English Teacher

Walderslade School, Chatham, Kent, ME5 0LE

4 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  January 2026 or earlier

• Closing date

  18 July 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  10 July 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
  • Suitable for early career teachers
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Subject: English
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £31,650.00 - £49,084.00 Annually (FTE) MPS/UPS

English Teacher job summary

We are seeking an experienced English Teacher to strengthen our English department by bringing valuable experience from a different educational setting.

The successful candidate will be responsible for demonstrating high quality teaching, ensuring students can make accelerated progress and use effective resources to deliver the highest standards of learning and achievement for all students.

Walderslade & Greenacre Schools Partnership is aspiring to be a vibrant and high performing partnership with a strong community spirit and an ethos of inclusion, supporting learners of all abilities. You will work alongside a strong and motivated team, who are committed to ensuring that our pupils make outstanding progress.

Applications are welcomed from teachers with varied experience, including those with experience from the primary school settings, ECT teachers and unqualified teachers.

In return, we will offer you:

• An incredibly supportive group of colleagues and leaders
• Comprehensive induction programme with a commitment to CPD
• Care first employee assistance programme
• Non-contributory membership of Benenden private health care cover
• Membership of the Teachers’ Pension Scheme
• Two-week half term in October
• Cycle To Work Scheme

For further details on this role and to apply please complete an application form which can be found on the school’s careers page Our Vacancies | The Walderslade & Greenacre Schools Partnership

Visits to the school are strongly encouraged. For further information and to arrange a school visit, please contact Louise Campbell on 01634 861593 or via email campl313@wgsp.org.uk

We reserve the right to bring forward the closing date where interest and applications received are high, therefore we encourage early applications.

Safeguarding Commitment

Beyond Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment. All post holders in a regulated activity are subject to appropriate vetting procedures and a satisfactory "Disclosing and Barring Service (DBS) Enhanced check".

Equality & Inclusivity Statement

At Beyond Schools Trust we strive to be a diverse and inclusive workplace where we can ALL be ourselves. We particularly encourage applications from under-represented communities, including but not limited to those who identify as Black, Asian or from a minority ethnic background.

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 Walderslade School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 806 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Walderslade School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/walderslade-school

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