15 days remaining to apply

  • Earliest start date

    1 January 2025

  • Latest start date

    22 April 2025

  • Closing date

    6 December 2024 at 11:59pm

  • Date listed

    7 November 2024

Job details

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Key stage

Key stage 3, Key stage 4

Subject

English

Working pattern

Full time, part time

Contract type

Permanent

Pay scale

Main Pay Scale

What skills and experience we're looking for

Good honours degree in English

Qualified Teacher Status

Experience of successful teaching or teaching practice in English at KS3 and KS4

A keen interest in developing the teaching of English

Awareness of data protection, security and confidentiality

Effective working relationships with young people of a range of abilities


What the school offers its staff

Superb working conditions

  • All staff have a laptop
  • Generous non-contact time
  • Excellent staff facilities including free tea and coffee and microwave and fridge in the staffroom
  • Staff Welfare team which provides gifts, flowers and cards for leavers and staff with significant life events
  • Occasional social activities eg Friday after school football, staff choir, Christmas party, informal nights out
  • Child care voucher scheme
  • SLT doors are always open to listen to your concerns or share your successes
  • Duties: one break weekly and after-school 3 x a year for ten minutes
  • Excellent teaching facilities with most staff having their own classroom
  • Supportive of part-time working
  • Ensuring equality and diversity is a priority
  • Governors focused on Staff wellbeing
  • Free confidential counselling provided on request
  • Access to fitness suite before and after school

A thriving community where you can enjoy teaching and develop your career

  • Oversubscribed school with close links with the community and supportive parents/carers
  • Exemplary pupil behaviour which is always commented on by visitors
  • Extensive range of extra-curricular activities and enrichment
  • Workload is constantly being reviewed e.g. email protocols to reduce number of emails, assessment policy to reduce time spent marking
  • Lessons are taught by subject specialists
  • Many opportunities to work with pupils and participate and support local, national and international fundraising and awareness opportunities
  • Lay Chaplain available to offer confidential support
  • Mentors for staff where requested

A serious commitment to professional development

  • New staff induction programme – September - December
  • Appraisal that is focused on developing teachers’ careers in the areas that they wish
  • Bespoke professional development opportunities – Masters, NPQs, exam board training, twilight inset, opportunities to develop teaching and leadership, ECT and ECT + 1 programme
  • Whole school CPD focuses on teaching and learning and there are many opportunities for staff to become involved in the design and facilitation of Inset

Commitment to safeguarding

St Richard's is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of its pupils and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Applying for the job

Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to recruitment@strichardscc.com

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About St Richard's Catholic College

School type
Local authority maintained school, Roman Catholic, ages 11 to 16
Education phase
Secondary
School size
1026 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 16
Phone number
01424 731070

St Richard’s is a co-educational Catholic school offering an inclusive Christian education to pupils of all abilities from the ages of 11 to 16 years. It is our aim to encourage, support and develop every pupil in our care academically, socially and spiritually.

We have high academic standards at St Richard's, as our GCSE results consistently testify. We expect our pupils to work hard, behave well, dress smartly and pursue excellence in all that they do inside and outside of the classroom. We also aim to provide a happy, caring and safe environment in which pupils can learn and develop into rounded, responsible and confident members of the community.

Our efforts have not gone unnoticed. We are a Specialist Science School with High performing Specialist School status. We have a Prince’s Teaching Institute Art Mark, Leading Edge status, Fairtrade Fair Achiever Award status, an Artsmark Gold Award, a Space Education Quality Mark, Green Flag Eco-Schools Award and Investors in Careers at the highest level. Our interim Diocesan Inspection of March 2024 found that 'students articulated how much they valued the academic support and pastoral support that they have received during their time at St Richard's. We have also been awarded numerous times by the SSAT, currently holding Exceptional Education Awards, Engaging with Key Stakeholders, Climate for Learning, Leadership through Moral Purpose, Professional Development, Variety of Teaching Approaches, Exceptional Pupil Performance and, perhaps most pleasing, Exceptional Pupil Progress.

An OFSTED inspection in October 2021 graded the school outstanding in ‘Behaviour and Attitudes’, ‘Personal Development’ and ‘Leadership and Management’. Our results of 2024 place us, again, as the highest achieving school within the County and progress rates continue to be extremely strong, meaning the pupils at St Richard’s leave school with all the attributes they need to be successful and caring members of their communities.

All children are unique and precious individuals with different talents and aspirations, and our efforts are directed into ensuring that they feel both valued and challenged.

Arranging a visit to St Richard's Catholic College

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@strichardscc.com.

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