Regional Subject Lead - English

Oasis Community Learning, London, SE1 7HS

12 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  3 July 2026

• Closing date

  19 July 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  6 July 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other leadership roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: Lead Practitioner scale 12 - 16

Regional Subject Lead - English job summary

We believe that the teaching of English is one of the most powerful responsibilities we hold as educators across the Oasis Trust. It is a subject that shapes how young people understand the world, express themselves, think critically and engage confidently with their futures. English develops analytical thinking, strengthens communication, and opens doors to culture, creativity and opportunity from exploring literature and language to understanding how stories shape society. 

To achieve our ambition of bringing English to life for every student, we need an inspirer of minds and a champion of language who understands the craft of reading, writing and oracy. Someone who can help young people grasp the difference between analysis, interpretation and evaluation, and who knows how to spark curiosity about texts, authors and ideas. We need an English specialist who believes every student has the right to flourish, and who can design and deliver a curriculum that supports that ambition. 

The Regional Subject Lead for English will play a pivotal role in realising this vision, ensuring the effective implementation of our English strategy across all secondary academies. 

Are you ready for a new challenge? 

• You will join an organisation you already know with a powerful Ethos and commitment to a model of inclusion, hope, perseverance, healthy relationships and compassion throughout all the aspects of the life and culture of each Academy community. That makes it a truly rewarding and inspiring place to work. 
• You’ll be developed to ensure you are up to date with the most current thinking, research and best-practice in the critical areas of curriculum, pedagogy and assessment. We want you to develop personally and to grow your career with us. 
• You’ll report into the relevant Regional Director (with supervision from the National Subject Lead) in a trusted working partnership as well as collaboratively engaging and knowledge sharing with other leaders across the Trust. 
• You’ll enjoy a generous package in an organisation that supports difference and welcomes contribution and innovation. Delivering exceptional education will require new approaches, new strategies and new ideation. 

What is the role: 

There is a full job description attached but in summary: 

You will focus on a number of key areas: 

• Strategic Direction & Support – ensuring consistency of subject quality and delivery across Oasis, raising outcomes by improving the quality of teaching and learning, analyse performance data – all as part of the national subject team. 
• Building Capacity – provision of support and coaching for teachers and leaders to improve quality of teaching and learning 
• Teaching and Learning – be an active and exemplary practitioner, modelling best practice in all aspects of your subject. Willing to share your expertise through teaching, team teaching, facilitation and co-facilitation 

 

The above will require you to be a specialist in: teaching and leading in your chosen subject, improving learner outcomes, curriculum input and development and subject specific professional development. 

 

This is a genuinely transformative role that, through effective strategic deployment, will provide our academies with a world-class educational framework from which to further enhance the quality of our education for all. 

What are we looking for: 

You’ll be an experienced educationalist and subject specialist with strong subject specific assessment expertise. 

 

You will have worked in a senior role in an educational establishment and be able to demonstrate strong subject leadership and influencing skills 

 

So, if this sounds like a role that would harness your love and genuine passion for all things English & Literacy and you relish the opportunity to influence the prospects and potential of a generation – we would love to hear from you! 

Please note this is a part time role, 0.4 FTE

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

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 Oasis Community Learning

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• Website: Oasis Community Learning website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/oasis-community-learning

The overall vision for every part of the Oasis trust is for community. A place where everyone is included, making a contribution and reaching their God-given potential. As well as delivering first-class, innovative education, we seek to build a ‘Hub’ in each of the areas where we work; creating safe and inspiring local neighbourhoods that provide integrated and diverse services to benefit the whole person and whole community.

Exceptional Education at the Heart of the Community
We understand the complex responsibilities of education, through a lens of character, competence and community. These principles, along with the Oasis 9 Habits and ethos, are intentionally developed and embedded throughout all of our academies day-to-day.

We have a commitment to inclusion, social integration and closing the disadvantage gap; we want to give advantage to the disadvantaged. Through a fostering of character and relationships, our students and teachers can form meaningful relationships built on a shared determination to learn and develop together as one community; one family.

Together, Oasis staff aspire to:

Create safe, stimulating learning environments
Increase progress and attainment above national averages
Provide high quality teaching which secures good and accelerated progress for all students

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