Teacher of English
Birkenhead Park School, Birkenhead, Merseyside, CH43 4UY10 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
28 April 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
7 April 2025
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Subject
- English
Working pattern
- Full time: 32.5 hours per week teaching contract, 1.0 FTE contract
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- MPS/UPS
What skills and experience we're looking for
You will be a champion of the subject, with keen subject expertise and a resolute determination to inspire a love of English and reading across the school. We always seek enthusiastic and adaptable individuals with excellent professional standards and good communication skills
We need a strong team player, who is proactive and driven to succeed. We always seek enthusiastic and adaptable individuals with excellent professional standards and good communication skills
You will be able to communicate effectively with colleagues, parents and any other external partners to support students development, and participate in meetings where required. Continuing your own professional development will be a key ambition for you to support the successful delivery of outstanding teachers and learning strategies.
The successful candidate will have a degree in English or an equivalent qualification, with QTS.
What the school offers its staff
- We offer excellent terms and conditions and the results of a recent staff survey found that:
98% of staff are proud to work at the school
93% of staff believe the school has improved
- We are a school that invests in all its staff through subject specific CPD and places great emphasis on its own programme of professional growth
- Pension scheme with generous contributions
- Health and wellbeing support
- Staff book club
- Cycle to work scheme
Commitment to safeguarding
The Birkenhead Park School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. Successful applicants will be subject
to an enhanced DBS check. Applications will only be considered when submitted on a fully completed application form. All applicants
will be considered on the basis of suitability for the post regardless of age, sex, race or disability.
Applying for the job
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to recruitment@birkenheadparkschool.com
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Birkenhead Park School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 746 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Birkenhead Park School website
- Email address
- recruitment@birkenheadparkschool.com
- Phone number
- 0151 652 1574
The Birkenhead Park School is a co-educational secondary school for children aged 11-16 and has over 700 students on roll. It is an exciting time to join us as we are on an ambitious journey of transformation and are looking for staff who are motivated to make a real make a difference to the community we serve.
The school is very proud of its caring commitment and innovative approach to educating the community of young people in the area, with award-winning programmes designed to help students in Year 7 – 11 thrive in a high school environment and open pathways to their future.
As part of the BePART Educational Trust established by nationally leading sixth form, Birkenhead Sixth Form College, the school encourages students to raise aspirations and unlock their true potential through adopting the school values which are intrinsic to everything we do, across all staff and students – Positivity, Ambition, Resilience and Thoughtfulness. Our values shape every interaction with have and are core to our success in nurturing both academic and personal success for every student.
We have recently been awarded a Silver Award by the Teacher Development Trust Network. This follows being awarded a Runner-Up prize in Educate North Awards’ Innovative and Creative Literacy accolade, acknowledging the school-wide Literacy Programme that has proven to have a significant effect in raising students’ reading ages and all-round academic ability.
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