Teacher of English - Part-Time (Up to 0.5 of FTE)

Europa School UK, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 3DZ

18 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  1st September 2025

• Closing date

  30 March 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  10 March 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
  • Suitable for early career teachers
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Subject: English
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £31,650.00 - £49,084.00 Annually (FTE)

Teacher of English - Part-Time (Up to 0.5 of FTE) job summary

The ideal candidate will have a strong passion for literature and language, committed to fostering an engaging learning environment that promotes critical thinking, creativity, and a love for reading and writing. The role involves teaching IB English language and literature across the MYP and DP curricula, ensuring effective delivery of key knowledge and skills to a diverse student body, and maintaining discipline. The candidate will help establish a positive and inclusive school ethos, implement best practice policies, and engage parents in the school community. Responsibilities include collaborating with the Deputy Heads of Secondary, providing regular feedback to the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) on student progress and whole-school achievements, and actively supporting the broad and balanced IB curriculum.

You would join a multinational and multilingual community of staff, committed to the students and furthering the bilingual and broad curriculum ethos of our unique state school. Europa is nestled in rural Oxfordshire but only 10 miles from central Oxford and less than 2.5 to Abingdon.

Qualifications:

• Essential: Teaching qualification, university degree in a related subject.

• Desirable: Experience with IB MYP and/or DP.

• Skills: Excellent communication, motivational, and ICT skills; strong knowledge of varied pedagogical practices and the ability to inspire critical thinking in students.

Personal Attributes:

• Enthusiastic, collaborative, and caring attitude.

• Resilience, creativity, flexibility, and inventiveness.

• Humour, warmth, and energy.

We offer:

A welcoming, multinational community of staff and students

A strong ethos of collaboration and creativity

A rewarding teaching environment with engaged and motivated learners

Teachers’ Pension and Employee Assistance Programme

Flexible compound PPA that can be completed off-site

Commitment to safeguarding

Europa School UK is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All staff must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and an Enhanced DBS (Disclosure and Barring) check.
We reserve the right to research applicants on social media platforms and the internet, and the Governing Board may take this information into consideration during the recruitment process.

Applying for the job

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Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Europa School UK

• School type: Free School, ages 4 to 19
• Education phase: Through
• School size: 1072 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Europa School UK website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/europa-school-uk

Europa School UK a UK state school offering a bilingual education from four to 18 culminating in the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme.

September 2017 saw ESUK open the Secondary School, the final stage of a phased opening which began in 2012 with key stage 1. We offer a multilingual and multicultural education, with primary children taught in English and also either German, French or Spanish via full immersion and humanities taught in the second language throughout the secondary phase. Other than language our emphasis is on science, well suited to the employment opportunities in Oxfordshire. Europa School inherits from its European School predecessor a history of preparing students for outstanding success at universities in the UK, throughout Europe and beyond.

The primary has three form entry and is consistently oversubscribed. We received a good rating from Ofsted.

The centrepiece of the Secondary School is the beautiful grade-II listed buildings of Culham College which has hosted a European School since 1978 and is in the process of receiving a multimillion pound facelift. The school is set in rural Oxfordshire but near Oxford and Abingdon. There is onsite parking and good cycle access.

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