Teacher of English
Parkside School, Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD13 5AD7 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
19 May 2025 at 9am
Date listed
2 May 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subject
- English
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- MPS / UPS
Teacher of English job summary
Do you want a job where you make a difference to the lives of children and young people?
Do you want to be inspired on a daily basis by your work?
Are you passionate about inclusion and committed to meeting the needs of all children?
Do you have the ability to engage, motivate and promote the learning and personal development of pupils?
Are you passionate about your subject and excited by teaching English?
It is a very exciting time to join Parkside School, a part of Wellspring Academy Trust, recently awarded the title of Multi Academy Trust of the year. We have a new Principal, new uniform and school curriculum and as such, we are on an exciting journey. We are looking for like-minded, motivated staff to join us and positively contribute to this journey. Wellspring Academy Trust is known for its inclusive practice and a focus on high challenge and high support. These values are matched by Parkside School. Details of Wellspring Academy Trust can be found at: https://wellspringacademytrust.co.uk/
‘We make a difference’ - if you have the same philosophy, this may be the job for you.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dedicated and enthusiastic person to join our team at Parkside as a Teacher of English. We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic, innovative, and committed teacher with high expectations of students and themselves. The successful candidate will be capable of inspiring students of all abilities through their passion for the subject, delivering English at KS3 and KS4 and who is keen to create English lessons that are exciting and engaging to encourage all students to achieve their best.
You will be joining a committed team in a school with clear plans and an unwavering drive to further move the quality of teaching, learning and education forward. You will be well supported by the team, Head of Faculty and TLR holders. Wellspring Academy Trust and Parkside School believe in investing in our staff. We have a strong CPD offer and all new staff will receive a supportive induction programme. This post may equally be of interest to an ECT or a member of staff looking to gain experience before potential career progression.
If you are driven to ensure the highest possible standards of teaching and learning, progress and achievement, then we warmly invite you to apply and join our convivial team.
Our students are enthusiastic and enjoy interactive lessons from passionate teachers. They respond well to strong trusting relationships with staff. Parkside has a renewed focus on student development, both academically and in personal growth. This includes an approach to pastoral care through small group Coaching circles, introduced in September 2024, which include a mix of all year groups and which places a strong emphasis on building a sense of community, belonging and respect and understanding.
This would be a fantastic time to join the school, Trust and the English faculty. Our vision for Parkside School is that we should visibly and substantively impact the community we are embedded within. This impact should be important, meaningful and considerable. This means young people from Parkside should develop into well-rounded young people who know how to keep themselves safe. We want students to have a personal and specific hope for the future which they can articulate, believe in and share with others; students who can empathise, critique, protect, love, inspire, make, design, explore and understand; students who are willing to try things they have never done before, do things they don’t want to do and be willing to reinvent themselves to become the best that they can be.
As an employee of Wellspring Academy Trust, you will benefit from a range of employee perks which include Staff Offers and Discounts, a free will writing service, Community First Credit Union, Cycle to Work schemes and People Celebration Schemes.
We encourage any applicant to come and visit the school or to book an informal phone conversation about this role with the Head of Faculty, Lara Napier. Please feel free to contact her on lara.napier@parksideschool.net to arrange a suitable time.
If you are as excited by this challenge as we are and you think this might be the role for you, please apply by submitting a completed application form and covering letter, having taken note of the attachments, by 9.00am on Monday 19th May 2025.
Interviews for successfully shortlisted candidates will be undertaken during the week commencing 19th May
The School has adopted the principles of Safer Recruitment and will safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to do the same. Successful applicants will be required to undertake an enhanced criminal records check via the Disclosure and Barring Service. Parkside School is an Equal Opportunities Employer
Commitment to safeguarding
Wellspring Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils. All posts are offered subject to enhanced DBS checks. As this role involves working with children in regulated activity, please note that it is an offence to apply for the role if barred from engaging in regulated activity with children.
References will be requested and an online search carried out for shortlisted candidates, prior to interview. Further pre-employment checks, including prohibition from teaching, childcare disqualification and section 128 checks, if relevant for the role, will be completed for the successful candidate upon acceptance of the post.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About Parkside School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1144 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Parkside School website
Parkside School and locality
We want all of our schools to make a positive contribution to the community that they are embedded within. This impact should be meaningful, considerable and lasting.
We want the young people of Parkside school to have every available opportunity to develop into well-rounded citizens who are equipped to make a positive contribution and who know how to keep themselves safe. We want students to have passionate hopes for their future; hopes that they can articulate, believe in and make real. We want to develop a nurturing environment that develops students who can empathise, critique, protect, love, inspire, make, design, explore and understand; students who are willing to try things they have never tried before, do things they have never done before and who are willing to risk reimagining themselves as the very best version of what they can become.
Located in the picturesque village of Cullingworth, Parkside School is surrounded by rolling hills and dramatic countryside.
The village, three miles south of Keighley and seven miles west of central Bradford, is not only popular with commuters but also with tourists, walkers and cyclists who revel in some of the country’s most glorious scenery.
The locality is steeped in history; the Brontë Parsonage Museum and its famous literary collections lie less than five miles east.
Also on the doorstep is the Saltaire World Heritage Site; a Victorian model village that is home to Salts Mill, which itself boasts striking architecture, eateries and shopping.
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