Teacher of English - Vacancy Ref TWA27
This job expired on 8 December 2023
Start date details
Easter or September 2024
Closing date
8 December 2023 at 9am
Date listed
21 November 2023
Job details
Job role
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: Full time Full time, Monday to Friday. Part time Part time h ours to be agreed
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Main Pay Range to Upper Pay Range - £30,000 - £46,525
What skills and experience we're looking for
The successful candidate should be qualified to degree level in English The successful candidate should have a relevant teaching qualification (PGCE, Cert Ed, BEd).
The ability to teach the full age and ability range is required.
- A thorough knowledge of and enthusiasm for the subject of English is required.
- A commitment to the provision of quality and equality of opportunity in the teaching of English is required.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills in a variety of contexts (students, parents, colleagues etc.) are sought.
- The successful candidate will be required to work effectively in a closely-knit team.
- Commitment to continuous review and curriculum development is sought.
- Candidates should have a forward-looking approach to teaching and have drive, initiative and the ability to respond quickly to further developments in education within school.
- Committed to the safeguarding of children and young people
What the school offers its staff
CET strives to be recognised as an employer of choice.
We want to attract high quality staff for our schools and in return offer a ‘people first’ approach, so that staff feel part of a community. We want staff to be confident to both support and challenge one another regardless of position or seniority, feel valued and able to contribute to the development of CET.
We also recognise the need to reward effort and good results as our aim is year−on−year improvement by schools.
There are well developed staff progression routes. We support and develop our staff and give individuals every opportunity to develop and grow with us. There is a commitment to high-quality Continuous Professional Development programmes. These are geared to maximising job satisfaction and significantly increasing expertise, confidence and skills.
Staff can work across our family of schools, enabling our academies to benefit from wider expertise and to offer individuals fresh opportunities. Quality of life outside work significantly shapes the way in which people perform, so the need to achieve a healthy work/life balance is an important aspect of our commitment to staff. In return, we ask our staff to commit to the trust standards, these include:
- All of us are responsible for promoting the trust values of Respect, Responsibility and Resilience.
- Staff routinely modelling our view that everyone is helped and supported to ‘Be the best you can be’.
- In all decision-making, pupils and students must come first and inclusion is at the heart of our learning approach.
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.
About The Whitehaven Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 760 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- The Whitehaven Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- egraham@whitehavenacademy.org.uk
School location
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