Teacher of English
The Westleigh School, Leigh, Lancashire, WN7 5NLThis job expired on 11 June 2023 – see similar jobs
Start date details
Sept 2023 or Jan 2024
Closing date
11 June 2023 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
1 June 2023
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
Contract type
- Fixed term - 12 months
Full-time equivalent salary
- M1 – U3 - £28,000- £43,685
Pay scale
- M1 – U3 - £28,000- £43,685
What skills and experience we're looking for
The 4 Day Week Campaign believes it would “dramatically improve the lives of teachers”. We are always looking for new ways to improve everyone’s work/life balance at The Westleigh School and we are excited to have been asked to be part of a trial of the 4-Day teaching week for staff whilst continuing to receive full-time pay, from September 2023.
We are seeking to appoint a creative, inspirational and dedicated classroom practitioners (1 permanent and 1 FTC) to join the English Faculty at this exciting time of growth. The role would suit an experienced teacher or an ECT and would provide an opportunity to play a pivotal role in the continued development of English within the school. Teaching and learning are at the heart of everything we do and our teachers are second to none in their pursuit of teaching excellence. We expect to appoint someone who can raise student achievement for all and the desire to continually update and challenge their teaching and learning skills.
Our ethos is ‘Aspiring and Achieving Together’ and the school vision is;
- Create a culture of respect where all members feel valued and included, encourage innovation, and strive for excellence in all endeavours.
- Provide students with outstanding pastoral support, guidance, and resources necessary to thrive academically, creatively, and personally.
- Deliver a rigorous and empowering curriculum with employability skills at the core, in order to prepare students for navigating an ever-changing world.
The Westleigh School enjoys a successful partnership with the Shaw Education Trust, which is a growing multi academy trust led by an Executive Leadership Team steeped in school leadership and improvement experience. Working with the Shaw Education Trust also allows colleagues to access a large range of well-established training opportunities and work alongside like-minded professionals across a range of schools.
What the school offers its staff
SHAW EDUCATION TRUST was established in 2014 and is sponsored by Shaw Trust and is a growing group of dynamically awesome academies providing education to children of all ages and abilities. Staff across our team of schools are dedicated to ensuring that every child has the opportunity to be successful, whatever their starting point in life. Unlike other MATs, we don’t enforce a curriculum for all our schools to follow. Instead, we support each individual school to offer a programme that enables our students to deepen their knowledge, develop their skills, sparks their imagination and fires their curiosity.
To achieve this, we pledge an unswerving commitment to improve, accelerate and enable ambitious life goals amongst all our students, and provide our schools with the support they need to deliver the highest possible quality of education. Every action we take as a Trust is guided by our core values, with the best interest of our students and staff members at the heart of everything we do.
Colleagues within the Trust benefit from:
- Access to a full range of courses both in-house and professionally accredited. These courses include all of the National Professional Qualifications – NPQH, NPQSL, NPQML.
- High quality subject and thematic networks across the Trust and the region.
- Experienced leadership and subject-specific support.
- Guidance from former HMIs and serving Ofsted Inspectors within the Trust.
- Access to the Trust’s Teaching School, Research School, Institute of Education and SCITT.
- Opportunities to work with different schools within the Trust as a Professional Advocate.
- Participating in peer reviews.
- Access to a suite of online courses.
- Placement projects within our family of schools.
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.
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About The Westleigh School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 917 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- natalie.turner@shaw-education.org.uk
The Westleigh School is a secondary school providing education to pupils aged 11 to 16, as well as providing an adult education centre to members of the local community.
The school motto of “Aspiring and Achieving Together” accurately captures the shared vision which ensures that leaders at all levels are developing their ability to communicate high expectations.
At The Westleigh School, an unrelenting focus is placed on the quality of teaching above all else so that the pupils are able to grow in a continuously developing learning environment.
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