5 days remaining to apply

  • Job start date

    1 September 2025

  • Closing date

    30 April 2025 at 9am

  • Date listed

    9 April 2025

Job details

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Key stage

Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5

Subject

English

Working pattern

Full time: Full Time Permanent

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

31,650 to 49,084

Pay scale

M1 to UPS3

What skills and experience we're looking for

This is an exciting opportunity for a talented, enthusiastic and inspiring applicant to join the English department, in our fabulous, vibrant, growing secondary school that received ‘outstanding’ from Ofsted for personal development, behaviour and welfare in their last four inspections. The successful candidate needs to be passionate about English, wanting to inspire and make a difference in a school where student behaviour is considered to be outstanding. We require a talented and enthusiastic teacher to join a successful department to teach English up to and including KS5.

Please carefully read our job description, person specification and departmental overview. Also read our privacy notice for job applicants (on the recruitment page of our website). I would obviously encourage you to read our Ofsted report in detail and visit our informative website at https://www.christopherwhitehead.co.uk to develop an understanding of our ethos.


What the school offers its staff

You may like to visit my blog too at https://neilmorriscwlc.wordpress.com/. If you wish to apply, please complete the application form and include a letter detailing your previous educational experience and stating how you would make a difference in the classroom. Please email your completed forms to recruitment@cwlc.email. Please do not enclose a CV. The deadline for receipt of applications is 10.00am on Wednesday 30th April 2025. Interviews will be held on Tuesday 6th May 2025.

Commitment to safeguarding

Committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and young people. All staff, volunteers must share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment are subject to these checks
• childcare disqualification
• 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 convictions, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975. We will protect your personal data and we take this responsibility very seriously.

Applying for the job

Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to recruitment@cwlc.email

CVs are not accepted.

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Additional documents

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About Christopher Whitehead Language College

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 18
Education phase
Secondary
School size
1526 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 18
Ofsted report
View Ofsted report

Christopher Whitehead Language College, 11-18 school with 1,600 students, this very good school, described by Ofsted as:
‘An inclusive, tolerant and welcoming school. Leaders have high expectations.
They place a strong focus on academic achievement and pupils’ character development.’ We have built the lovely inclusive culture where all
children matter and where the school prides itself on making a difference – going the ‘extra mile’.

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