English Tutor

Oulder Hill Leadership Academy, Rochdale, Lancashire, OL11 5EF

Deadline is tomorrow

• Job start date

  12 January 2026

• Closing date

  12 December 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  11 December 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Subject: English
• Working pattern: Part time: Zero hours
• Contract type: Casual
• Hourly rate: £35 per hour

What skills and experience we're looking for

Who we’re looking for

We’re looking for a dedicated individual to provide tailored support to our pupils. You will be committed to making a positive difference to young people’s lives and in supporting and developing their learning. Your intervention will help enable an outstanding learning environment for our young people, providing the support they need to succeed.

The successful candidate will be a committed team player with excellent organisational and technical skills. You will have the ability to effectively support learning and teaching, and to develop relationships across our school and the Star community.

You will have:

• Qualified Teacher Status.
• The ability to provide tuition on the subject to GCSE Level.
• The ability to explain concepts clearly and confidently.
• The ability to manage behaviour in the classroom.
• Knowledge of the latest specification and tests in the subject.

What the school offers its staff

Oulder Hill Leadership Academy is a secondary school for 11 to 16 year olds in Rochdale, which joined Star Academies in March 2022. We are a rapidly improving school with high ambitions and expectations for all our pupils, as evidenced by our most recent Ofsted inspection in January 2025, when we were graded ‘Good’ in all four areas of the inspection framework.

Like all Star schools, we have a leadership specialism – providing a knowledge-based academic curriculum alongside a rich and diverse leadership programme that grows character and inspires charitable and social action. Our pursuit of educational excellence is based upon our fundamental belief that every pupil has the capacity to become a successful and inspirational leader.

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

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CVs will not be accepted for this application.

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About Oulder Hill Leadership Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1170 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Email address: recruitment@oulderhill.staracademies.org
• Phone number: 01706 645522
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/oulder-hill-leadership-academy

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