Teacher of English
Queen Katharine Academy, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, PE4 6HX16 days remaining to apply
Start date details
Easter 2025 or January 2025 (if possible)
Closing date
9 December 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
21 November 2024
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subject
- English
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- MPS/UPS
Teacher of English job summary
English Teacher
Contract: Permanent
Salary: MPS/UPS
Site: Queen Katharine Academy
Closing date: 9th December 2024
Interview date: 10th December 2024
Start: Easter 2025 or January 2025 (if possible)
Please note – Thomas Deacon Education Trust withhold the right to withdraw the advert and/or interview suitable candidates before the specified closing date.
Do you have a passion for teaching English and inspiring young minds?
Are you ready to join a dynamic team and make a real difference in students' lives?
If so, Queen Katharine Academy wants you!
Your Role:
As an English Teacher at Queen Katharine Academy, you will deliver engaging lessons that follow the curriculum and help students achieve their full potential. You will collaborate with colleagues to develop teaching programmes and assessments, maintain positive behaviour and discipline, and engage with parents and external bodies to support students. Additionally, you will participate in professional development, lead extra-curricular activities, and mentor a tutor group, monitoring their social and academic progress.
About us:
The English team at QKA are an award-winning department with an ambitious and aspiring team. the team have been awarded the TES English Team of the Year 2021 award for their delivery of a ‘multi-layered approach in bringing texts to life for students, as well as the uniqueness of the curriculum and the ways in which diversity in literature is strongly embedded’ (TES Judges). The team were also shortlisted for the Bernice McCabe Award and were highly commended by the PTI for their work on the growth in their KS5 provision and social mobility.
The department is well resourced and led by fantastic practitioners and we are looking to appoint a colleague who shares their enthusiasm and unwavering determination to help every student enjoy, achieve and progress in English from KS3 through to KS5. In Sixth Form, A Level English Language and A Level English Literature are delivered and, in both subjects, students make well above average progress given their starting points.
This is an excellent opportunity to join a school within one of the well-regarded Trusts in the eastern region. The school has a great history of success and a bright and exciting future and we are looking for an ambitious and dynamic teacher to steer it through the next stage of its development. Collaboration, educational research and professional development are at the core of how the schools within Thomas Deacon Education Trust work together. With a clear focus on teaching at all levels, the Trust is well placed to provide great opportunities to promote Thomas Deacon Academy as a leading school and you will be given effective support to develop you personally as an outstanding teacher.
Why work for us?
We are part of the Thomas Deacon Education Trust, and we can offer you:
Progression opportunities across the Trust
Continuous development, e.g. training, coaching
Free eye test vouchers and flu vaccinations
Cycle to work scheme
Recommend a Friend Reward scheme
Access to the most generous pension schemes in the UK (LGPS & teachers’ pension scheme)
Free & confidential Employee Assistance Programme
Mental health first aiders
Collaborative working across schools in the Trust
If you have the skills we are looking for, we can’t wait to meet you!
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Thomas Deacon Education Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The Academy will require the successful candidate to provide satisfactory references and undertake an Enhanced Check with the Disclosure and Barring Service.
At Thomas Deacon Education Trust, we are committed to equality of opportunity for all. We welcome applications from everyone, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation. Join us in fostering an inclusive and supportive environment where all contributions are valued.
If you have any questions regarding this post, please contact the HR Team on e-mail at hrteam@tdet.education
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 school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About Queen Katharine Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1675 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Queen Katharine Academy website (opens in new tab)
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