Teacher of English
Horsforth School, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS18 5RF5 days remaining to apply
Start date details
April or September 2025
Closing date
20 January 2025 at 8am
Date listed
14 January 2025
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Skilled Worker visas can be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Subject
- English
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- ECT/MPS/UPS
What skills and experience we're looking for
Horsforth School is seeking to appoint a highly skilled and forward-thinking colleague to join our English team. We are a highly successful and dynamic department with a supportive and collaborative ethos. Right now we are looking for a teacher who has a real interest in helping us to fulfil our department intent – delivering a stimulating and challenging programme of study that unlocks every student’s full potential, not only for exam success, but to help them navigate the world around them with confidence and understanding.
Join us and you will be part of a fantastic English department with a strong team ethos that achieves consistently excellent GCSE and A Level results. We believe in working collaboratively, supporting each other to inspire students, at every level of ability, in order to foster an appreciation and enjoyment of English Literature and Language that goes beyond the classroom.
What the school offers its staff
At Horsforth School we believe in opportunity and achievement for all. If you work with us you will join a fantastic team in a high performing, creative and forward thinking school who believes in working collaboratively, sharing ideas and supporting each other to achieve great things.
In a recent OFSTED inspection we were rated as outstanding for Behaviour; this is shown throughout our consistently oversubscribed 11-19 school, which enjoys strong community and international links.
Horsforth School is no ordinary School, join us and you’ll see what we mean. No role in Horsforth School is ‘just a job’, you will become part of a team who work to support and develop our amazing students whilst giving you the opportunity to take ownership of your own career.
When joining our school you will also be given the opportunity to participate in activities outside of the classroom such as:
- Exracurricular activities
- Exciting trips and visits
- Amazing onsite catering
- Weekly discounted yoga sessions run onsite
- Free access to the onsite gym
- Bike to work scheme
- Access to childcare vouchers
- Dedicated investment in physical and mental wellbeing
- A buzzing and lively staffroom that includes a football team, weekly raffle and regular social activities.
Following a recent staff survey 100% of our staff said they were happy at Horsforth School, so why not become part of the team.
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@horsforthschool.org
CVs are not accepted.
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Horsforth School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1654 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Horsforth School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- recruitment@horsforthschool.org
- Phone number
- 01132265454
For our 1600 students, Horsforth School provides an engaging environment of discovery and growth. For our colleagues too, this setting offers some great benefits. Located in North-West Leeds, the school is just five miles from the city centre with its thriving retail, leisure and cultural facilities, yet on the edge of open countryside. York, Harrogate and the Yorkshire Dales are within easy reach.
GCSE and A Level results are consistently well above the national averages and in 2022, 2023 and 2024 the school had the best state school A Level results in the whole of Leeds. Horsforth School was also named one of the top 10 schools in the North in The Sunday Times Power Guide in 2024 and the Yorkshire Post voted the Sixth Form at Horsforth one of the top 3 Sixth Forms in Yorkshire.
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