Teacher of English
Houstone School, Dunstable, LU5 5PXThis job expired on 12 December 2024 – see similar jobs
Start date details
Following notice period
Closing date
12 December 2024 at 10am
Date listed
24 October 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subject
- English
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £31,756.00 - £44,015.00 Annually (FTE) AST 1-6 £31,756-£44,015 dependent on experience
Teacher of English job summary
Teacher of English
We have an excellent opportunity for a talented and self-motivated Teacher of English to join our wonderful department. We are particularly searching for a teacher who is an excellent, reflective, and creative classroom practitioner with the ability to spread the enthusiasm for the subject beyond the classroom.
We are seeking an excellent classroom practitioner that is able to bring stimulating and engaging experiences for our students, challenging them to achieve beyond their expectations and supporting them to become lifelong learners.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a committed, friendly and professional team of teachers providing a transformational quality of education to the pupils in our thriving school. At Houstone, our values of aspiration, endeavour, and respect, underpinned by very high expectations and drive in everything that we do. We have a powerful culture which is warm but strict, based on clear routines, systems, and structures. As a result, our teachers enjoy their teaching with impeccable behaviour in lessons and hardworking, highly motivated pupils.
Joining Houstone School as a Teacher of English is a fantastic opportunity to be part of our story – providing transformational experiences for thousands of pupils, developing our staff to be the very best they can be, and influencing the wider system by demonstrating first-hand what is achievable
Key Duties
- Be able to develop, plan and deliver effective and high-quality learning experiences to all students
- Be an aspirational professional who is enthusiastic, influential, and committed to working in pursuit of success for the academy and its learners.
- To set high expectations for all pupils, to deepen their knowledge and understanding and to maximise their achievement.
- To assess pupils’ work systematically and use the results to inform future planning, teaching, and curricular development.
The successful candidate will
- Have qualified teacher status and experience delivering good English lessons.
- Willing and committed to developing and sharing outstanding teaching practice.
- Able to work in partnership with students, parents, staff, academy council and the wider Community.
- Have demonstrable commitment to inclusive teaching and learning.
- Be able to demonstrate the appropriate motivation to work with young people.
- Use data to inform target setting and planning.
Job specifics
Start date January 2025 or April 2025
Salary AST 1-6 £31,756 -£44,105 (dependent on experience)
Job Role Permanent , Full time
HOW TO APPLY
We welcome applications from ambitious and inspirational teachers who share our traditional approach and values of Respect, Honesty and High Expectations. To apply please fill in the application form and supporting statement illustrating how you meet the person specification for this role.
We welcome visits to the school at any time and would encourage you to apply. For a confidential discussion about the position please contact Nafisa Khan, Business Support Officer on 01582 377771 or email nkhan@houstoneschool.co.uk to arrange an appointment.
Safeguarding
We believe in the safeguarding and welfare of children and expect all staff to share this view’.
The Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service. We are an equal opportunities employer.
The Department for Education (DfE) has set out statutory guidance ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ for schools and colleges on safeguarding.
Safeguarding is defined in paragraph 4 as:
“Protecting children from maltreatment; preventing impairment of children’s health or development; ensuring that children grow up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care; and taking action to enable all children to have the best outcomes.”
The definition of 'children' includes everyone under the age of 18.
The Trust reserves the right to interview and appoint a suitable candidate before the deadline date.
Commitment to safeguarding
Safeguarding children enrolled at the School is of paramount importance, and we are fully committed to the protection and safe care of our pupils. The successful applicant will be required to undertake appropriate checks as well as providing proof of your right to work in the UK.
About Houstone School
- School type
- Free School, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 517 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Houstone School website (opens in new tab)
Houstone School opened in September 2022 and we are determined to make a positive difference to the educational landscape in Houghton Regis and the surrounding areas.
There are some key differences that we believe make Houstone School so distinctive.
Houstone School will have very strong standards of behaviour, a different approach to pupils with additional needs that believes that they can meet the heights of their peers, and aspects like longer school days that fit in with modern family life, alongside a real commitment to getting the curriculum, teaching and learning right.
Houstone School, shaped by the families and the educational teams who design it, has freedom to direct resources where they are most needed, and to ensure that our curriculum is truly aspirational.
We believe that our combination of firm discipline, very high expectations, an academic knowledge-based curriculum, and a humble approach to feedback means that we can go on to be one of the highest-achieving schools in the country. We really do want to be a ‘grammar school for all’.
Our ambition is that every single pupil will be able to attend university, and most will attend the most selective universities. We are ambitious to be the best school in the country.
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