24 days remaining to apply

  • Job start date

    1 September 2025

  • Closing date

    28 April 2025 at 9am

  • Date listed

    3 April 2025

Job details

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Key stage

Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5

Subject

English

Working pattern

Full time: 1 post is full time - permanent and 1 post is maternity cover from 01/09/2025 until return of the current postholder

Contract type

Permanent

Pay scale

MPS/UPS

What skills and experience we're looking for

Essential

  • Teaching English to at least GCSE Level.
  • A proven track record as a good/outstanding classroom teacher.
  • A proven track record of high standards of achievement.
  • The ability to use data effectively to track progress, set targets and implement appropriate intervention strategies.
  • Experience as a Form Tutor.

Desirable

  • Experience of teaching within an 11-18 school.

Essential

  • Sound knowledge of the English curriculum.
  • Excellent knowledge of a wide range of pedagogic approaches.
  • Good understanding of the assessment processes for English and how to use these to support planning and raise student achievement.
  • Excellent knowledge and understanding of strategies for promoting good relationships with students and effective behaviour management techniques.
  • Confident use of ICT.
  • A commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people.

What the school offers its staff

We are highly committed to managing teacher workload and offer a fortnightly home-based PPA session to all teaching staff

Commitment to safeguarding

Safeguarding requirements:

Hilbre High School are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. This role has been assessed as working in regulated activity and is subject to an Enhanced DBS plus Children’s Barred List Check.

Any offer of employment will be subject to the receipt of a satisfactory Enhanced DBS disclosure with a child barred list check, receipt of references and successful completion of vetting procedures. It is an offence to apply for this role if candidates 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 schooloffice@hilbre.wirral.sch.uk

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Additional documents

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About Hilbre High School

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 18
Education phase
Secondary
School size
1201 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 18
Ofsted report
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Phone number
0151 625 5996

Hilbre is a hard-working, lively academy where we believe that learning is an enjoyable and rewarding experience for all our students. We pride ourselves in recognising the varied and individual needs of our students and the broad, balanced education we provide, both in and outside the classroom, ensures our students can leave school with the skills, knowledge and understanding necessary to contribute confidently in today’s ever changing world.

At Hilbre High School Humanities College, you will find an 11-18 academy with just over one thousand students on roll. We are an academy which genuinely welcomes people into a partnership with a shared aim; to achieve the most we possibly can, both academically and socially for our students. We believe in success, progress, challenge and the enjoyment of learning and we constantly strive to ensure that all students achieve their very best.

Indeed, our pledge is to ensure that every student, whatever their starting point, makes rapid and sustained progress through effective, high quality teaching, in order to achieve the best outcomes within a caring and supportive environment. Our academy has the advantage of being coeducational. This enables us to deliver the full range of curriculum opportunities within a more natural and rounded environment for the social development of our students.

Arranging a visit to Hilbre High School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email schooloffice@hilbre.wirral.sch.uk.

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