Subject Leader of English
Nicholas Chamberlaine School, Bedworth, Warwickshire, CV12 9EA24 days remaining to apply
Start date details
January/April 2027
Closing date
20 November 2026 at 9am
Date listed
27 October 2026
Job details
Job role
- Head of department or curriculum
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 4
Subject
- English
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full time equivalent salary
- £32,916 to £51,048
Additional allowances
TLR1
What skills and experience we're looking for
The successful candidate will lead a talented team supported by an established departmental leadership structure. Colleagues are encouraged to contribute to school and departmental improvement through strategic leadership projects and professional development opportunities. The department has a strong culture of collaboration, professional development and evidence-informed practice, with staff regularly sharing expertise and refining curriculum and pedagogy together.
Shaping the Future
- Ensure the vision for English is clearly articulated, shared, understood and embedded across the department.
- Develop an ambitious culture of learning, scholarship and achievement, rooted in our shared vision of Proud Traditions, Wide Horizons and High Achievement.
- Lead the strategic development of English, ensuring curriculum, teaching, literacy and enrichment reflect the needs and aspirations of our students and community.
- Use national, local and school performance data to evaluate standards, identify priorities and drive continual improvement in student outcomes.
Leading Teaching and Learning
- Establish a culture of consistently high expectations for all students and staff.
- Lead the design, implementation and continual refinement of an ambitious, knowledge-rich English curriculum from Key Stage 3 to Key Stage 5.
- Promote excellent teaching through evidence-informed practice, coaching and high-quality professional dialogue.
- Ensure teaching meets the needs of all learners through effective curriculum planning, adaptive teaching and appropriate intervention.
- Lead assessment, moderation and quality assurance to secure high standards of teaching, learning and achievement.
- Champion a culture of reading, writing and oracy, promoting reading for pleasure alongside academic success through a rich curriculum and meaningful enrichment opportunities.
- Build strong partnerships with parents and carers to support students' progress and celebrate achievement.
Developing Self and Working with Others
- Lead, coach and develop colleagues through high-quality professional development, collaboration and example.
- Reflect critically on your own leadership and actively pursue opportunities for continual professional growth.
- Build effective partnerships within the school, across the Trust and with external organisations to enhance curriculum and professional practice.
Managing the Organisation
- Produce and implement clear, evidence-informed improvement plans that drive sustained excellence across the English department.
- Ensure departmental systems, resources and routines enable high-quality teaching, learning and curriculum delivery.
Securing Accountability
- Foster a culture of collaboration, professional trust and collective responsibility for student outcomes.
- Hold colleagues to account through supportive challenge, regular review and effective performance management.
- Present accurate and evaluative reports on departmental performance to senior leaders, governors, parents and carers.
Strengthening Community
- Champion the identity of the English department, reflecting the values of Proud Traditions, Wide Horizons and High Achievement.
- Develop meaningful opportunities for student leadership, participation and enrichment within English.
- Collaborate with colleagues across the Trust and beyond to share expertise, develop best practice and improve outcomes for all students.
What the school offers its staff
Nicholas Chamberlaine School is committed to challenging educational and social disadvantage and aims to instil in students the ability to think critically and creatively.
The experience of working for Nicholas Chamberlaine School, and The Griffin Schools Trust, is unique. You will receive challenge and support to become expert in your field, develop the highest-level leadership skills and benefit from the wisdom of an extended family of supportive colleagues. There are excellent opportunities to work with peers and senior Trust staff on elements of our secondary strategy, to engage in leadership training as well as join a research-based Masters Programme.
We engage in a wide variety of Proud Traditions and experiences, including The Griffin Sports Festival, Arts Festival and Science Symposium, which give our community an exceptional breadth of experience.
. . . . . .Wellbeing. . . . . .
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- We have reduced data drops to allow for more teaching and learning.
- We do not roll over the timetable in the summer term, instead we give staff time to work on core priorities and provide staff with essential CPD.
- We have disaggregated 2 teacher training days so that staff can take part in the Effective Formative Assessment programme twilight sessions.
- Curriculum planning is centralised within departments, allowing teachers to focus on adapting from base lessons, rather than having to create from scratch.
- We offer excellent professional development opportunities including NPQs and Trust funded Masters programmes, providing time in school to support.
- We encourage and support teachers to become exam markers.
- Departments are given at least 3 meeting per half term to share practice and subject knowledge.
- We minimise emails by having one Staff Comms per week and one MLT comms per week.
- All detentions are centralised to allow teachers more time to prep.
- We support staff to balance the needs of family life with part time and flexible contracts and paid/unpaid time off.
- All colleagues have free access to a modern gym on site.
- All colleagues can take advantage of the bike to work scheme.
- Weekly staff breakfasts on a Friday.
- Sharing good practice work with other departments.
Further information about the job
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 job requires you to download an application form, you will be able to upload the application once complete.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Nicholas Chamberlaine School
- Organisation type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- Size
- 1456 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- Email address
- recruitment@nicholaschamberlaine.co.uk
- Phone number
- 02476312308
Nicholas Chamberlaine School is a secondary school with VI Form provision in Bedworth, Warwickshire. We have been serving the community for over 60 years and are proud of the impact we are making on the lives of our young people.
In September 2013, we were delighted to join the Griffin Schools Trust and are now part of a family of schools with a distinctive identity. Our closest partner schools are Race Leys Junior School, Park Lane Primary School and Exhall Junior School, and we benefit from working together as a strong and supportive collegiate.
We have a strong vision. Nicholas Chamberlaine is committed to providing an excellent and inspiring educational experience for all our students. To support this, Nicholas Chamberlaine School:
- raises aspirations, expectations and achievement for all students
- ensures students acquire the knowledge, skills and qualifications relevant to adult life and employment
- shows students how to think for themselves, to develop enquiring minds and become disciplined learners
- helps students to understand the world in which they live and their own responsibilities as members of our community and society
- broadens our students’ horizons through a range of academic, creative, sporting and musical activities within and beyond the classroom.
Arranging a visit to Nicholas Chamberlaine School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@nicholaschamberlaine.co.uk.
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