Teacher of English
St Mary's and St John's CofE School, London, NW4 4QR5 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
10 February 2025 at 3pm
Date listed
5 February 2025
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Subject
- English
Working pattern
- Full time, part time (Can be done as a job share): 36 hours, Monday to Friday
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- MPR/UPR
What skills and experience we're looking for
- Has a passion for their subject
- Is able to demonstrate a talent for motivating and enthusing young learners to achieve their best
- Has rigorous planning and preparation skills
- Has the ability to problem-solve and manage classroom behaviour effectively
- Can be resilient under pressure
- Is self-reflective and committed to developing as a teacher
- Has excellent written and verbal communication skills.
What the school offers its staff
- A high-trust, supportive culture focused on innovation and continuing professional development
- Access to a confidential coach who will support you to hone your teaching practice
- Research-led attitudes towards teaching and learning including a real focus on exploring new ideas and taking risks
- A robust secondary phase feedback policy which eliminates the need for hours of unnecessary marking
- A focus on collaborative working in high performing subject teams
- A unique opportunity to develop skills and expertise in an all-through setting
- Opportunities for career progression
- Two-week October Half Term
- We support flexible working and have family friendly policies
- In class feedback policy which eliminates retrospective marking
- Curriculum driven assessment rather than exam weeks encouraging staggered assessment marking
- Concise curriculum design and centralised planning and resourcing
- Consistent, whole school commitment to learning systems leading to excellent student behaviour
- High quality CPD with implementation time to embed training
- Established coaching culture and focus on career progression
- Supportive appraisal policy and no formal observations
- No written school reports
- Paid lunch duties
- Centralised reflections (detentions)
- Colleagues can leave school every Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from 3:15pm (Monday/Tuesday - 4pm finish)
- Early finish at the end of the Autumn, Spring and Summer terms.
- Nursery wrap around provision for staff members with children at SMSJ, staff are allocated a place for their children (in line with The School’s Admissions Policy)
- Access to free counselling and other wellbeing support
- Termly staff social events and tea and cake Fridays
- SMSJ school personalised staff planners
- Carpark and off-street parking
Commitment to safeguarding
St Mary’s and St John’s CE School is committed to the highest standards of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the KCSIE guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
Applying for the job
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to recruitment@smsj.london
CVs are not accepted.
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About St Mary's and St John's CofE School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, Church of England, ages 4 to 18
- Education phase
- Through
- School size
- 1650 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- recruitment@smsj.london
- Phone number
- 020 8202 0026
St Mary’s and St John’s CE School is an all-through school in Hendon, North London, successfully providing high quality education and academic achievement for children and young people from Nursery to Sixth Form. We are proud to be a diverse, multi-faith, harmonious school, with a distinctive Christian ethos, resolute in the belief that "With God, all things are possible". In a changing world our values; Wisdom, Service and Hope, define us, strengthen relationships with our parents and children, and provide guiding principles that enable us to deliver academic excellence and promote self-discipline and resilience.
Arranging a visit to St Mary's and St John's CofE School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@smsj.london.
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