Primary Teacher - English Subject Lead

William Barcroft Junior School, Cleethorpes, North East Lincolnshire, DN35 7SU

23 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  September 2025 (or as soon as possible thereafter)

• Closing date

  30 June 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  5 June 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 2
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £31,650.00 - £43,607.00 Annually (Actual) M1 - M6 + TLR 3

Primary Teacher - English Subject Lead job summary

Our Vision to empower and inspire children, adults and communities to be ambitious, healthy and kind, dedicated to making our world a better place.

Our Fantastic Five Values

D - Harbour children deserve joyful (delight)schools that ignite creativity and learning through play. We invest in colleagues to ensure success and promote lifelong well-being for everyone.

A - We recruit the best colleagues and nurture talent in safe environments, inspiring our children to strive for excellence (ambition). By learning from the best, we improve and give back to our communities.

N - Harbour schools are rooted in care, valuing respect and empathy (nurture). We create supportive environments where children and colleagues thrive, preparing them for the future.

C - We promote pride, inclusion, and civic responsibility, celebrating diversity and community. Colleagues will experience belonging through collaboration, well-being, and continuous development.

E - Success comes when colleagues are empowered to innovate, take risks, and learn from failure. At Harbour, we encourage creativity and collaboration, helping both children and colleagues achieve their goals.

Our Magnificent Seven Behaviors
We will act with integrity, honesty and transparency in all that we do
We will trust our fellow professionals and value their skills and knowledge
We will work collaboratively and encourage others to do the same
We will work inclusively, building and celebrating inclusive and diverse communities
We will be kind to ourselves and in all our dealings with others, acting with
compassion and empathy
We will communicate regularly and with clarity with our stakeholders and with each
other, welcoming and reflecting on constructive feedback from others
We will be aspirational for all, wanting the best for ourselves and for everyone

We are ambitious, caring, kind, inclusive and excited about our future as part of the Harbour Learning Trust family of Schools.

Job title: Class Teacher - English Subject Lead

Location: William Barcroft Academy, Barnett Place, Cleethorpes, North East Lincolnshire, DN35 7SU

Contract: Permanent

Salary Scale: Main Scale - 1-6 - £31,650 - 43,607 + TLR 3

Interview date: Tuesday 8th July 2025

Start date: September 2025 (or as soon as possible thereafter)

Do you have a passion for reading and English that you are eager to share across a whole

school? This post carries responsibility for developing English across our thriving junior

school, building on work and successes already achieved. This is an excellent opportunity

for the successful candidate to develop their leadership skills within a fantastic and

established team.

The successful applicants will:

• Be an excellent teacher, able to communicate a passion for teaching and learning.
• Be a high quality, effective leader who inspires others and has a proven track record of
• school improvement and raising standards.
• Have an up to date understanding of the latest developments in English research and
• development.
• Be confident and effective in the use of assessment to promote and accelerate pupil
• progress.
• Have high expectations of themselves and the children and staff they lead.
• Demonstrate a good level of knowledge and understanding of effective KS2 practice.
• Be able to work collaboratively as part of a year group team.
• Have the capacity to motivate, challenge and nurture children whatever their ability.
• Be prepared to be involved in the wider life of the school.

As a class teacher with leadership responsibility for English, you will:

• Deliver high-quality teaching and learning to your own class, with a commitment to
• raising standards for all learners.
• Lead the strategic development of English across the school, ensuring a consistent
• and ambitious approach from years 3-6
• Work closely with senior leaders to monitor and evaluate teaching, learning and
• progress in English
• Support and coach colleagues in the effective teaching of English including delivery
• of whole-school CPD.
• Inspire a love of reading and writing in pupils, helping them to become confident
• communicators and enthusiastic readers.
• Be proactive in driving improvement, using data, pupil voice and current research to
• inform practice.
• Work with other English leads in our trust to share and develop best practice.

In return, we can offer you:

• A school with above national average results (latest progress measures put us in the
• top 5% of schools in the country for writing progress)
• A welcoming school community with a strong values-driven approach to working and
• learning
• An experienced, supportive, and inclusive team of teachers and support staff
• 3 form entry offering shared planning and resource time
• A commitment to CPD with an excellent opportunity to develop as a leader.
• Enthusiastic, polite and caring children who are eager to learn.
• A supportive and forward-thinking leadership team.
• Opportunities to develop your leadership skills and make a whole-school impact.
• The opportunity to be part of a forward-thinking Trust

We strongly recommend visits to the school for a tour and informal chat. Please contact the Principal Sarah Sargent on 01472 501777

Harbour Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

All posts are subject to satisfactory background checks including references and enhanced DBS checks. In accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education, the Trust carries out an online search as part of the due diligence on shortlisted candidates. References taken up upon interview.

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 are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About William Barcroft Junior School

• School type: Academy, ages 7 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 309 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 7 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: William Barcroft Junior School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/william-barcroft-junior-school

William Barcroft Junior School is a successful school with an ambitious team. Within a lively community in Cleethorpes our recent Ofsted report clearly indicates the passion and drive harnessed within the setting. The post has arisen as the long serving Principal has been promoted within the Trust to Executive Principal.

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