Teacher of English
Boston Spa Academy, Wetherby, West Yorkshire, LS23 6RWThis job expired on 20 March 2025
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
20 March 2025 at 9am
Date listed
7 March 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teacher or lecturer
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Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Subject
- English
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- MPR/UPR
What skills and experience we're looking for
Boston Spa Academy are seeking to recruit an inspirational colleague to the role of Teacher of English. This role is of great importance to our work as an Academy. The successful candidate will be responsible for teaching and inspiring students across Key Stage 3 and 4 to achieve their full potential. This opportunity is open to both ECTs and Experienced Teachers.
The ideal applicant will have:
- A successful placement(s), teaching at KS3 & KS4 (applicants currently in training)
or:
- A successful record of teaching with very good exam results at one or more of KS3 & KS4 (applicants who already have gained QTS
- A detailed knowledge of current developments in education including the use of the Pupil Premium
- The ability to put vision into practice.
What the school offers its staff
As a trust, we want to ensure that professionals at every stage in their career have the opportunity to enjoy expert support and training. We are pleased to offer a generous benefits package to our team – as we work together to create a rewarding future for all including:
- Membership to a local government pension scheme.
- A commitment to continued investment in our professionals, supporting every member of staff throughout their career in the trust.
- Access to an Employee Assistance Programme which provides confidential professional advice and support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
- Discounts and online offers at major high street/online retailers.
- Specsavers scheme.
- £2k Cycle to work scheme.
Further information about the job
About us:
At Boston Spa Academy, our central focus is to empower our students to develop their character to help them to grow into confident, kind and well-mannered young adults. Our school cultivates an environment that allows our students to explore what excites them and fulfil their ambitions, both inside and outside the classroom. In doing so, it equips students to secure the ‘Gift of Choice’ and impact positively on the wider society.
Our community is built on kindness, respect, hard work and aspiration and our enabler to achieving this are the academy core values – Participation, Purpose, Positivity, Professionalism and Principled. Developed in partnership with our students, staff body, parents/carers and governors, we are proud that the core values permeate through our academy, in all aspects of our work and day-to-day life. Through our core values, our vision is that Boston Spa Academy will positively impact the lives of those that attend our academy, now and long after they leave us.
Students at Boston Spa Academy achieve exceptionally well at both GCSE and A Level. With a GCSE Progress 8 score which has been ‘Well Above Average’ for the past 3 academic years, students make excellent progress within their academic studies and progress to the Post-16 destination of their choice. The majority of our students choose to remain at our own sixth form provision, Elliott Hudson College Boston Spa. We are a popular and growing sixth form with a culture of academic success based on our vision of ‘Character; Ambition; Excellence’.
The English department at Boston Spa Academy consists of 12 teachers, led by our Director of English. We also have a Deputy Director of English, and two other Assistant Leaders of English. Students achieve well at both GCSE and A Level, with strong uptake for both English Language and English Literature in terms of student numbers at Post-16. We are seeking a dynamic teacher to join the department who has a passion for English Literature and who shares our commitment to providing exceptional teaching to students who choose to study this subject at A Level.
At Boston Spa Academy, we are proud that, in our recent Ofsted inspection graded “Outstanding”, it was commented that ‘staff feel valued and are proud to be members of the school’. The report also recognises that ‘leaders are highly supportive’ and ‘proactively seek to manage workload and support the well-being of staff’. As well as feeling part of a community with a common purpose, our professional body also benefits from outstanding CPD and support which is personalised to your particular needs and experience.
GORSE have established a long-standing culture of excellence where ‘high challenge, high support’ is commonplace. Our trust will be made up of 15 establishments by September 2025.In addition to this, we also operate GORSE SCITT and Leeds Teaching School Hub, important establishments in their own right. Ensuring that each element of the trust, including the central team, performs at its best to ensure all children, especially those whose who are disadvantaged, have the opportunity to secure the Gift of Choice, is the central mission of GORSE
If you would like to know more about our academy please visit our website at www.bostonspa.leeds.sch.uk
How to Apply:
If you’re as excited about this opportunity as we are, a Job Description, Person Specification and application form are available to download from this page, by email to Susie.Dubber@bostonspa.leeds.sch.ukor by telephone on 01937 846630.
Please note if you submit an electronic application, we will not require a hard copy. CVs are not accepted.
Commitment to safeguarding
We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to full employment checks, including an enhanced DBS disclosure and barring service check. We promote diversity and aim to establish a workforce that reflects the population of Leeds.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Boston Spa Academy
- Organisation type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- Size
- 1498 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- Website
- Boston Spa Academy website
- Email address
- susie.dubber@bostonspa.leeds.sch.uk
Boston Spa Academy in Boston Spa, Wetherby, West Yorkshire, is a mixed, secondary school for children aged 11-18. The school, which opened in 1973, has around 1,430 students of which 190 attend the growing sixth form. In September 2018, Boston Spa Academy officially joined the highly successful and nationally renowned GORSE trust. As a direct impact of working with colleagues at TGAT the academy has moved from being a school with average performance to one which is now well above the national average. Boston Spa Academy is now amongst the highest performing schools in Leeds, the Yorkshire and Humber region and the country.
At Boston Spa Academy, we are proud that, in our recent Ofsted inspection graded “Outstanding”, it was commented that ‘staff feel valued and are proud to be members of the school’. The report also recognises that ‘leaders are highly supportive’ and ‘proactively seek to manage workload and support the well-being of staff’. As well as feeling part of a community with a common purpose, our professional body also benefits from outstanding CPD and support which is personalised to your particular needs and experience.
Our Vision and Values: Shaping Character; Cultivating Ambition
At Boston Spa Academy, we truly value the holistic development of our students as part of our vision to be ‘shaping character; cultivating ambition’. We support students in developing the character traits required to be well-rounded individuals and for them to be prepared with the skills, habits and qualifications required for success in their future careers.
Our community is built on kindness, respect, hard work and aspiration and our enabler to achieving this are the ‘core values’ to which we hold dear and permeate through all that we do at the academy:
· Purpose
· Positivity
· Principled
· Participation
· Professionalism
As part of The GORSE Academies Trust, Boston Spa Academy is in the vanguard of educational developments in Leeds, Yorkshire and on a national level. As a school community, we strive to deliver an exceptional standard of education.
Our Enrichment++ provision is designed to encourage young people to learn beyond the classroom and includes opportunities to take part in sport, art, languages, humanities, science, outdoor pursuits and a range of volunteering and charitable work at local, national and international levels. Our nationally renowned Rowing Programme provides student with the opportunity to compete at a national level against some of the elite young athletes in the UK.
Cultural visits and an expedition programme have seen pupils visit countries from European countries to as far afield as Trinidad and Singapore.
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