Teacher of English
West Hatch High School, Chigwell, Essex, IG7 5BTDeadline is today
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
5 February 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
23 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
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- M1-M6
What skills and experience we're looking for
Purpose Of The Job:
a. To implement policies as determined by the governing body and the Headteacher.
b. To implement and deliver an appropriate curriculum within designated subject area.
c. To assess and monitor progress the development of designated students.
d. To contribute to raising standards of student attainment and of achievement.
e. To fulfil professional duties outlined in the Teachers Conditions of Service.
Duties:
The Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Document specifies the general professional duties of a teacher. Whilst every effort has been made to explain the main duties and responsibilities of the post, each individual task undertaken may not be identified.
Particular Duties:
Under the overall direction of the Headteacher.
Teaching
- Have a secure and up to date knowledge and understanding of the concepts and skills necessary to teach specialist subjects.
- Plan to achieve progression in pupils learning in line with agreed expectations on targets.
- Set homework, mark and assess in line with school policies. Engage with school-wide learning initiatives.
- Ensure that high quality teaching and learning takes place in all allocated classes.
- Mark, assess, record and report on pupil achievement and maintain records as stated in the schools policy. Maintain accurate records and use assessment data to monitor progress, targets and take action (e.g. SEN, Gifted & Talented, praise and track under achievement).
- Contribute to the development of Schemes of Learning, School and Team policies as requested.
- Maintain a purposeful, orderly classroom environment including neat storage, learning centred display and by employing a range of behaviour management strategies. Monitor targets for pupils on report.
- Undertake specific duties within the Team as agreed with your line manager.
- Attend and contribute positively to meetings and professional development activities.
- Promote and contribute where possible to the school’s extra-curricular programme.
- Meet deadlines for reports, marking, submission of coursework and other assignments.
- Prepare pupils for examinations and take part in standardisation or moderating exercises as require by the Team or examination boards.
- Contribute to Citizenship teaching, special one day events and to the ethos of a Business and Enterprise Specialist School.
- Provide a welcoming environment to visitors and respond within 24 hours to telephone calls and within 7 days to written correspondence.
- Follow School Policy and support the Leadership Team in the effective operation of the school.
- Carry out the role of form tutor as required.
- All teachers at West Hatch may be required to deliver in subjects other than their specialism dependant upon the schools curriculum needs. The senior team will determine subjects taught dependent on the teachers individual experiences, skills and or qualifications.
What the school offers its staff
TEACHER OF ENGLISH
Required September 2025
We know great English teachers work too hard. We have lesson by lesson schemes of work for all years already planned and a sensible marking policy - we have your well-being as a priority. We work as a collegiate team, sharing resources, ideas and the texts we enjoy is all part of our work ethic. Our own teaching block and facilities enable a positive and productive working environment. We would love for you to join our dynamic team. The post is suitable for an experience practitioner or an ECT teacher.
We offer the following benefits:
- Newly built sports hall with fully fitted gym available for staff use,
- Swimming pool available for staff use,
- Banked cover scheme allowing staff to build time to take some term time days off,
- The Headteacher is passionate about staff workload and wellbeing and holds regular wellbeing meetings with staff,
- Minimal marking expectations,
- Additional CPD day to allow staff to mark mock internal examinations,
- All our teachers are provided with laptops and staff are welcome to work where and when they wish outside of school hours,
- We offer a significant number of paid development opportunities within departments and also across the school.
For more detailed information please see the additional information pack.
At West Hatch we believe in building strong relationships with students and going the extra mile to support students’ successes both in and outside of school.
The Governing Body is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share in the commitment. This appointment is subject to an enhanced DBS check and positive references.
Further details about this post and an Application Form are available by visiting our School website at www.westhatch.net
If you require additional information, please contact recruitment@westhatch.net
Closing date: Wednesday 5th February 2025 at 12pm
Early applications are encouraged as we will review applications as we receive them; and applicants may be contacted before the closing date.
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
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to recruitment@westhatch.net
CVs are not accepted.
About West Hatch High School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1505 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- West Hatch High School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- recruitment@westhatch.net
- Phone number
- 02085048216
West Hatch High School is a large, thriving, successful, heavily oversubscribed Academy. West Hatch is situated on the Central Line overlooking the Roding Valley with easy access to London.
A significant building programme has resulted in refurbishment in Science, a new English block, a Business and Enterprise Centre, new Music block, Maths, Drama and Dining Block, and a new Sixth form Centre. In addition there has been a new Sports Centre opened.
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