Teacher of English
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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
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 (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
CVs are not accepted.
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
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
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Lawnswood School website (opens in new tab)
- 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.
School location
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