Teacher of English (maternity cover)

Hilbre High School, Wirral, Merseyside, CH48 6EQ

23 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  February/March 2025

• Closing date

  13 January 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  17 December 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
  • Suitable for early career teachers
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
• Subject: English
• Working pattern: Full time: Full time
• Contract type: Fixed term - February/March 2025 until postholder returns - Maternity or parental leave cover
• Pay scale: MPS/UPS

What skills and experience we're looking for

Essential

• Teaching English to at least GCSE Level.
• A proven track record as a good/outstanding classroom teacher.
• A proven track record of high standards of achievement.
• The ability to use data effectively to track progress, set targets and implement appropriate intervention strategies.
• Experience as a Form Tutor.

Desirable

• Experience of teaching within an 11-18 school.

Essential

• Sound knowledge of the English curriculum.
• Excellent knowledge of a wide range of pedagogic approaches.
• Good understanding of the assessment processes for English and how to use these to support planning and raise student achievement.
• Excellent knowledge and understanding of strategies for promoting good relationships with students and effective behaviour management techniques.
• Confident use of ICT.
• A commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people.

What the school offers its staff

In our most recent Ofsted inspection, in October 2021, we maintained our status as a ‘good’ school. We offer a friendly, supportive working environment, which values talented, committed staff and offers excellent professional development opportunities.

Flexible working opportunities

We are highly committed to managing teacher workload and offer a fortnightly home-based PPA session to all teaching staff.

Commitment to safeguarding

Safeguarding requirements:

Hilbre High School are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. This role has been assessed as working in regulated activity and is subject to an Enhanced DBS plus Children’s Barred List Check.

Any offer of employment will be subject to the receipt of a satisfactory Enhanced DBS disclosure with a child barred list check, receipt of references and successful completion of vetting procedures. It is an offence to apply for this role if candidates are barred from engaging in Regulated Activity relevant to children.

Applying for the job

Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to schooloffice@hilbre.wirral.sch.uk

CVs are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Hilbre High School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1201 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Hilbre High School website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: schooloffice@hilbre.wirral.sch.uk
• Phone number: 0151 625 5996
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/hilbre-high-school (opens in new tab)

Hilbre is a hard-working, lively academy where we believe that learning is an enjoyable and rewarding experience for all our students. We pride ourselves in recognising the varied and individual needs of our students and the broad, balanced education we provide, both in and outside the classroom, ensures our students can leave school with the skills, knowledge and understanding necessary to contribute confidently in today’s ever changing world.

At Hilbre High School Humanities College, you will find an 11-18 academy with just over one thousand students on roll. We are an academy which genuinely welcomes people into a partnership with a shared aim; to achieve the most we possibly can, both academically and socially for our students. We believe in success, progress, challenge and the enjoyment of learning and we constantly strive to ensure that all students achieve their very best.

Indeed, our pledge is to ensure that every student, whatever their starting point, makes rapid and sustained progress through effective, high quality teaching, in order to achieve the best outcomes within a caring and supportive environment. Our academy has the advantage of being coeducational. This enables us to deliver the full range of curriculum opportunities within a more natural and rounded environment for the social development of our students.

Arranging a visit to Hilbre High School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email schooloffice@hilbre.wirral.sch.uk.

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