Teacher of English
St Richard's Catholic College, Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, TN40 1SEThis job expired on 10 October 2025 – see similar jobs
Job start date
1 January 2026
Closing date
10 October 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
22 September 2025
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Subject
- English
Working pattern
- Full time (Can be done as a job share)
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- MPS/UPS
What skills and experience we're looking for
- Good honours degree in English
- Qualified Teacher Status
- Experience of successful teaching or teaching practice at KS3 and KS4
- A keen interest in developing the teaching of English
- Awareness of data protection, security and confidentiality
- Effective working relationships with young people of a range of abilities
- A sound knowledge and understanding of The National Curriculum Framework for English
- Knowledge of current trends in the teaching of English
- A very good understanding of how children learn
- A good understanding of assessment strategies
- An up-to-date knowledge and understanding of the professional duties and core standards of teachers
- Know or have an awareness of the assessment requirements and arrangements for GCSE English
- Have knowledge and understanding of how to use and adapt a range of teaching, learning and behaviour management strategies
- Be flexible, creative and adept at designing learning sequences within lessons and across lessons that are effective and consistently well-matched to learning objectives and the needs of learners
- Know how to make effective personalised provision for those you teach, and how to take practical account of diversity and promote equality and inclusion in your teaching
- Ability to work individually and as part of a team
- Ability to inspire and motivate pupils
- Hardworking with an enthusiastic and positive attitude
- Accuracy and attention to detail
- Willingness to share expertise and knowledge with others
- Willing to learn new skills and adapt existing ones
- Very good ICT skills
- Able to communicate clearly both verbally and in writing
- Teach challenging, engaging and motivating lessons
- Provide timely, accurate and effective feedback on learners’ attainment, progress and areas for development
- Understand how children and young people develop and how the progress, rate of development and wellbeing of learners are affected by a range of developmental, social, religious, ethnic, cultural and linguistic influences
- Manage learners’ behaviour constructively by establishing and maintaining a clear and positive framework for discipline
- Willing to support the department's extra-curricular/enrichment opportunities
What the school offers its staff
- We are a happy, thriving school community where respect for one another is key.
- Ours is a caring school. Visitors always comment on the calm, friendly and warm atmosphere of our school
- Facilities are excellent as well as vibrant.
- Behaviour for learning is outstanding as are many of our lessons. Hence, you will have the opportunity to teach, inspire and take risks with our fully engaged and committed learners.
- In spite of being a coastal school, we achieve strong outcomes for all groups of pupils.
- The staff are fantastic as are the pupils, parents and Governors.
- Our Professional Development Programme is excellent.
- Your induction to the school will be first class, ensuring that you feel valued and a key contributor very early on.
- Enrichment is a huge strength of the school.
- You will have the opportunity to support trips to Berlin, Austria, Rome, Barcelona, Aachen, Iceland, Normandy as well as a range of day trips.
- You will be supported to develop your career here at St Richard’s.
- We have a strong programme of staff wellbeing/social events such as yoga sessions, sports activities, country walks, sketchbook circle, Christmas cake baking and decorating, Christmas decorations making and staff choir.
- We offer sports activities, weekend walks for the family and other staff events. We have so many activities as people genuinely care about each other and organise activities for the benefit of their colleagues.
- Bexhill is a lovely place in which to live and work with Hastings, Eastbourne and Brighton on the doorstep.
- We are ‘human’. We do not expect perfection. We fully acknowledge that maintaining a first class school is about all pulling together, learning from each other and supporting one another with challenges. Everyone has their strengths and areas for development. We work as a team to ensure strong outcomes for all our pupils.
- We do not expect you to be Catholic. We have staff of different denominations and staff of no religion. As long as you feel happy and, above all, committed to support our Catholic ethos, we would warmly welcome your application.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
St Richard's is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of its pupils and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About St Richard's Catholic College
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, Roman Catholic, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 1033 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- St Richard's Catholic College website
- Email address
- recruitment@strichardscc.com
- Phone number
- 01424 731070
St Richard’s is a co-educational Catholic school offering an inclusive Christian education to pupils of all abilities from the ages of 11 to 16 years. It is our aim to encourage, support and develop every pupil in our care academically, socially and spiritually.
We have high academic standards at St Richard's, as our GCSE results consistently testify. In 2025, we secured outcomes that placed us as the highest attaining school in both East and West Sussex, yet we are not an 'exam factory' and whilst excellent teaching and learning is a cornerstone of our provision, it is our wider expectations and strength of our relationships which really underpin what we are about. For example, we expect our pupils to work hard, behave well, dress smartly and pursue excellence in all that they do inside and outside of the classroom. We also aim to provide a happy, caring and safe environment in which pupils can learn and develop into rounded, responsible and confident members of the community. We are, at heart, a family and a 'school which changes lives' (Catholic School Inspection, March 2025).
Our efforts have not gone unnoticed and we are well decorated by external agencies. We have a Prince’s Teaching Institute Art Mark, Leading Edge status, Fairtrade Fair Achiever Award status, an Artsmark Gold Award, a Space Education Quality Mark, Green Flag Eco-Schools Award and Investors in Careers at the highest level. We have also been awarded numerous times by the SSAT, currently holding Exceptional Education Awards, Engaging with Key Stakeholders, Climate for Learning, Leadership through Moral Purpose, Professional Development, Variety of Teaching Approaches, Exceptional Pupil Performance and Exceptional Pupil Progress. Perhaps most importantly, however, we were cited as 'the happiest school in Sussex' based on Ofsted feedback in Spring 2025 and our attendance rates are also the highest in the County: testament to the support we enjoy from our parent and carer body. When we were visited by the Catholic School Inspection team earlier this year, they found us to be 'outstanding' in every area against a new and very stringent framework. We have a proud history and legacy of providing a remarkable standard of education and care, yet we also look forward to our future with a vibrant energy and commitment to be even better, nearer and closer to God, which is what our patron, St. Richard instills in us through his example.
We would all agree that every child is unique and precious with different talents and aspirations, and our efforts are directed into ensuring that they feel both valued and challenged
Arranging a visit to St Richard's Catholic College
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@strichardscc.com.
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