Teacher of English

Laurus Ryecroft, Manchester, M43 7LJ

12 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2026

• Closing date

  9 February 2026 at 9am

• Date listed

  28 January 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
  • Suitable for early career teachers
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Early years, Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
• Subject: English
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: MPS/UPS: £32,916 - £51,048

Teacher of English job summary

“Once you learn to read you will be free forever.” - Fredrick Douglass

Laurus Ryecroft is seeking a passionate Teacher of English to join their team and help maintain their high standards of exceptional teaching and learning. The ideal candidate will have a genuine enthusiasm for English, both inside and outside the classroom. This position is open to both experienced educators and newly qualified teachers.

Our curriculum will endeavour to provide pupils with the powerful knowledge, which can too often be hidden from view. In doing so, our aim is to provide students with the knowledge to make the implicit, explicit. The powerful knowledge curriculum in English will be deliberately and coherently sequenced to take the shape of a chronological narrative; a narrative that aims to support pupils in making sense of both the literary canon and texts from across a rich, cultural spectrum of literature.

Our KS3 English curriculum is content-rich and chronologically structured, spanning the entire literary canon to help students develop a clear and connected understanding of our literary heritage. Students explore the evolution of ideas, themes and writer intentions across time and across cultures, enabling them to build a deep, sense‑making narrative of literary history. At KS4, our curriculum is designed to teach beyond the exam requirements. Both Language and Literature are taught through interleaving, retrieval practice and ongoing cycles of study, mirroring the demands of the linear GCSE courses. Our approach strengthens long-term memory, builds student confidence, and ensures a consistent routine that supports mastery of skills and knowledge. The Language curriculum follows a thematic structure, allowing purposeful links to be made with the texts, contexts and concepts studied in Literature. Alongside our KS3 and KS4 provision, we have a strong whole‑school commitment to developing students’ spoken language skills. Through our Oracy Curriculum, we ensure all students become effective, articulate speakers and listeners who know when to lead and when to participate.

For further details on the role, including key skills and experience required, please see the Job Description and Person Specification attached below.

To learn more about what the Trust offer, including our wide range of employee benefits and access to further professional learning, visit our Careers page. The Laurus Trust recognises the importance of employees' work/life balance. A better work-life balance can increase staff motivation, reduce employee stress, improve performance and productivity and make employment more accessible for more people. Where it is possible and practical, we will accommodate flexible arrangements from day 1, which may involve job sharing, part-time working, bespoke timetabling or a nine-day fortnight.

If you would like to join our Laurus family in a rewarding role that changes the lives of our students by empowering them to become the best that they can be then we would love to hear from you.

To complete an application form please click ‘Fast Apply’. A full application must be submitted as CV’s will unfortunately not be accepted in line with our safer recruitment process.

We reserve the right to interview prior to the closing date.

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

The Laurus Trust is an inclusive Equal Employment Opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We welcome and encourage applications from all individuals regardless of individual background or circumstance.

As a Disability Confident Committed Employer, we strongly encourage applications from all persons with a known disability, and we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants, that meet the minimum criteria for a role, will be offered an interview and given the opportunity to demonstrate their skills.

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 Laurus Ryecroft

• School type: Free School, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 1142 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Laurus Ryecroft website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/laurus-ryecroft

Laurus Ryecroft is an oversubscribed secondary school for 11 to 18-year-old students in Tameside. The school is run by the Laurus Trust and replicates the outstanding education offered by the Trust’s founder school, Cheadle Hulme High School (CHHS), based in Stockport. CHHS is a hugely oversubscribed school and has been named as one of the UK’s top-performing schools in The Sunday Times, ranking as the 15th non-denominational comprehensive school in Manchester and the North West in the annual Parent Power Survey for 2022.

Laurus Ryecroft is a non-selective, non-denominational free school. It opened in September 2018, initially providing 150 Year 7 places in five forms with 30 students in each. A further seven Year 7 forms will be added each academic year until the school is at full capacity. In addition to this the school will have a sixth form of 300 students.

Laurus Ryecroft is a vibrant, warm and exciting place to work and learn in. We are proud to be ‘Unashamedly Academic’ and have the highest aspirations for all of our students. Our Cornerstones – Academic Aspiration; Culture Creativity and Rhetoric; Leadership and Service; Competition and Physical Endeavour – detail how we develop and prepare our students to acquire the knowledge and develop the qualities which will open the door to the future of their choice.

We are a true learning community and value the acquisition of knowledge and believe it to be truly empowering. Our teachers are passionate about their subject and the students they teach. We pride ourselves on the quality of our learning environment and on the relationships within school. Our state-of-the-art facilities are valued and respected by all members of our school community. Laurus Ryecroft is a place of mutual respect. Our students display excellent behaviour for learning and a true thirst for knowledge.

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