Scale: MPS commensurate with experience + London Fringe Allowance
Job Summary: Are you an enthusiastic, inspiring teacher who can bring English to life and create a nurturing learning environment, within which everyone can reach their full potential?
If so, join Longfield Academy in the role of Teacher of English and you will be part of a highly successful, vibrant, experienced, supportive department.
As a Teacher of English, you will play a crucial role in shaping the educational journey of our students.
You will be responsible for delivering engaging and effective lessons that ignite a love for reading, writing, and critical thinking.
Your passion for English will inspire students to reach their full potential and develop essential communication skills for their future.
Our successful candidate will have high expectations of their students, strong subject knowledge, resilience, compassion, and a keen desire to learn and grow.
We'd like to hear from you if you are:
An excellent teacher who is passionate about learning and has strong subject knowledge;A keen advocate for the importance of English education as part of the curriculum;Have a high level of teaching experience and delivery of results, or are an Early Career Teacher (ECT) looking for their first position;Collaborative, able to build strong professional relationships;Able to motivate and inspire students and staff to achieve their full potential;Energetic and have a 'can-do' attitude;Committed to the safeguarding and happiness and wellbeing of everyone at the Academy.Join our dedicated team of educators and become part of a forward-thinking academy that values innovation, collaboration, and excellence in teaching and learning.
With state-of-the-art facilities and a supportive environment, Longfield Academy provides the perfect platform to grow and develop as an educator.
This is a fixed term opportunity which offers MPS commensurate with experience.
Note that whilst the position is offered on a maternity cover basis initially, every effort will be made to offer a substantive position thereafter, either at Longfield Academy or within the wider family of academies across Leigh Academies Trust.
The central Recruitment Team will keep in touch with you throughout your contract to discuss options available to you.
Longfield Academy is a very special place to work and pre-application visits or phone calls are both encouraged and welcomed.
If you would like to arrange to discuss the role with a member of the team, please contact Amy Wenban, Recruitment Advisor at ******.
Working with us: Longfield Academy offers a friendly and supportive working environment with innovation and collaboration at the heart of everything we do.
The academy is recognised as an International Baccalaureate (IB) world school and delivers the Middle Years Programme (MYP) to students in years 7-9.
Our most recent inspection in 2018 confirmed that Longfield Academy continues to provide strong educational outcomes for students.
The richness of our extracurricular activities allows our students to excel in drama, music, sports, and STEM.
Leaders of the academy are highly ambitious for all of the students.
We have a strong drive for school improvement underpinned by a relentless focus on the core business of improving teaching and learning.
The school is heavily oversubscribed in year 7 and year 12.
For more information about our academy, please click here.
As part of Leigh Academies Trust, you will have ample opportunity to collaborate with your peers both within the academy and across the whole Trust.
This is an important part of our vision as we know through experience that we perform better when we work together.
You are supported to undertake regular self-development to continue your professional development and hopefully progress further within the organisation.
Our commitment to safeguarding: Leigh Academies Trust and all of our academies are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
We adopt a fair, robust and consistent recruitment process across all academies and business units which is in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance.
This includes online checks for shortlisted candidates – you can read more about this in our Recruitment Guidance.
All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check.
Our commitment to equality and diversity: As a Trust, we are passionate about diversity and recognise that as individuals, we all bring something unique to the role regardless of any protected characteristics which is why we treat all of our people equally, without compromise.
Based on the quality and quantity of applications received, Leigh Academies Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy sooner than the specified closing date.
Applicants will be notified of this where possible.
Therefore, early applications are encouraged.
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