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Teacher of English

Lord Williams's School, Thame, Oxfordshire, OX9 2AQ

This job expired on 20 March 2023 – see similar jobs

• Job start date

  1 September 2023

• Closing date

  20 March 2023 at 9am

• Date listed

  9 March 2023

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
  • Suitable for early career teachers
• Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
• Subject: English
• Working pattern:
  • Full time - Full time 32.5 hours FTE
  • Part time - Flexible part-time hours
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £25, 714 - £41,604

What skills and experience we're looking for

Education/Training

Essential: Graduate (in related discipline)

PGCE or other appropriate teacher training qualification

Desirable: English graduate

Relevant Experience

Essential: Teaching (or teaching practice) in a secondary school

Desirable: Teaching (or teaching practice) in a mixed 11-18 comprehensive school

Relevant Skills/Aptitudes:

Teaching and Learning

Essential: Good classroom teacher (potential to be excellent)

Desirable: Ability to teach A level

Appropriate ICT Skills

Safeguarding

Essential: Motivation to work with children and young people

Ability to form and maintain appropriate relationships and personal boundaries with

children and young people

Emotional resilience in working with challenging behaviours

Special Requirements

Essential: A team worker

Committed to high standards from all students

Love of English

Awareness of equal opportunities issues

What the school offers its staff

The school offers pay and conditions of service set out in the current School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Document and Teachers' Pension Scheme (TPS).

Lord Williams’s School recognises previous continuous service with any Local Authority (or one of its constituent authorities under the Local Government Act 1972) which runs up to the date on which employees start working with us.

To ease the transfer to Oxfordshire, Lord Williams’s School has its own on-site one bed-roomed flats and bedsits which are available on short-term lets.

Lord Williams’s School has a popular, purpose-built Day Nursery which cares for children aged from 6 weeks to 5 years. Based on the Oxford Road site, the Nursery accommodates 39 babies/children of staff and members of the local community. The Nursery is open during term time and half term breaks. School staff have priority for places.

Other benefits we offer include:

• Discounts at local gyms, swimming pools and spas
• Staff social events including parties, quiz nights, pop-up socials and pub trips
• Cycle to work scheme
• Staff sports - football, squash, cricket and walking weekends
• Free eye tests and flu vaccinations
• Employee Assistance programme
• Free on-site parking
• On-site catering facilities
• Discounts at local pubs, shops and car garages
• Staff recognition initiatives
  
• Long service awards

Commitment to safeguarding

Lord Williams’s School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates will be subject to Disclosure and Barring Service checks along with other relevant employment checks.

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Job Brief - Teacher of English March 2023.pdf - 1.37 MB (opens in new tab)

Application Form Guidance Notes 2021.pdf - 155 KB (opens in new tab)

About Lord Williams's School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 2203 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Lord Williams's School website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: personnel@lordwilliams.oxon.sch.uk
• Phone number: 01844 210621
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/lord-williams-s-school (opens in new tab)

Lord Williams’s School is a thriving and popular comprehensive school serving the Thame community and its surrounding rural area. We are a split-site school, with Years 7 – 9 on the Lower School site at Towersey Road and Years 10 – 13 on the Upper School site at Oxford Road. We pay particular attention to each individual student by promoting their personal, social and educational development to enable all to achieve at the highest level possible. As a result of our continuing success, Lord Williams’s School is consistently oversubscribed. We promote high quality teaching and learning. We attract talented, committed and conscientious teachers who produce stimulating and challenging learning activities helped by experienced support staff. Teamwork is a key feature of our work. We are an inclusive school; we cater for all abilities and we provide access for all students. This is reflected in our work with the more able, with students with a range of learning and other difficulties and in our admissions policy for the Sixth Form. The school has excellent teaching facilities on both sites with accommodation that is suited to the demands of the curriculum.

Arranging a visit to Lord Williams's School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email personnel@lordwilliams.oxon.sch.uk.

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