7 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    Required: April 2025 or by negotiation for exceptional candidates

  • Closing date

    29 January 2025 at 12pm (midday)

  • Date listed

    22 January 2025

Job details

Visa sponsorship

Skilled Worker visas can be sponsored

Subject

English

Working pattern

Full time: 32.5 Hours

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

MPR/UPR

What skills and experience we're looking for

Elliott Hudson College is looking to appoint an inspiring individual for the position of Teacher of A Level English Literature & English Language. This is a key role within our college, with the successful candidate responsible for teaching and motivating students to reach their full potential. This opportunity is open to both ECTs and Experienced Teachers.

The ideal applicant will have:

Either:

  • A successful record teaching with very good exam results at one or more Key Stage 4 and/or Key Stage 5 (applicants who have already gained QTS)

Or:

  • A successful placement (s), teaching English Literature and English Language at Key Stage 4 and/or Key Stage 5 (applicants currently in training)
  • A good understanding of the A Level English Literature and A Level English Language curricula.
  • A passion for education and for making a difference to disadvantaged students.

What the school offers its staff

What we offer you:

As a trust, we want to ensure that professionals at every stage in their career have the opportunity to enjoy expert support and training. We are pleased to offer a generous benefits package to our team – as we work together to create a rewarding future for all including:

  • Membership to a local government pension scheme.
  • Access to an Employee Assistance Programme which provides confidential professional advice and support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
  • A commitment to continued investment in our professionals, supporting every member of staff throughout their career in the trust.
  • Discounts and online offers at major high street/online retailers.
  • £2k Cycle to work scheme.
  • On-Site Gym.

Further details about the role

About us:

Elliott Hudson College is an ambitious and high performing 16-19 sixth form college that is committed to raising standards for young people across the Leeds City region. Working as part of The GORSE Academies Trust, Elliott Hudson College has a mission to ensure that its students receive an exceptional education and that they successfully progress to their chosen destination.

Within GORSE, we aspire for every young person to acquire the gift of choice and at Elliott Hudson College we are committed to building a community in which all students and staff can thrive. By adopting an approach where we all try to be, and do, a bit better each day, we build a culture of excellence in which all can flourish.

If you would like to know more about our college, please visit our website at www.elliotthudsoncollege.ac.uk.

How to Apply:

If you’re as excited about this opportunity as we are, a Job Description/Person Specification and application form is available to download from The GORSE Academies Trust website (www.tgat.org.uk/jobs), by email to recruitment@elliotthudsoncollege.ac.uk or by telephone on 0113 323 9777.

Please note if you submit an electronic application, we will not require a hard copy. CVs are not accepted.

Closing date for applications: Wednesday 29 January 2025 (12pm)

Interviews will take place: Monday 10 February 2025

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.

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About Elliott Hudson College

School type
Free School, ages 16 to 19
Education phase
Sixth_form_or_college
School size
1226 pupils enrolled
Age range
16 to 19
Phone number
0113 323 9777

Elliott Hudson College has a mission to ensure that its students receive an exceptional education. We are looking for professionals who want to work in a college that focuses on high expectations, challenge and rigour but aligned closely with personal responsibility and pastoral care. Together these values will instil in young people a self-belief that enables them to access the highest standard of higher educational provision and employment.

Through this approach Elliott Hudson College is becoming a catalyst for social change, transforming opportunities for the young people in the communities it serves. We are determined, through the establishment of this college, to ensure that poverty and deprivation should in no way limit either the quality of a young person’s educational experience or the levels of achievement to which those students are able to rise.

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