Teacher of English

The Laurus Trust, Cheadle, SK8 7JY

12 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2026

• Closing date

  9 February 2026 at 9am

• Date listed

  27 January 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
  • Suitable for early career teachers
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2, Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
• Subject: English
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: MPS/UPS: £31,650 - £49,084

Teacher of English job summary

“Once you learn to read you will be free forever.” - Fredrick Douglass

The Laurus Trust are currently looking for a dedicated Teacher of English who can contribute to our commitment to providing exceptional teaching and learning experiences, within our secondary Schools within Tameside, Stockport and Manchester. We are searching for an individual who possesses a genuine enthusiasm for teaching English, both within the classroom and beyond. This post is suitable for both experienced teachers or newly qualified teachers.

Our curriculum will endeavour to provide pupils with the powerful knowledge, which can too often be hidden from view. In doing so, our aim is to provide students with the knowledge to make the implicit, explicit. The powerful knowledge curriculum in English will be deliberately and coherently sequenced to take the shape of a chronological narrative; a narrative that aims to support pupils in making sense of both the literary canon and texts from across a rich, cultural spectrum of literature.

Our KS3 English curriculum is content-rich and chronologically structured, spanning the entire literary canon to help students develop a clear and connected understanding of our literary heritage. Students explore the evolution of ideas, themes and writer intentions across time and across cultures, enabling them to build a deep, sense‑making narrative of literary history. At KS4, our curriculum is designed to teach beyond the exam requirements. Both Language and Literature are taught through interleaving, retrieval practice and ongoing cycles of study, mirroring the demands of the linear GCSE courses. Our approach strengthens long-term memory, builds student confidence, and ensures a consistent routine that supports mastery of skills and knowledge. The Language curriculum follows a thematic structure, allowing purposeful links to be made with the texts, contexts and concepts studied in Literature. Alongside our KS3 and KS4 provision, we have a strong whole‑school commitment to developing students’ spoken language skills. Through our Oracy Curriculum, we ensure all students become effective, articulate speakers and listeners who know when to lead and when to participate.

For further details on the role, including key skills and experience required, please see the Job Description and Person Specification attached below.

To learn more about what the Trust offer, including our wide range of employee benefits and access to further professional learning, visit our Careers page. The Laurus Trust recognises the importance of employees' work/life balance. A better work-life balance can increase staff motivation, reduce employee stress, improve performance and productivity and make employment more accessible for more people. Where it is possible and practical, we will accommodate flexible arrangements from day 1, which may involve job sharing, part-time working, bespoke timetabling or a nine-day fortnight.

If you would like to join our Laurus family in a rewarding role that changes the lives of our students by empowering them to become the best that they can be then we would love to hear from you.

To complete an application form please click ‘Fast Apply’. A full application must be submitted as CV’s will unfortunately not be accepted in line with our safer recruitment process.

We reserve the right to interview prior to the closing date.

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.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

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 will not be accepted for this application.

About The Laurus Trust

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• Website: The Laurus Trust website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-laurus-trust

The Laurus Trust is a Multi-Academy Trust (MAT), committed to providing exceptional academic education to its family of schools across Stockport, Manchester, Tameside, and Cheshire East. Schools under the Laurus Trust consistently achieve outstanding results through a relentless pursuit of excellence and a dedication to student success.

Cheadle Hulme High School is the founding school of the Laurus Trust and was rated ‘Outstanding’ in the school’s last inspection and regularly features in the The Times and The Sunday Times Parent Power listing. The Trust’s commitment to excellence is evident not only at its founding school, but also in the outstanding achievements of Laurus Ryecroft, Laurus Cheadle Hulme, Didsbury High School, and Gorsey Bank Primary School – all receiving the top rating from Ofsted in their most recent inspections.

The Laurus Trust is continually growing, managing a comprehensive network of four primary schools, six high schools, and four established Sixth Forms. Their commitment to growth continues in September 2024 with the opening of Crown Street Primary School, the first new primary school in Manchester City Centre in nearly two decades.

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