Teacher of English & Media Studies (Maternity Cover)
St Mark's West Essex Catholic School, Harlow, Essex, CM18 6AA14 days remaining to apply
Job start date
4 January 2027
Closing date
19 October 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
5 October 2026
Job details
Job role
- Teacher or lecturer
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Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Subjects
- English, Media studies
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Fixed term - 12 months - Maternity or parental leave cover
Full time equivalent salary
- TMS/UPS
What skills and experience we're looking for
GENERAL RESPONSIBILITIES – To comply with the Teachers’ Standards, as set out
CURRICULUM
- Preparing, teaching and evaluating lessons throughout an agreed age and ability range in accordance with statutory requirements, school aims and objectives, and policies and Curriculum Area schemes of work.
- Using a range of teaching and learning strategies and resources so that individual pupils have access to the curriculum.
- Contributing to the teaching of cross-curricular themes, skills and dimensions.
PUPILS
- Being familiar with and supporting all school policies, especially those on behaviour, discipline, pupil welfare and Health and Safety. Communicating problems of a pastoral nature to the form tutor in the first instance.
- Ensuring that pupils use equipment safely.
- Displaying pupils’ work and maintaining a safe, tidy and stimulating work environment.
- Liaising with the Learning Support Co-ordinator and the form tutor over pupils with Special Educational Needs and modifying teaching accordingly.
- Ensuring that targets outlined in a pupil’s individual educational plan are pursued.
- Liaising with and clarifying the role of any support teacher attached to the class.
- Promoting the use of the library and other learning resources.
- Keeping a record of pupil attendance at, and punctuality to, lessons and reporting any notable absence to the form tutor.
- Ensuring that homework is set in line with school policy, recorded on Talaxy, and regularly marked and that record of marks are maintained.
- Ensuring that the reward and behaviour systems are used.
- Setting and maintaining high standards of pupil work in the classroom.
ASSESSMENT
- Assessing pupils’ work in accordance with statutory requirements and school policy. Maintaining a record of pupils’ attainments. Using Assessments to diagnose pupils’ individual strengths and weaknesses and planning subsequent teaching accordingly.
- Writing reports on pupils and attending meetings with parents.
- Setting and marking internal examinations.
- Ensuring that external examination requirements are satisfied.
- Recommending individual pupils for particular examination courses.
SCHOOL DUTIES
- Undertaking duties before school, at break, and after school on a rota basis.
GENERAL
- Undertaking reasonable care of the school’s resources and accounting for any resources used.
- Attending meetings as directed and assisting in planning and evaluation.
- Setting cover work when absent if it is at all possible.
- Liaising with a reviewer and more senior staff over career and professional development.
- Reporting anything that could endanger or threaten the health and safety of pupils or staff to the Head of Learning Area.
FORM TUTOR
- Offering care and support to pupils in all aspects of their school life and preparing them for adult life, developing a knowledge of each pupil as an individual, and enabling pupils to play an active role in all aspects of the school’s tutorial programme.
- Completing attendance registers at the beginning of morning and afternoon school.
- Recording and monitoring punctuality records and referring persistent lateness to the Head of Year.
- Attending assemblies and accompanying tutor groups to assemblies to ensure they arrive in an orderly manner.
- Guiding tutor groups to produce at least one assembly per year.
- Referring any concerns to the Head of Year and subject staff.
- Completing the tutor’s report in accordance with the guidelines on report writing.
- Checking uniform and referring any problems to the Head of Year.
- Preparing form representatives for council meetings and supervising the feedback of information from these meetings.
- Keeping records of pupils’ progress, achievements and responsibilities.
- Attending meetings of Form Tutors as directed.
- Ensuring form notice boards are updated and ensuring that the form base is tidy at the end of all tutor periods and registrations.
- Being available to discuss pupils’ concerns with them.
- Referring all pertinent information to the Head of Year, particularly when required for reports or references.
- Encouraging pupils to participate in extra-curricular activities and organising their participation in inter-form activities.
- Acting as a first point of liaison with parents, in consultation with the Head of Year.
What the school offers its staff
We are looking for professionals with:
- Experience of teaching English with Media Studies to A Level
- The ability to work with and motivate staff and pupils.
- High expectations of pupil engagement, attainment, and behaviour
If you have the passion and drive to contribute to the future development of the English department at St Mark's, we look forward to hearing from you.
In return, the school can offer:
- An established and comprehensive induction programme for new staff
- A strong commitment to your professional development and career management - excellent CPD and leadership development at all levels
- A supportive environment in which your enthusiasm will be encouraged, nurtured, and rewarded.
- A working environment focused on Teaching and Learning and raising standards for all.
- A positive and stimulating school climate which values the contribution of all staff.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children Appointments are subject to satisfactory medical and enhanced DBS clearance and references
Applying for the job
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About St Mark's West Essex Catholic School
- Organisation type
- Academy, Roman Catholic, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- Size
- 1099 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- Email address
- admin@st-marks.essex.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01279421267
St Mark’s is a successful, well-ordered and caring Catholic school for approximately 1000 boys and girls aged from eleven to eighteen, situated in the heart of Harlow, Essex.
We are committed to the highest level of achievement for pupils of all abilities, and we recognise that there are no limits to a child’s potential. We aim to inspire all our pupils to achieve their best through "belonging, engaging and succeeding together". We believe in treating each pupil as an individual and valuing each person’s unique talents. Our curriculum has been designed to offer choice and to nurture all talents and abilities.
Our school was rated “good” by Ofsted at our inspection of April 2023 and “outstanding” in our Section 48 Inspection in November 2018.
St Mark’s prides itself on its exam results at both GCSE and A level, as well as the number of awards, achievements and accomplishments of our pupils in so many different aspects of their learning.
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