Teacher of English and Reading Lead

Our Lady and St Chad Catholic Academy, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, WV10 8BL

11 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  Required for January or September 2027

• Closing date

  19 October 2026 at 9am

• Date listed

  7 October 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher or lecturer
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Subject: English
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full time equivalent salary: £34,069.00 - £52,835.00 Annually (Actual)

Teacher of English and Reading Lead job summary

Required for January or September 2027

ECTs are welcome to apply

Teacher of English with Lead for Reading

A Teaching and Learning Responsibility (TLR 2) allowance is available for a suitably experienced candidate to lead Reading across the Academy.

Are you an enthusiastic English specialist ready to make a real impact? Our Lady & St Chad Catholic Academy is looking for a passionate, highly skilled Teacher of English with Lead for Reading to join a dynamic, supportive, and forward-thinking team.

Whether you are an ambitious teacher looking to step into subject leadership as Lead for Reading or an ECT seeking an empowering place to launch your career, you will find a thriving department, purpose-built teaching spaces, and a community ready to help you excel.

What You’ll Do

• Deliver Inspiring Lessons: Teach English across Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4, and Key Stage 5, fostering a genuine love for language and literature.

• Lead and Cultivate a Reading Culture: Take responsibility for leading, developing, and driving our whole-school reading strategy across all key stages—broadening vocabulary, deepening comprehension, and embedding a vibrant literacy culture across the Academy.

• Empower 21st-Century Learners: Use innovative, high-impact teaching strategies to raise achievement, build student confidence, and close attainment gaps.

• Elevate the Department: Play an active role in raising the profile of English and literacy across the Academy through leadership, dynamic lessons, extra-curricular opportunities, and collaborative curriculum design.

What We Offer in addition to the attractive employee benefits:

• TLR Allowance: A competitive Teaching and Learning Responsibility allowance for leading Reading across the school.

• Clear Career Progression: Tailored professional development, leadership mentorship, and dedicated support to build your leadership profile.

• A Vibrant Community: Fantastic young people, supportive colleagues, and a school culture built on warmth, high expectations, and mutual respect.

• on warmth, high expectations, and mutual respect.

Safeguarding Commitment

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All appointments are subject to an enhanced DBS check, satisfactory references, and pre-employment medical clearance. In line with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE), online searches will also be carried out for shortlisted candidates. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

St Gabriel the Archangel CMAT

The successful candidate will be part of St Gabriel the Archangel CMAT, a family of 64 schools, with access to Trust-wide expertise, collaboration, professional development and exciting opportunities to grow your career.

As the school grows stronger, so can your influence, with opportunities to contribute to excellence across our wider Trust.

One school. An immediate mission. 64 schools of future opportunity.

Make a difference now. Build something that lasts. Grow with us.

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 Our Lady and St Chad Catholic Academy

• Organisation type: Academy, Roman Catholic, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary school
• Size: 1222 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Our Lady and St Chad Catholic Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/our-lady-and-st-chad-catholic-academy

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