Teacher of English with possibility of Year Lead (Head of Year) or Literacy Lead

Bradford Forster Academy, Bradford, BD4 8RG

Deadline is tomorrow

• Start date details

  September 2024

• Closing date

  20 May 2024 at 10am

• Date listed

  3 May 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
  • Suitable for early career teachers
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Subject: English
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: MPS/UPS

Teacher of English with possibility of Year Lead (Head of Year) or Literacy Lead job summary

Teacher of English

Salary Band MPS/UPS

Possibility of TLR for Year Leader (Head of Year), or Whole School Literacy Lead

Full time Permanent

Start Date: September 2024

Bradford Forster Academy is an 11-16 Church of England secondary Academy and part of the Bradford Diocesan Academies Trust (BDAT), a growing Christian Multi-Academy Trust based in Bradford. The Academy opened on 1 September 2015 and now has capacity for 1050 students on roll in years 7-11. The school is forward-thinking, providing high quality CPD and there is an exciting opportunity to work across a variety of growing diverse schools within the Trust.

This is a wonderful opportunity for a talented and ambitious professional to make a sustained and substantial contribution to the growth and development of the Academy. The role offers the successful candidate a challenge that will be both rewarding and fulfilling and will support you to achieve your own personal career goals and aspirations.

You should:

• Be an outstanding and experienced classroom practitioner

• Have a “Good” or better teaching record

• Have strong experience working with children in a secondary setting

• Be inspirational to colleagues and students – sharing best practice

• Have up to date experience and knowledge of teaching up to GCSE.

In return for your commitment, we can offer:

• An academy and senior leadership team that will allow you to be inspirational, proactive and play an active part in our school improvement journey to outstanding

• Tailored CPD with a strong commitment on developing individual career paths

• A stimulating, attractive, and welcoming learning environment

• A brand-new purpose-built building with state-of-the-art technology and resources

• An approach which supports and stimulates professional growth

Closing Date: 20th May 2024 9am

Interviews: 22nd May 2024

Commitment to safeguarding

‘Everyone working in or for our school service shares an objective to help keep
children and young people safe and promote each child’s welfare by
contributing to:
• providing a safe environment for children and young people to learn
and develop in our school setting, and
• identifying children and young people who are suffering or likely to
suffer significant harm, and taking appropriate action with the aim of
making sure they are kept safe both at home and in our school setting’

BFA is committed to safeguarding and promoting the wellbeing of all its students.

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About Bradford Forster Academy

• School type: Academy, Church of England, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 983 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Bradford Forster Academy website (opens in new tab)
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/bradford-forster-academy (opens in new tab)

Bradford Forster Academy, which opened in September 2015 as a new 11-16 Church of England Academy, as part of the new Bradford Diocesan Academies Trust. We currently have 1033 students on roll from years 7 to 11 and Summer 2020 saw our first cohort of students successfully completing their time with us and going on to take up a wide range of local and national Post-16 courses and positions.

Bradford Forster Academy is an exceptional school with high aspirations and ambition for our young people.

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