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Teacher of English

Prince Henry's High School, Evesham, Worcestershire, WR11 4QH

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• Job start date

  1 January 2025

• Closing date

  18 October 2024 at 9am

• Date listed

  8 October 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, part time: The school's normal working day is from 9am to 3.35pm, Monday to Friday
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: M2 to UPS3

What skills and experience we're looking for

• Will suit an early career or experienced teacher
• Ability to teach English Language and English Literature to GCSE
• Ability to teach English Language and/or English Literature to A Level would be advantageous
• Although full-time is preferred, part-time working may be available within a range of 0.6 to 1.0 full-time equivalent
• Right to work in the UK. Please note we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for international candidates.

What the school offers its staff

• Opportunity to become involved in a wide range of extra-curricular activities, including overseas trips; Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme; sport, music & performing arts
• Wide range of career development opportunities through the Prince Henry's Teaching School Hub
• High quality and pleasant teaching environment in a school that has benefited from £9m of capital investment since 2013
• Cycle to Work Scheme (salary sacrifice)
• Electric Vehicle Leasing Scheme (salary sacrifice)

Further details about the role

In the English Department we believe that an important aspect of our role is to develop every student’s sense of self-worth and, by celebrating and educating about diversity, to promote the importance of understanding and respecting all members of society, their personal experiences, and their beliefs. We promote a love and a respect of language and literature across all year groups to ensure students’ lives are enriched through a diverse and varied study of texts.

Commitment to safeguarding

Prince Henry's High School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all shortlisted candidates.

The school will also conduct an online search on all shortlisted candidates which may help identify any incidents or issues that have happened, and are publicly available online, which the school might want to explore with you at interview.

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About Prince Henry's High School

• School type: Academy, ages 13 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1293 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 13 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Prince Henry's High School website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: secretary@princehenrys.worcs.sch.uk
• Phone number: 01386 765588
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/prince-henry-s-high-school (opens in new tab)

Prince Henry's is a popular and over-subscribed school in the picturesque Worcestershire market town of Evesham, with approximately 1,300 students, including a large Sixth Form of 330 students. It has been consistently judged outstanding by Ofsted, most recently in March 2024.

Among its many accreditations, the school holds the National SMSCD Gold Award, the Career Mark, the NACE Challenge Award, Music Mark, Artsmark Gold, School Games Platinum Award and is a Centre of Excellence for the Inclusion Quality Mark. It is also a Trauma Informed School.

Having been a Teaching School since 2014, in 2021 it became the Teaching School Hub for the WM1 area of Wychavon, Worcester, Wyre Forest, Malvern Hills and Herefordshire, with Teaching School Hub accreditation being re-accredited for a further four years in 2024.

Since 2013, the school has benefited from a capital investment programme of £10 million, which has seen the construction of a 14-classroom building to house English and Modern Foreign Languages, a new £3.5m classroom block for Art, DT and Food Technology, the complete modernisation and refurbishment of Science and our Sixth Form Centre, the installation of a 3G football pitch, as well as significant improvements to all other curriculum areas.

Arranging a visit to Prince Henry's High School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email secretary@princehenrys.worcs.sch.uk.

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