Teacher of English
Lord Williams's School, Thame, Oxfordshire, OX9 2AQThis job expired on 19 April 2023 – see similar jobs
Job start date
1 September 2023
Closing date
19 April 2023 at 9am
Date listed
21 March 2023
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Subject
- English
Working pattern
- Full time, part time: Full time Full time 32.5 hours FTE. Part time Flexible part-time hours
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £28,000 - £43,685
What skills and experience we're looking for
Education/Training
Essential: Graduate (in related discipline)
PGCE or other appropriate teacher training qualification
Desirable: English graduate
Relevant Experience
Essential: Teaching (or teaching practice) in a secondary school
Desirable: Teaching (or teaching practice) in a mixed 11-18 comprehensive school
Relevant Skills/Aptitudes:
Teaching and Learning
Essential: Good classroom teacher (potential to be excellent)
Desirable: Ability to teach A level
Appropriate ICT Skills
Safeguarding
Essential: Motivation to work with children and young people
Ability to form and maintain appropriate relationships and personal boundaries with
children and young people
Emotional resilience in working with challenging behaviours
Special Requirements
Essential: A team worker
Committed to high standards from all students
Love of English
Awareness of equal opportunities issues
What the school offers its staff
The school offers pay and conditions of service set out in the current School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Document and Teachers' Pension Scheme (TPS).
Lord Williams’s School recognises previous continuous service with any Local Authority (or one of its constituent authorities under the Local Government Act 1972) which runs up to the date on which employees start working with us.
To ease the transfer to Oxfordshire, Lord Williams’s School has its own on-site one bed-roomed flats and bedsits which are available on short-term lets.
Lord Williams’s School has a popular, purpose-built Day Nursery which cares for children aged from 6 weeks to 5 years. Based on the Oxford Road site, the Nursery accommodates 39 babies/children of staff and members of the local community. The Nursery is open during term time and half term breaks. School staff have priority for places.
Other benefits we offer include:
- Discounts at local gyms, swimming pools and spas
- Staff social events including parties, quiz nights, pop-up socials and pub trips
- Cycle to work scheme
- Staff sports - football, squash, cricket and walking weekends
- Free eye tests and flu vaccinations
- Employee Assistance programme
- Free on-site parking
- On-site catering facilities
- Discounts at local pubs, shops and car garages
- Staff recognition initiatives
- Long service awards
Commitment to safeguarding
Lord Williams’s School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
All successful candidates will be subject to Disclosure and Barring Service checks along with other relevant employment checks.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Lord Williams's School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 2276 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Lord Williams's School website
- Email address
- personnel@lordwilliams.oxon.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01844 210621
Lord Williams’s School is a thriving and popular comprehensive school serving the Thame community and its surrounding rural area. We are a split-site school, with Years 7 – 9 on the Lower School site at Towersey Road and Years 10 – 13 on the Upper School site at Oxford Road. We pay particular attention to each individual student by promoting their personal, social and educational development to enable all to achieve at the highest level possible. As a result of our continuing success, Lord Williams’s School is consistently oversubscribed.
We promote high quality teaching and learning. We attract talented, committed and conscientious teachers who produce stimulating and challenging learning activities helped by experienced support staff. Teamwork is a key feature of our work.
We are an inclusive school; we cater for all abilities and we provide access for all students. This is reflected in our work with the more able, with students with a range of learning and other difficulties and in our admissions policy for the Sixth Form.
The school has excellent teaching facilities on both sites with accommodation that is suited to the demands of the curriculum.
Arranging a visit to Lord Williams's School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email personnel@lordwilliams.oxon.sch.uk.
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