Teacher of English
The Kingsway School, Cheadle, Cheshire, SK8 4QX13 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
12 May 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
28 April 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
- Head of year or phase
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Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Subject
- English
Working pattern
- Full time (Can be done as a job share)
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £31,650- £49,084
What skills and experience we're looking for
Contract type:Permanent
Location: Based at The Kingsway School, Foxland Road, Gatley, Cheadle, SK8 4QX
Required from:September 2025
Salary:MPS/UPS
Closing date: Monday 12th May 2025
Shortlisting date: W/C 12th May 2025
Interview date: 15th/16th May 2025
An exciting opportunity has arisen at The Kingsway School for a teacher of English to join an excellent team of highly dedicated professionals in a leading department within the school. Head of Year Role may also be available for the right candidate. Our English team is currently made up of sixteen staff members, all of whom share a passion and commitment to delivering the best quality education possible to our students. Underpinning this is our ethos to constantly reflect, act and improve, as we are all driven to implement educational research to enhance our curriculum offer and our teaching and learning practice. Being part of the English department is also being part of a team culture in which we all support, challenge and learn from each other.
As a result of our dedication, the English department have successfully and consistently achieved high outcomes for our students, with an average of over a third of our GCSE cohorts achieving grades 7-9. Our curriculum at both KS3 and KS4 is designed with a thematic approach, providing students with a diverse, stimulating and ambitious curriculum that embeds and develops conceptual level thinking throughout. Our commitment is to use the study of English to equip our students with the skills to question big ideas and societal issues in the world around them and our team is extremely proud of the curriculum we offer, with all members empowered to further shape our curriculum developments. We are looking to appoint a passionate, dynamic and committed team member to join us in teaching both Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4, to ensure our students achieve their full potential. An ideal candidate will have a strong enthusiasm and love for the subject, be able to transmit this to their pupils, have a vision for future development in the teaching of English, and a desire to contribute to the wealth of opportunities beyond the classroom.
For further details of this exciting opportunity, please see the job description and person specification.
Education Learning Trust is a Multi-Academy Trust, educating over 3500 pupils from age 2 to 16 in the Greater Manchester area. We are very proud of our inclusive ethos to Collaborate, Empower and Achieve and provide over 490 employees with an inspiring and innovative place to work, with exceptional training and development opportunities.
As a Trust employee you will receive excellent benefits, including a highly competitive salary, well-regarded pension scheme, excellent career development opportunities and support for your health and wellbeing, with our award-winning employee assistance programme.
Our vision at ELT is to create an exceptional learning journey for all, by providing:
exciting, innovative and challenging learning communities
school improvement strategies arising from evidenced based research and professional enquiry
opportunities for professional development and leadership
a celebration of the diversity and uniqueness of individual settings
Innovation in practice by recognising the value of learning partnerships, both locally and nationally
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
We ensure that we have a range of policies and procedures that promote safeguarding and safer working practices. This is in line with statutory guidance including Keeping Children Safe in Education and The Education Act 2002.
All offers of employment are subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records, online checks and vetting checks.
It is an offence to apply for a role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020). This means that certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’ and do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974.’
We are committed to fulfilling our Equality Duty obligations, including valuing equality and diversity and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
We are committed to employment practices that promote diversity and inclusion in employment regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, sex, marriage and civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity status, race, religion or belief.
We expect the successful candidate to have the necessary standard of spoken English, as described under Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016, the Public Sector fluency duty that requires state funded schools to ensure candidates for their customer facing roles have the necessary standard of spoken English (or English or Welsh in Wales).
Candidates should apply by completing the ELT application form, CVs alone will not be accepted in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE).
Please return applications to recruitment@kingsway.stockport.sch.uk for the attention of Kayleigh Wells, HR and Administration Officer.
What the school offers its staff
Being part of the English department is also being part of a team culture in which we all support, challenge and learn from each other.
As a result of our dedication, the English department have successfully and consistently achieved high outcomes for our students, with an average of over a third of our GCSE cohorts achieving grades 7-9. Our curriculum at both KS3 and KS4 is designed with a thematic approach, providing students with a diverse, stimulating and ambitious curriculum that embeds and develops conceptual level thinking throughout. Our commitment is to use the study of English to equip our students with the skills to question big ideas and societal issues in the world around them and our team is extremely proud of the curriculum we offer, with all members empowered to further shape our curriculum developments. We are looking to appoint a passionate, dynamic and committed team member to join us in teaching both Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4, to ensure our students achieve their full potential. An ideal candidate will have a strong enthusiasm and love for the subject, be able to transmit this to their pupils, have a vision for future development in the teaching of English, and a desire to contribute to the wealth of opportunities beyond the classroom.
For further details of this exciting opportunity, please see the job description and person specification.
Education Learning Trust is a Multi-Academy Trust, educating over 3500 pupils from age 2 to 16 in the Greater Manchester area. We are very proud of our inclusive ethos to Collaborate, Empower and Achieve and provide over 490 employees with an inspiring and innovative place to work, with exceptional training and development opportunities.
As a Trust employee you will receive excellent benefits, including a highly competitive salary, well-regarded pension scheme, excellent career development opportunities and support for your health and wellbeing, with our award-winning employee assistance programme.
Our vision at ELT is to create an exceptional learning journey for all, by providing:
exciting, innovative and challenging learning communities
school improvement strategies arising from evidenced based research and professional enquiry
opportunities for professional development and leadership
a celebration of the diversity and uniqueness of individual settings
Innovation in practice by recognising the value of learning partnerships, both locally and nationally
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
We ensure that we have a range of policies and procedures that promote safeguarding and safer working practices. This is in line with statutory guidance including Keeping Children Safe in Education and The Education Act 2002.
All offers of employment are subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records, online checks and vetting checks.
It is an offence to apply for a role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020). This means that certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’ and do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974.’
We are committed to fulfilling our Equality Duty obligations, including valuing equality and diversity and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
We are committed to employment practices that promote diversity and inclusion in employment regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, sex, marriage and civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity status, race, religion or belief.
We expect the successful candidate to have the necessary standard of spoken English, as described under Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016, the Public Sector fluency duty that requires state funded schools to ensure candidates for their customer facing roles have the necessary standard of spoken English (or English or Welsh in Wales).
Candidates should apply by completing the ELT application form, CVs alone will not be accepted in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE).
Please return applications to recruitment@kingsway.stockport.sch.uk for the attention of Kayleigh Wells, HR and Administration Officer.
Commitment to safeguarding
ELT is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
We ensure that we have a range of policies and procedures that promote safeguarding and safer working practices. This is in line with statutory guidance including Keeping Children Safe in Education and The Education Act 2002.
All offers of employment are subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records, online checks and vetting checks. It is an offence to apply for a role if you 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 recruitment@kingsway.stockport.sch.uk
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About The Kingsway School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1308 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- The Kingsway School website
- Email address
- recruitment@kingsway.stockport.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 0161 428 7706
The Kingsway School is a large successful 11-16 comprehensive school, located in between the popular Cheadle and Gatley areas of Stockport.
Students from all backgrounds thrive at The Kingsway School. Our students are not only encouraged to develop their own skills and talents to the full, but also to learn the importance of contributing to the wider community. This is a high achieving school, with a sustained focus on learning and a curriculum designed to inspire and challenge.
Our students and staff are committed to our ethos of Opportunity, Achievement and Respect.
What makes our school special?
Our commitment to staff wellbeing with our collaborative Staff Wellbeing Charter.
The fully inclusive nature of our school community including our resourced based students (SEN) and students from minority ethnic backgrounds (EAL).
Our mantra for Engagement, Challenge and Progress in all lessons.
A well-established, traditional and academic curriculum that supports students in the next stage of their education and future career pathway.
Our promotion of SMSC and British values through the curriculum, extra-curricular and whole school activities.
Our commitment to careers advice and informing students on career pathways, evidenced by our IAG Gold Award.
Our passion for the promotion of STEM based subjects within the school curriculum, and extra-curricular offer, evidenced by the MOSI STEM Excellence Award.
Our student leadership team and the impact they have on improving their school, evidenced by our representation on the British Youth Parliament.
Our work with local, national and global charities including a sister school in Kolweny, Kenya, evidenced by our International School School status.
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