Form Tutor/English teacher and Subject Lead
Churchill Special Free School, Haverhill, Suffolk, CB9 0LB32 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
3 March 2025 at 9am
Date listed
15 January 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 2, Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Subject
- English
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- MPR (£31,650 - £43,607 per annum) plus SEN Allowance
What skills and experience we're looking for
We wish to appoint a highly effective teacher who is inspiring and passionate about teaching and leading English and reading at our school. Someone who is eager to make a difference. We can offer you the opportunity to work as part of a hardworking and highly motivated team focused on raising standards and providing an exciting, challenging and relevant curriculum which ensures our pupils make excellent progress and outcomes. We are focused on preparing our pupils for life beyond Churchill academically, socially and independently and have a very high quality personal development curriculum where pupils are able to access a wide range of enrichment experiences.
We would love to hear from you if you are:
- A talented, creative and inspiring English teacher
- Experienced in teaching pupils in Key Stage 2, 3 or 4 with evidence of at least good progress
- A well organised team player with good interpersonal skills
- Enthusiastic, positive and hard working and has a ‘can do’ approach
- Committed to inclusive practice
Applications are welcomed from those who have worked within mainstream and wish to develop a specialism through appropriate training.
What the school offers its staff
We are part of the Unity Schools Partnership Trust, which has 39 schools across the counties, Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, Essex and Havering. Working for the trust comes with many benefits such as:
- Electric vehicle leasing scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Discounted gym membership
- Free eye test vouchers
- Free flu vouchers
- Access to Telus (Wellbeing support APP)
- 2 week October half term
Further details about the role
“Excellent location in beautiful Suffolk, bordering Essex and Cambridgeshire. Within easy reach of Cambridge City”
We are a special school with a unique environment which caters for 70 pupils aged between 8 and 18 working at age related expectations or just below. Our pupils have language and communication difficulties and high functioning autism.
Pupils at Churchill school are at the centre of everything we do. We have high expectations for both behaviour and achievement and see that every learner has a unique personality and talents to be developed. Our learners access a GCSE curriculum from year 9 onwards. Class sizes are either 11 or 12 pupils with a teacher and two teaching assistants.
We recently had our ungraded Ofsted Inspection in October 2024 and we are very proud to have been judged to have taken effective action to maintain the standards identified at the previous inspection, which was in 2019 where the school was graded outstanding.
Reading at Churchill School is at the centre of the whole school curriculum offer. Reading at our last inspection was recognised a strength. Ofsted reported ‘The school’s effective actions to improve the reading curriculum have had a marked effect on pupils’ reading knowledge. Staff spot who is behind and work quickly to ensure these pupils catch up. This means pupils can access the range of texts they encounter across the curriculum. They enjoy reading and are proud ‘reading ambassadors’. Working closely with the school’s speech and language team, staff help pupils to learn the meaning of new words. Pupils build their vocabulary well and grow in confidence’ Ofsted 2024. Please click on the link to read our report https://reports.ofsted.gov.uk/provider/25/139732
Commitment to safeguarding
Unity Schools Partnership is committed to safer recruitment, equal opportunities, safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. An enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check will be required.
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About Churchill Special Free School
- School type
- Free School, ages 8 to 18
- School size
- 70 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 8 to 18
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Churchill Special Free School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- admin@churchillschool.co.uk
- Phone number
- 01440 760338
Arranging a visit to Churchill Special Free School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email admin@churchillschool.co.uk.
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