Teacher of English
Gravesend Grammar School, Gravesend, Kent, DA12 2PR17 days remaining to apply
Start date details
1st September 2026
Closing date
26 February 2026 at 9am
Date listed
9 February 2026
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subject
- English
Working pattern
- Part time, full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £32,916.00 - £51,048.00 Annually (FTE) MPS/UPS depending on experience (1.0 FTE)
Teacher of English job summary
Teacher of English
Full time/ Part time considered
Salary: MPS/UPS depending on experience
Required to start: 1st September 2026
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a candidate of exceptional ability to join our English Department as a Teacher of Key stage 3-5 English in this over-subscribed and successful selective school.
The school has an existing reputation for high quality education with a relentless focus upon high expectations and aspirations. We are a friendly, dynamic and innovative school and pride ourselves on our commitment to ensuring student progress through high quality teaching and learning provision for all. The successful applicant will share these values and play an active part in delivering on this commitment.
This role requires a strong understanding of how to engage, support and encourage students in order to achieve high standards. You will play a key role in supporting the corporate responsibility for the well-being, education and discipline of all students by: following designated programmes of study, carrying out necessary assessments, maintaining discipline in accordance with school policies, working closely with other teachers in the same curriculum area and engaging in continuous professional development in the relevant areas.
We believe that the study of English and Literature should provide our students with both an independence of mind, and the essential communication skills necessary in their future lives. In the future, we see ourselves taking the department and the students forward, both in terms of attainment and results, extra-curricular activities, innovation and challenge, and also in developing those softer skills within our students that the study of English and Literature allows us to explore.
To achieve this, we are looking for a teacher who:
- Has the ability to demand respect from others
- Can be creative, flexible and innovative
- Be encouraging, supportive and positive in the development of students.
- A readiness to reflect on, evaluate and improve practice and to hold themselves and others to account
- Has a high level of integrity, honesty and fairness
- Has the ability to initiate and manage change
- An ability to demonstrate enthusiasm and sensitivity
- Ability to build and sustain effective working relationships with a range of stakeholders
Why work at Gravesend Grammar? Some of our Trust benefits include:
- Free access to a wide range of outside support including counselling services, physiotherapy sessions and fitness classes
- Unlimited access for you and your family to 24/7 GP telephone consultations
- Eye test reimbursement
- Discounts including access to a blue light card
- Trust-wide commitment to your Continuous Professional Development (CPD)
For more information, please download the vacancy pack and apply online via MyNewTerm.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should a suitable candidate apply.
Aletheia Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all applicants.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020). This means that certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’ and do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974
Further information about the job
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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Gravesend Grammar School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 1493 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Gravesend Grammar School website
Gravesend Grammar School is an 11-18 selective boys grammar school with girls admitted to the Sixth Form. The most recent Ofsted Inspection (June 2015) judged the School as ‘Outstanding’.
We became an Academy on 1st August 2011 as part of The Decus Educational Trust (TDET).
The school is currently going through a period of expansion. We have built a 10 million pound facility to accommodate the additional students. We will continue to rise year on year until we admit 1500 students (7 forms of entry). This is a really exciting time in the history of the school and has the potential to provide succession opportunities for colleagues that want to progress in their careers.
We have a committed staff who provide opportunity and challenge in a caring environment and strive to ensure the students achieve the very best they can at all times. We also have strong working partnerships with parents, governors and the local community.
We are served by excellent transport links; by road the A2 and M25, and by rail Gravesend train station (on the HS1 line) is a short walk from the School and Ebbsfleet International train station is only a 10 minute drive. We also have the opportunity for on-site staff accommodation.
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