Head of Faculty - English

The East Manchester Academy, Manchester, Greater Manchester, M11 3DS

13 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  January 2027

• Closing date

  15 June 2026 at 8am

• Date listed

  2 June 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Subject: English
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £47,779.00 - £65,911.00 Annually (Actual) MPS - UPS + TLR 1c

Head of Faculty - English job summary

About Us

The East Manchester Academy is a vibrant and innovative educational community in the heart of Beswick. We are a part of the Greater Manchester Education Trust. Together, we create lives of opportunity.

‘The East Manchester Academy is a beacon of hope and aspiration for pupils’ (Ofsted 2023)

‘The sense of community is tangible in this inclusive school.’ (Ofsted 2025)

This is a truly exciting time to join The East Manchester Academy as we continue our journey of transformation. Following our most recent Ofsted inspection in March 2025, we are proud to have been judged ‘Good’ overall, with ‘Outstanding’ in Personal Development and Leadership and Management. This marks a significant step forward from our previous inspection and reflects the dedication, ambition, and talent of our staff and students. We are now ready to build on this momentum and accelerate our journey to become an exceptional school where every child flourishes both academically and personally.

Please visit our website to learn more about us and contact: recruitment@temac.co.uk if you would like to arrange a visit to the academy prior to application.

The Role

We are seeking an inspiring and experienced leader to take on the role of Head of English Faculty, providing strategic direction and professional leadership to drive outstanding teaching and learning across the department. You will be responsible for raising achievement, ensuring high-quality curriculum provision, and embedding a culture of continuous improvement through effective use of data, monitoring, and evaluation. Working as part of the wider leadership team, you will play a key role in shaping whole-school priorities, implementing improvement plans, and ensuring all students receive an engaging, challenging, and inclusive English education.

This is a pivotal role requiring the ability to lead, motivate, and develop staff, ensuring high standards of teaching practice and supporting professional development across the faculty. You will oversee curriculum planning, assessment, and resource management, while fostering a collaborative team ethos and maintaining strong partnerships with students, parents, and external stakeholders to ensure the best possible outcomes for all learners.

What We're Looking For

You will be a qualified teacher with a strong track record of delivering consistently high-quality teaching and a deep understanding of the English curriculum at Key Stages 3 and 4. You will bring excellent knowledge of current teaching and learning strategies, assessment practices, and school improvement approaches, along with a proven ability to analyse performance data and translate insight into impactful action.

As a leader, you will be highly organised, resilient, and committed to raising standards, with the ability to inspire both students and colleagues. You will demonstrate strong interpersonal and people management skills, the confidence to challenge under performance, and a genuine commitment to professional development, collaboration, and the school’s values. Your enthusiasm, ambition, and drive will enable you to lead a successful faculty and contribute meaningfully to whole-school improvement.

Full details about the role and the qualifications, experience, and attributes required can be found in the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Why Join Us?

The successful candidate will join an academy that is relentless in its drive to ensure our students and staff alike achieve their very best and our proud of themselves. We are proud to serve our diverse and inclusive community and wish to appoint a practitioner who shares our commitment to young people in challenging circumstances who believes that excellent leadership can leverage high levels of performance and remains optimistic in the face of adversity.

A Trust for Every Child and Every Colleague

We believe that great futures are built by great people. Colleagues who work in our schools will experience the same focus on care and guidance, opportunity and challenge, so that they can deliver an exceptional education to our young people. They will become the very best practitioners through bespoke support and opportunities to learn professionally, to collaborate, to lead innovation and to advance their career with us.

We strive for excellence in everything we do. At GMET, every role, from teaching to support, is valued. You’ll be supported and empowered to grow within a trust where our core values guide our work with learners, colleagues, families, and the wider community.

We invest in our people. As part of GMET, you’ll benefit from a wide range of employee benefits designed to support your health and wellbeing, help you save money, and make your salary go further including:

• A warm, inclusive, and supportive school culture
• High expectations for all learners and staff
• A strong focus on wellbeing and professional development
• Opportunities to innovate and collaborate across the trust
• A commitment to equity, diversity and accessibility
• Tailored CPD and coaching
• Trust-wide networks and learning communities
• Leadership development pathways
• Access to wellbeing resources and flexible working options

How to Apply

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Complete the application form

Include a personal statement tailored to the role

Submit your application before the deadline

We are committed to safeguarding, child protection and promoting the wellbeing of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. All roles are subject to:

• Enhanced DBS checks
• Reference and identity verification
• Compliance with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE)

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. If you require any adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know.

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 East Manchester Academy is committed to safeguarding, child protection and promoting the well-being of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to appropriate vetting procedures and a satisfactory Enhanced Check from the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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 East Manchester Academy

• School type: Academies, None, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 1031 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: The East Manchester Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-east-manchester-academy

‘The East Manchester Academy is a beacon of hope and aspiration for pupils’ (Ofsted 2023).

This is an exciting time for the academy and to help transform the life chances of students within East Manchester. As you will see from our recent Ofsted inspection report, we have driven rapid improvements to all areas and are ready to accelerate further. We are a growing academy and we are now looking to add further capacity to our team as we enter the next stage of our development; to become an exceptional school that ensures the children of East Manchester flourish both academically and socially. We are a forward thinking and happy school, we embrace research and work collaboratively with colleagues within and beyond our trust to drive standards.

The academy is part of The Greater Manchester Education Trust. The Trust is a multi-academy trust, which came into effect in September 2022 comprising four schools; The East Manchester Academy, a mixed school of over 1,000 students in the heart of Manchester’s re-generation area, Whalley Range 11-18 High School, a girls school of 1,500 students, Levenshulme High School, a girls school which is three miles away with a very similar, diverse community and Parrs Wood 11-18 High School a mixed school of nearly 2000 students in the heart of East Didsbury.

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