Teacher of English
Coombeshead Academy, Newton Abbot, Devon, TQ12 1PTThis job expired on 31 March 2025 – see similar jobs
Start date details
1 September 2025
Closing date
31 March 2025 at 9am
Date listed
19 March 2025
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subject
- English
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- MPS/UPS
Teacher of English job summary
Required from September 2025 to 2 April 2026 to teach English at Coombeshead Academy (part of Education South West). The English department is well respected for its successful outcomes and dynamic, forward-looking approach to the subject. This is a 0.8FTE maternity cover role.
Please come for a visit and meet the Curriculum Team leader and members of the department. We welcome applications from ECTs as well as experienced teachers.
What we can offer you:
The opportunity to work in a school where all staff are viewed as part of the family.
Somewhere where leaders look after you as well as encourage you to pursue your aspirations and goals.
A school where the classroom and the learning experience for young people is the centre of everything that we do.
A school with a healthy view of the work life balance needed to be a great teacher.
Shared schemes of learning and pre-planned resources support workload reduction.
A sensible and balanced approach to marking and feedback in order to further reduce workload.
A clear behaviour policy which supports you to be able to teach with enthusiasm and freedom to a receptive audience.
Opportunities to share your practice and learn from others across the trust and the teaching school alliance.
Please. visit our school website - www.coombesheadacademy.org.uk . If you have any further questions please contact Mrs Battong, PA to the Headteacher via email - caroline.battong@educationsouthwest.org.uk . Applications must be made by submission of the My New Term application form on Vacancies - Coombeshead Academy . The closing date for applications is Monday 31 March at 9am with interviews likely to take place on Friday 4 April.
Education South West is committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriateto the post. This includes checks with past employers, an online check of publicly available information, including social media, and an enhanced disclosure via the Disclosure and Barring Service
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.
About Coombeshead Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 872 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Coombeshead Academy website
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