English Teacher

Role: Teacher of English

Start: September 2024

Contract: Full time, Permanent

Salary: MPR/UPR

Teaching Personnel work in partnership with an 11-18 coeducational secondary school and Sixth Form with an academy status, graded ‘GOOD’, with ‘OUTSTANDING’ Sixth Form during Ofsted’s most recent visit.  The school is easily accessible by car or public transport and is located just a 10-minute walk from Chichester train station.

The school are looking to appoint a dynamic teacher of English to join their department from September 2024, on a full-time permanent basis.  The department members are all outstanding in their own individual way, with a wide range of experience and teaching styles.  The English department has 14 well decorated rooms and a vast collection of multimedia resources from the full canon of English Language and Literature.  There are seven one-hour lessons of English per fortnight at KS3 and eight at KS4 and KS5 and an abundance of extra-curricular opportunities offered to all students.

Ideally you will:

• Be an excellent classroom practitioner with an enjoyment of working with young people.
• Have effective classroom management and an ability to demonstrate resilience in working with challenging behaviour.
• Have effective time management; able to prioritise workload to meet deadlines and targets.
• Be an excellent team player, genuinely committed to working in partnership with others.
• Be an excellent communicator to a variety of audiences with good interpersonal skills and emotional intelligence.
• Be a reflective practitioner committed to developing own teaching and learning strategies.

If you are an ECT, or more experienced teacher of English looking to motivate students and further your career, then we would like to hear from you.

All applicants will require the appropriate qualifications and training for this role. Please see the FAQ’s on the Teaching Personnel website for details.
All pay rates quoted will be inclusive of 12.07% statutory holiday pay. This advert is for a temporary position. In some cases, the option to make this role permanent may become available at a later date.
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