Trust Lead of English

The Learning Partnership Academies Trust, Crewe, CW1 2PZ

28 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  1 September 2026

• Closing date

  24 April 2026 at 10am

• Date listed

  25 March 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Subject: English
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £65,010.00 - £71,682.00 Annually (FTE) Lead Practitioners 10-14

Trust Lead of English job summary

We are seeking to appoint a Trust Lead of English from 1 September 2026.

We require an enthusiastic and passionate individual with experience of leading English, who is academically able, inspirational and dynamic, with the vision and commitment to contribute to the Trust central education team as well as Congleton High School. You will have specific responsibility for the alignment and implementation of English across all secondary schools within the Trust as well as the leadership of the English department at Congleton High School. The successful candidate will have a teaching commitment and will be deployed to teach across the Trust as required.

We are a multi-academy trust of fifteen schools which includes nine Primary Schools, four Secondary Schools, a Studio School and a University Technical College. Our schools are all based in east Cheshire and Staffordshire centred around the towns of Crewe, Congleton and Knutsford. We provide education to over 7000 students and employ over 900 staff. We believe in allowing each school to retain its distinctive and successful ethos whilst also being able to support the ambition of individual schools, help children to reach their potential and benefit from the greater resources that partnership within the trust brings. Our vision is to transform education, delivering teaching and learning which fully equips all our young people, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds, to become positive, engaged, successful members of society.

Key attributes for the role include:

• Strong, visionary leader with a proven ability to drive change, raise standards, and motivate others.
• Passionate about high‑quality, inclusive English education, removing barriers to learning and inspiring ambitious outcomes for all pupils.
• Collaborative, innovative practitioner with excellent organisational skills, strategic planning ability, and effective partnership working across schools and stakeholders.

As a Learning Partnership leader, you’ll join a brilliant, supportive network of primary and secondary schools with areas of excellent practice and access to some of the best professional development in the sector.

What We Offer

• Supportive Leadership: Direct reporting to the Director of Secondary and the Deputy Headteacher at Congleton High School.
• Employee Wellbeing: 24/7 access to an Employee Assistance Programme and "TLP Perks," including salary sacrifice schemes for cycles, cars, and technology
• Professional Growth: Bespoke professional development through our School Improvement Framework

Closing Date:9am Friday, 24th April

Shortlisting: Week commencing 27th April

Interviews: 5th OR 6th May

The Learning Partnership is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All staff appointments are subject to satisfactory references and enhanced checks with the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS). 

The Learning Partnership is committed to the promotion of equality of opportunity and the elimination of discrimination; all applicants should note that they will be considered on the basis of suitability regardless of disability, gender, race, religion, age, sexual orientation and marital status or any other discrimination which is unfair or unreasonable. 

We particularly welcome applications from black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates and candidates with disabilities because we would like to increase the representation of these groups at The Learning Partnership. We want to do this because we know greater diversity will lead to even greater outcomes for children. We are proud to be an employer that holds Disability Committed and working towards menopause friendly status. 

The Trust is ‘happy to talk flexible working’. Flexible working increases workplace diversity by making roles accessible to those with caring responsibilities (primarily women), disabled staff, and both older and younger workers. 

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

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.

About The Learning Partnership Academies Trust

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-learning-alliance

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