School Staff Instructor (The Key)

Lift Clacton, Clacton on Sea, Essex, CO15 3JL

28 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  13 January 2026 at 11:55am

• Date listed

  16 December 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £22601 - £35259 per annum

School Staff Instructor (The Key) job summary

School Staff Instructor (The Key)

Lift Clacton

Pathfields Road
Clacton on Sea, Essex, CO15 3JL
United Kingdom

Unqualified Teacher Scale + well-being cash plan + pension scheme (TPS) + additional Lift Schools benefits

Permanent, Full Time

January 2026 Start

We are looking for a School Staff Instructor to provide efficient and high quality teaching and learning to students within The Key as well as across the main academy. This role focuses primarily on the delivery of core subjects, and we welcome applications from candidates with experience or confidence in teaching one or more of these areas.

The role focuses on ensuring every child achieves the highest standards of conduct, engagement and progress, while championing targeted teaching and tutoring strategies for students identified as requiring additional intervention within The Key.

The successful candidate will work closely with the Alternative Provision and Inclusion teams to support students with social, emotional and behavioural needs, delivering learning to individuals and small groups, including at off-site provision. You will play an important role in promoting positive behaviour, supporting safeguarding and wellbeing, and contributing to the monitoring of pupil progress. This is a varied and rewarding role for someone committed to inclusion, consistency and helping young people succeed.

About Lift Clacton

Lift Clacton is a rapidly improving school at the heart of the community and recently achieved 'Good' (June 2024). The school has experienced significant growth and improvement with student numbers now over 1,500. We are committed to providing every child with an excellent education not as a privilege, but as a right. We maintain high expectations, foster a positive school culture, and offer clear teaching and learning practices coupled with a supportive senior leadership team.

To arrange a school visit or to find out more about the role, please contact Saran Vijay, our School Operations Manager on

Closing date : 9th January 2026

Who is Lift Schools?

We're a diverse and inclusive network of schools with one clear mission; to provide an excellent education to every child - in every classroom, every day. And we do this across each of our 57 schools. As with our students, we want our team to be empowered to do their best work, supported by the best leadership they've ever had.

We acknowledge and appreciate the exceptional efforts of everyone here in making this an incredible organisation.

We offer you:

* Career development and training: Access a wide range of statutory and developmental training to boost your career.
* Our partnership with One World powers our innovative Instructional Excellence Program. We also offer a comprehensive range of CPD programs, including Ambition Institute's Early Career and NPQ offerings, tailored to both individual and network needs.
* Generous benefits: From your pension plan to healthcare and financial support, we've got you covered.
* Lifestyle perks: Enjoy discounted gym memberships, travel deals, and even electric vehicle incentives.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive an overwhelming response. All candidates are advised to refer to the job description and person specification before making an application.

Lift Schools are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils, and we expect all our people and volunteers to share this commitment. We adopt a fair and consistent recruitment process which is inline with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. This includes online checks for shortlisted candidates. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check.

Lift Schools embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. Job share, part-time and flexible working opportunities will be considered.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and there is a guaranteed interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

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Lift Schools is recruiting for Teacher Training placements. Please click here to view the website for further details.

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

Lift Schools are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils, and we expect all our people and volunteers to share this commitment. We adopt a fair and consistent recruitment process which is inline with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. This includes online checks for shortlisted candidates. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check.

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 Lift Clacton

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 19
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1516 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Lift Clacton website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/clacton-coastal-academy

At the Lift Clacton we aim to ensure that every child ends up in successful employment. To that end we ensure that our curriculum creates opportunities for students to become independent and self-motivated with the ability to be responsible, determined and aspirational. All students are individuals who develop in different ways and at different rates and the curriculum is designed to meet those individual’s needs and provide appropriate technology, qualifications and experiences to support students into their chosen career pathways.

The curriculum is centred around core concepts which are sequenced in order to support students in every subject. Core concepts form the bones of the subject. These pieces of knowledge or skills unlock further learning. Core concepts are sequenced in such a way that students are supported to secure each essential concept before moving onto the next. These concepts are focused around a knowledge rich curriculum where students learn topics to a high level of depth to help them to tackle mastery of each subject discipline.

We prioritise the development of reading, writing and communication to support students to access new challenges in the curriculum as this is an essential element for success in our local context. Students have dedicated reading lessons, to enhance their reading skills and build a culture of reading. Students read for twenty minutes a day every day. Subject leaders work hard to build vocabulary and increase the number of opportunities for students to read in lessons, with at least one reading focused lesson per half term.

We recognise our young people as individuals, offering support and challenges to empower them to achieve their aspirations with a high standard of lesson content. Where students need further support they are provided with opportunities within our Remarkable Futures programme (which provides intensive support to students at risk of disengaging with education) or our Transition Curriculum (which provides an enhanced curriculum to accelerate the progress of students who join Lift Clacton with significant gaps in their learning).

Additionally, there are a variety of enrichment activities to enhance our curriculum. Year 11 and the Sixth form have allocated intervention times and a study hub to support their revision as they build up to their public examinations.

Lift Clacton is committed to providing all of our students with a broad and balanced curriculum. It is our belief that this large discipline of all subjects helps our students to receive a strong traditional academic education, while also having time to find expression in the creative subject areas.

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