Subject Leader of English

South Axholme Academy, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, DN9 1BY

13 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  January 26

• Closing date

  13 October 2025 at 10am

• Date listed

  30 September 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Head of department or curriculum
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time, full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: MPS/UPS + TLR 1B (£12,228.54)
• Additional allowances:

  MPS/UPS + TLR 1B (£12,228.54)

Subject Leader of English job summary

Hold and articulate a clear vision focused on delivering a world-class English education that develops students’ critical thinking, communication, and literacy skills.

Drive strategic leadership within the English team, empowering teachers and students to excel in reading, writing, analysis, and speaking.

Foster a collaborative culture where all staff in the department are motivated and supported to enhance their pedagogical skills and subject knowledge, and to share best practices.

Create and communicate a shared vision for the English curriculum that inspires teachers, students, and parents, aligning with the wider school and Trust values, and translate this into goals and action plans.

Develop an annual strategic plan to improve English outcomes, emphasising a knowledge-rich curriculum and consistent behaviour management approaches within lessons.

Lead curriculum development for English, ensuring students engage with challenging texts and academic tasks that build progressively from entry through to GCSE readiness, preparing them effectively for future education and careers.

Collaborate closely with other departments, school leaders, and stakeholders to promote literacy across the academy and secure commitment to raising English achievement.

Make informed decisions within broad school guidelines that positively impact teaching quality, student progress, and overall success in English.

Leadership of curriculum, teaching and assessment

Ensure the quality of teaching and learning in English is central to all departmental planning, with a focus on raising standards, enriching student experience, and improving outcomes.

Support English teachers through regular workload reviews, ensuring that all tasks contribute meaningfully to student progress.

Monitor, evaluate, and review teaching across the English department, providing feedback and implementing strategies that drive consistently high standards of lesson delivery.

Stay up to date with subject-specific and wider educational research, using evidence-based practice to inform teaching methods, assessment strategies, and curriculum planning in English.

Establish an annual cycle of assessment, monitoring, and evaluation for English, aligned with the Trust’s policies.

Implement a consistent approach to tracking student progress in English, using assessment data and benchmarks to identify strengths, gaps, and areas for targeted support across different pupil groups.

Create and maintain an inspiring, inclusive English learning environment which encourages all students to reach their potential and fosters a lifelong passion for reading and writing.

Staff management and development

Support the recruitment, retention, and deployment of English teachers, working in partnership with senior leaders to build a high-performing and well-supported department.

Identify underperformance within the English team and lead structured, supportive professional development through regular coaching, mentoring, and subject-specific CPD.

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.

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Commitment to safeguarding

To provide support to students to help them re-engage and be ready for education
To provide a safe and inspiring environment in which students can develop into respectful adults
To ensure all our students have access to the same opportunities as students in mainstream schools through an inspiring, broad and balanced curriculum.

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 South Axholme Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 914 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: South Axholme Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/south-axholme-academy

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