people to achieve their potential, broaden their aspirations, and develop the skills that will serve them throughout their lives.

We are looking for a passionate, ambitious, and inspiring teacher who shares our belief that education opens doors and who is committed to helping every student realise their potential and achieve their ambitions. If you are driven by the opportunity to make a genuine difference to young people's futures, we would love to hear from you.

What we can offer you:

• The opportunity to work in a UTC where all staff are viewed as part of the family.

• Somewhere where leaders look after you as well as encourage you to pursue your aspirations and goals.

• A UTC where the classroom and the learning experience for young people is the centre of everything that we do.

• A UTC with a healthy view of the work life balance needed to be a great teacher.

• Shared schemes of learning and pre-planned resources support workload reduction.

• A sensible and balanced approach to marking and feedback in order to further reduce workload.

• A clear behaviour policy which supports you to be able to teach with enthusiasm and freedom to a receptive audience.

• Opportunities to share your practice and learn from others across the trust and the teaching UTC alliance.

  Please visit our UTC website- www.southdevonutc.org.uk. If you have any further questions please contact Ms Wastell, PA to the Headteacher via email - Julie.wastell@southdevonutc.org.uk

  Applications must be made by submission of the My New Term application from  8th Oct.  The closing date for applications is 20th October with interviews likely to take place on 22nd October, 9--11.30

  Education South West is committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post. This includes checks with past employers, an online check of publicly available information, including social media, and an enhanced disclosure via the Disclosure and Barring Service 

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

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
Childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
Medical
Online and social media
Prohibition from teaching
Right to work
Satisfactory references
Suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

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 South Devon UTC

• Organisation type: Free School, ages 14 to 19
• Education phase: Secondary school
• Size: 184 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 14 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: South Devon UTC website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/south-devon-utc

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