Teacher of English
Royal Alexandra and Albert School, Reigate, Surrey, RH2 0TDDeadline is today
Start date details
January 2025
Closing date
3 October 2024 at 9am
Date listed
18 September 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- 31,350 - 47,839
Teacher of English job summary
We are a ‘Good’ school (Ofsted, April 2024) which is vibrant and purposeful. We are a co-educational, comprehensive state boarding school for children aged 7 to 18 years, with approximately 670 flexi-borders and 430 full boarders. The school is a popular choice for local families who attend on our flexi boarding package, as well as for full boarders from further afield in the UK and internationally. This is due to a wide range of factors including our facilities, academic pathways and results, pastoral care, the boarding and flexi-boarding ethos and environment, wide range of trips and co-curricular activities and the resultant attitudes of its students.
We offer:
• Strong induction programme
• Beautiful estate set in 260 acres of parkland
• On-site parking
• Convenient location, close to the A23 and M25
We are looking for an exceptional Teacher of English who can provide highly effective and innovative teaching of English across the senior school, to ensure that all our students make excellent progress and inspire students to have a passion for the subject. Some experience in delivering Media Studies, French or Spanish would be a benefit but is not essential.
All KS4 students do both English Language and English Literature at GCSE.
The department is keen to develop further the academic successes which have been gained by the students right across the ability range including a number of students going on to study at degree level.
The successful candidate will be:
• Passionate about the teaching of English
• An excellent practitioner
• Enthusiastic about his/her own professional development
We reserve the right to interview and appoint prior to the closing date of the advertisement.
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 Royal Alexandra and Albert School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 7 to 18
- Education phase
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- School size
- 1055 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 7 to 18
- Ofsted report
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School location
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