Teacher of English
University Technical College Norfolk, Norwich, Norfolk, NR4 6FF10 days remaining to apply
Start date details
January 2026
Closing date
28 November 2025 at 12am (midnight)
Date listed
18 November 2025
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Subject
- English
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- M1 to UPS3
Teacher of English job summary
part of the Community Schools Trust
Tel: 01603 580280
Email: office@utcncst.org
Website: utcn.org.uk
- Salary - M1 to UPS3 (£32,916 - £51,045 FTE)
- Temporary until September 2026
- Full Time
- Required from January 2026
Are you an enthusiastic and dedicated Early Career Teacher (ECT) looking for the perfect school to launch your career?
We are seeking a motivated and passionate teacher to join our supportive and welcoming school community from January 2026/September 2026. This is an exceptional opportunity for a talented ECT to thrive with high-quality mentoring and professional development opportunities.
UTCN exists to develop the next generation of engineers and science professionals and, with a fabulous £10m building and £1.3m of specialist equipment, that’s exactly what we have achieved. We have been open over ten years and we are already one of the top performing UTCs in the country. We have a specialism in engineering, but we also cater for 14-19 age students with interests in Science, Computing and Mathematics. UTCN is heavily oversubscribed for 2025 entry and was graded at least ‘Good’ across all areas by OFSTED in January 2025 and Outstanding for the 6th form and Behaviour and Attitudes.
UTCN has joined the London-based MAT Community Schools Trust (CST) in 2020. CST has a track record of achieving some of the best exam results in the country. This partnership of technical expertise with academic excellence will create some fabulous opportunities for both staff and students. CST supports the school in the creation and application of robust and rigorous systems that all teaching staff adhere to, to promote exceptional progress in our students. It allows us to have a standardised, research based approach to teaching at UTCN that allows staff to be the best possible teachers.
If you are an excellent teacher (with QTS) who has the:
- Ability to teach English
- Capacity for hard work
- Flexibility to teach classes split with other members of faculty
- Determination to ensure UTCN is the top provider of its type in the country
Then we want to hear from you.
How to apply
An application pack is available from ‘Attachments’.
For this vacancy, if you click on the ‘Apply for Job’ button, you will be redirected to our website to apply.
We reserve the right to close applications for this position, and interview earlier, if a suitable candidate applies.
Closing date: 28 November 2025, 12 noon
Interview date: TBC
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. To this end, you may be required to undergo pre-employment checks.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and you will be required to undergo an Enhanced DBS check or Enhanced DBS check with barred list. If you have information to declare it may be protected under the Exceptions Orders and you may not be required to declare it. You will be asked to make a criminal conviction declaration if you are shortlisted for the post. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education 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
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About University Technical College Norfolk
- School type
- Free School, ages 14 to 19
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 421 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 14 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- University Technical College Norfolk website
University Technical College Norfolk (UTCN) is an exciting school created to developing tomorrow’s engineering and technology specialists. UTCN provides a comprehensive educational foundation for any student who has an interest in engineering, science, technology, maths or computing.
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