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  • Start date details

    Easter 2025 or September 2025

  • Closing date

    3 February 2025 at 9am

  • Date listed

    16 January 2025

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 (Can be done as a job share): 32.5 hours per week

Contract type

Permanent

Pay scale

MPS/UPS

What skills and experience we're looking for

Are you an English teacher with a passion for your subject? Do you believe that all students are capable of achieving their potential? Would you like to work in a truly diverse and inclusive school community where both student and professional development are held as core values?

We wish to appoint a teacher of English to teach across the 11-18 age range with the capacity to deliver the curriculum to the highest standard. The successful candidate will be a good practitioner, with great enthusiasm, a ‘can do’ mentality and an ability to achieve the best possible outcomes for our students.

What the school offers its staff

Lawnswood School offers a professional challenge and a rewarding opportunity to work within a highly collaborative English Department that is passionate about the progress and development of every student.

Further details about the role

We promote diversity and want a workforce which reflects the population of Leeds.

For further information, please download the job description and person specification below and send your completed application with a covering letter (no more than two sides of A4) to Mrs J Bell, Headteacher by email to Jennie Hill, PA to the Headteacher, on hr@elawnswood.co.uk or by post to Lawnswood School, Ring Road, West Park, Leeds LS16 5AG.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Appointments will be subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. If shortlisted, you will be required to disclose relevant information regarding criminal history and an online search will be conducted. This includes only information publicly available online.

Applying for the job

Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to hr@elawnswood.co.uk

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About Lawnswood School

School type
Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 18
Education phase
Secondary
School size
1441 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 18
Email address
hr@elawnswood.co.uk
Phone number
0113 284 4020

Again, rated a 'Good' school by Ofsted in September 2023, Lawnswood School is set in North Leeds and has a wide catchment area and a diverse intake of students from cultural backgrounds and socio-economic groups.
Under stable leadership and a supportive and inspiring leadership team, Lawnswood School offers opportunities for professional challenge and personal development.

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