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  • Job start date

    1 September 2025

  • Closing date

    24 April 2025 at 9am

  • Date listed

    14 April 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Teacher

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Key stage

Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5

Subject

English

Working pattern

Full time: Monday to Friday - 08:25 hrs start (1265 hrs p.a.)

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

£38,766 to £60,092

Additional allowances

TLR2A (£3,391 p.a)

What skills and experience we're looking for

  • To act as second in charge of the English Department, in particular to have responsibility for all aspects of Key Stage 3 including its promotion and effectiveness, and to undertake some additional management tasks.
  • To support the HoD in the management, organisation and co-ordination of the teaching of English and to ensure that high standards are maintained by all teachers who may be delivering the subject.
  • To oversee extra-curricular provision to raise the profile of English and Literacy across the school.
  • To teach English to all ages and abilities.
  • To support and promote the vision and values of the School and wider Academy Trust
  • To support and promote the policies of the School, especially with regards to Behaviour, Learning and Equality.
  • To have responsibility for the members of a tutor group if required.
  • To support the Head of Department with monitoring and tracking of progress.
  • To maintain and develop a whole school subject policy.
  • To work with the Head of Department to create a suitable environment within the department in which effective teaching and learning takes place and to maintain high standards of order, work and behaviour.
  • To contribute to the annual department SEF and Department Development Plan.
  • To deputise for the Head of English in their absence and to provide support in all aspects of the running of the Department.
  • To undertake lesson observations within the Department.
  • To be accountable to the Head of Department for the progress of pupils, curriculum development, quality of teaching and deployment of resources in the designated Key Stage.
  • To oversee the schemes of work for KS3 and actively develop schemes of learning with the HOD for KS3 such that it adequately prepares for KS4.
  • To perform any other task reasonably deemed by the Headteacher to be commensurate with the post and within the nature and scope of a teachers responsibilities

Other Professional Requirements

  • Have a working knowledge of teachers' professional duties and legal liabilities
  • Operate at all times within the stated policies and practices of the school
  • Maintain an up to date knowledge of good practice in teaching techniques
  • Know subject(s) or specialism(s) to enable effective teaching
  • Take account of wider curriculum developments
  • Incorporate national strategies in all teaching
  • Communicate learning objectives
  • Undertake professional development to enhance teaching and pupils' learning and apply outcomes and identify impact
  • Share outcomes with colleagues
  • Take responsibility for professional learning/ Communicate learning objectives
  • Undertake professional development to enhance teaching and pupils' learning and apply outcomes and identify impact
  • Share outcomes with colleagues
  • Take responsibility for professional learning.

What the school offers its staff

The Trust currently oversees eleven academies and combines the heritage and tradition of the Corporation of London with a genuinely innovative, enterprising, and entrepreneurial ethos. We are also committed to providing training and development to all our staff, plus excellent career advancement opportunities within our evolving Trust.

London Nautical is driven by the ambition to be the best. We believe exceptional leaders create exceptional schools; they transform lives and shape the future of every student. We are a 11 to 16 boys’ school with a co-ed at 6th form, situated in the centre of London on the Southbank close to world famous theatres and art galleries. With our 580 students we are a close-knit, warm environment seeking colleagues who value this and wish to contribute to the wider life of our school and community.

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

Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to rmelia3.208@lns.org.uk

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Additional documents

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About London Nautical, City of London Academy

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 18
Education phase
Secondary
School size
Up to 720 pupils
Age range
11 to 18
Ofsted report
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Phone number
02079286801

Arranging a visit to London Nautical, City of London Academy

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email rmelia3.208@lns.org.uk.

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