Lead Teacher of English
Mossbourne Victoria Park Academy, London, E9 7HD8 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
16 May 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
6 May 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Working pattern
- Full time: 40 hours per week, 52.143 weeks per year
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Teachers’ Main Payscale + Mossbourne MPS Allowance £1600 + TLR / UPS + TLR
What skills and experience we're looking for
Students study English Language and Literature from Year 7. Our teachers are passionate about delivering outstanding lessons and instilling a passion for reading amongst our students, whilst developing them as effective readers, writers, and communicators. It is an extremely exciting place to teach English.
The successful applicant will be passionate about education. They will be well organised, energetic, and willing to go the ‘extra mile’. They will be an outstanding English teacher. They will be instrumental in ensuring that outstanding teaching and learning is maintained in the department, and they will work closely with the Head of Learning Area to deliver this. They will share in the vision that educational excellence is for all. They will strive not only to maintain the department’s high standards of teaching and learning, but they will also be willing to play a significant role in developing the English Learning Area further.
What the school offers its staff
Federation staff are rewarded through the comprehensive package of benefits listed in our Federation Recruitment Brochure, including:
The Mossbourne Allowance (T&Cs apply)
Free lunches (T&Cs apply)
Tea, coffee and refreshments provided for staff throughout the week
Benenden health membership, to support health and wellbeing, fully paid by the Federation
Early finish on Friday – secondary academies
Free staff fitness classes
Cycle to work and season ticket loan schemes
Discounts at local restaurants
Discounted gym membership with the ability to spread membership costs
Saturday and holiday paid programme
Special leave scheme
Staff appreciation awards and events
First rate professional development and career opportunities
Financial support for career development (T&Cs apply)
‘Introduction Bonus’ for current staff (T&Cs apply)
Remuneration for exam board marking (T&Cs apply)
If you are passionate about innovative education, have a commitment to personal excellence and are ready for a new challenge, we welcome your application.
Commitment to safeguarding
The Mossbourne Federation is committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. Applicants will be required to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Applying for the job
Please complete the online application.
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Mossbourne Victoria Park Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 836 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Mossbourne Victoria Park Academy website
- Email address
- recruitment@mossbourne.org
At Mossbourne Victoria Park Academy (MVPA) we continue to build on The Mossbourne Federation ethos to provide an exceptional education for all pupils in our care. With learning at the heart of everything we do, MVPA continues to raise expectations and achievement in Hackney and its neighbouring boroughs with the belief that all students can fulfill their true potential. Our staff deliver excellent lessons; our pupils enjoy a vibrant enrichment programme and have access to debate, speech making and presentation training through our oratory specialism. Our excellent teaching staff work in a rewarding environment where everyone pulls together for the same thing; the best possible deal for our pupils.
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Mossbourne Victoria Park Academy
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