Teacher of English

Wickersley School and Sports College, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, S66 1JL

19 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  8 October 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  19 September 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
  • Suitable for early career teachers
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4
• Subject: English
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Fixed term - 12 Months - Maternity or parental leave cover
• Pay scale: MPS/UPS

What skills and experience we're looking for

We’re Wickersley Partnership Trust (WPT) - a multi-academy trust with eight primary schools, five secondary schools, one sixth form and one Central Team under our umbrella.We’re dotted across Rotherham, South Yorkshire with one school based in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire.At WPT, students are at the heart of everything we do, and we aim to send all children into an ever-changing world, able and qualified to play their full part in it. To give them the best educational experience possible, we recognise the importance of investing in and supporting our colleagues.And that starts with finding the right person for the job!

What the school offers its staff

Key Responsibilities Include:

• Planning and preparing courses and lessons.
• Teaching, according to their educational needs, the pupils assigned to you, including the
• Setting and marking of work carried out by the pupils in School and elsewhere.
• Assessing, recording and reporting on the development, progress and attainment of pupils in accordance with School policy.
• Setting, with the pupil and where possible the parent, short term targets for learning which take into account prior attainment.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Applying for the job

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CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Wickersley School and Sports College

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 2002 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Wickersley School and Sports College website
• Email address: recruitment@wickersleypt.org
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/wickersley-school-and-sports-college-rotherham

Wickersley School and Sports College is an oversubscribed school with more than 2100 students, and a yearly intake of 340. We consider ourselves to be a genuine comprehensive school, catering for students of a wide range of abilities, needs, aspirations and backgrounds.

We are 100% child centred and believe that all children have the right to an outstanding education, and will be encouraged, supported and pushed to achieve their personal best.

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