8 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    January 2025

  • Closing date

    18 October 2024 at 9am

  • Date listed

    4 October 2024

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: 32.5 hours a week

Contract type

Permanent

Pay scale

MS/UPS

Additional allowances

possibility of a TLR for an exceptional candidate

What skills and experience we're looking for

About the role:

Our successful, established English department is looking for a new member with the passion and enthusiasm to make a positive impact on the young people at our school. We are reflective, supportive, and collaborative in our approach, using research to underpin our teaching and learning practices, and being mindful of staff workload in decisions particularly around shared planning and marking expectations.

Our perfect teaching candidate will:

  • Be committed to exceptional standards of teaching and learning.
  • Be able to motivate, challenge and inspire students to achieve their best.
  • Be able to establish and develop outstanding relationships with students and staff.
  • Help us to build on already good English results.
  • Contribute to our core vision and values as a Catholic school.

APPLICATION DEADLINE – Friday 18 October 2024 @ 9am

What the school offers its staff

Why Blessed William Howard?

  • A Christian community with a caring, secure and

disciplined environment.

  • A wide range of extra-curricular activities.
  • High academic standards.
  • A commitment to success for all.
  • Ongoing CPD for all staff.

“There is a warm atmosphere and the quality of relationships between all members of the school community are a particular strength. Pupils and staff are friendly, helpful, polite and welcoming to visitors.” Diocesan Section 48 Report

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

Apply for the job by following the link below.

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About Blessed William Howard Catholic School

School type
Academy, Roman Catholic, ages 11 to 18
Education phase
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School size
951 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 18
Phone number
01785244236

This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This position is subject to appropriate vetting procedures including a criminal record check from the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly CRB), which will require you to disclose details of all unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings, cautions and convictions as part of the recruitment process.

Arranging a visit to Blessed William Howard Catholic School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@bwh.staffs.sch.uk.

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