English Teacher

The Ropemakers' Academy, Hailsham, East Sussex, BN27 1FB

23 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  28 February 2026 at 11:28am

• Date listed

  3 February 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: Teachers Upper Payscale UPS1 - UPS3 (East Sussex) £47,472 FTE - £51,048 FTE

English Teacher job summary

We are seeking an experienced and energetic English Teacher to join our team at The St. George’s House, Brighton.

Information about the School

St. George’s House is a new satellite key stage 4 provision, linked to The Ropemakers School in Hailsham. It will be offering a nurturing, inclusive environment for twenty pupils with SEMH

and associated needs. We have high expectations for each child to leave as a confident young adult who is well prepared for their post-16 journey and the future.

St. George’s is an innovative project developed in close partnership with Brighton and Hove County Council. Opening in September 2024, St. George’s will aim to deliver outstanding

education and care focusing on offering pupils the opportunity to build their resilience for the rest of their lives. There will be an emphasis on improving emotional, academic, vocational and physical skills leading to meaningful, sustainable outcomes for life.

What will St. George’s offer?

✓ Access to high quality teaching and specialist facilities

✓ A small, safe and nurturing environment, where children can thrive and develop.

✓ Bespoke alternative education programmes.

✓ Access to a range of realistic accreditation and training opportunities including a new vocational programme delivered in conjunction with local providers that will provide a supportive bridge into work.

✓ A supported and enriched programme of work experience and employability

✓ A planned and smooth transition from the world of secondary education into further education and training.

✓ A range of qualifications in core subjects including City and Guilds, Functional skills, GCSE (AQA) and ASDAN

✓ Additional therapeutic support and a named work coach

St. George’s will relentlessly drive for success, celebrate achievement and promote a climate of possibility. All members of our community will be kind, polite and respectful and have the

opportunity to access stand-out education and care that will provide the platform for meaningful outcomes and improved life chances. The curriculum presents formal, informal and enriched opportunities for development and progress. This enables the children who graduate from Beckmead to become independent, connected members of the communities where they live and the workplaces that may employ them.

As part of the Beckmead Trust, our ethos involves close collaboration with Brighton and Hove, specialist and mainstream schools, outside specialist agencies with enhanced knowledge of our children’s needs and the private, voluntary and charity sectors within the communities in which we work.

If you share our vision of Love, Flourishing, Community and Social Justice. and if you have a desire to make a real difference to the lives of children in Brighton and Hove, we would welcome an application from you.

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

The Beckmead Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children and young people so expect all staff, volunteers and contractors, to share this commitment. As part of our safeguarding commitment, appointment to any post is subject to receipt of satisfactory references, medical clearance (including the ability to participate in Physical Intervention), satisfactory Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check as well as evidence of the right to live and work in the United Kingdom. We will also carry out an online search on shortlisted candidates to help identify any incidents/issues which are publicly available online.

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 The Ropemakers' Academy

• School type: Free School, ages 4 to 16
• School size: 111 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: The Ropemakers' Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-ropemakers-academy

The Ropemakers school is set in a wonderful, expansive and picturesque site in the Sussex town of Hailsham. The name comes from the rich rope making history associated with the town, which originated in the early nineteenth century.

Hailsham itself is a market town set just north of Eastbourne and has good road links from the A22 and A27 and is a lovely area is, and we intend to make full use of our surroundings to enrich our curriculum offer.

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