Job Description

English Teacher

Full-time

Jan 2025

Secondary Academy

ECTs welcome to apply

Are you a qualified English Teacher looking for a full-time teaching role from January? We have an exciting opportunity to join a supportive Secondary Academy in South West London.

The role

In this role you will be teaching English to pupils across KS3 and KS4 with the potential of some KS5 classes depending on experience. Students follow an engaging, creative, thematic curriculum based on the National Curriculum, which will be personalised to their learning needs. You will be supporting students working towards GCSE exams following standard examination programmes. Students at the school currently achieve good results at GCSE and you will work closely with the English department to maintain and improve the teaching and learning to allow students to make the highest levels of progress. The school use a digital platform for planning to ensure workload is not excessive and the department work closely together for assessments and monitoring. 

The school are looking for a teacher with the following:

Qualified Teacher Status

High expectations and the ability to motivate students in the classroom

Understanding of the requirements for high quality teaching

Ability to use ICT effectively

Ability to fulfil the requirements of a Form Tutor

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and an ability to relate to people at all levels

Excellent administration skills and the ability to meet deadlines

The school

This high-achieving mixed Secondary School is based in Raynes Park, South-West London and is rated 'Good' by Ofsted. The dedicated leadership team have created a supportive and nurturing culture across the school that supports students to achieve academic success and to thrive socially, emotionally and physically. The school offers a broad and balanced curriculum at all levels from KS3 – KS5. Students are able to access a wide variety of enrichment activities to support their learning. Staff in the school are supported within their own professional development with access to a range of on-site and borough level training.

We have a policy to respond to all applications within three working days. However, because of the volume of applications, we are sometimes unable to reply to individual enquiries. If we have not contacted you within this specified time your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. Philosophy Education is a Recruitment Business and is advertising this vacancy on behalf of one of its clients