We require a well-qualified and enthusiastic English Teacher with excellent classroom skills and a desire to teach across the age and ability range. You will be teaching throughout Key Stages 3 to 4 and potentially, Key Stage 5.

This is a full-time, permanent role commencing September 2026. Part-time hours of minimum 80% FTE over five days per week will be considered for the right candidate.

The successful candidate should be passionate about enabling students to achieve their very best, inspiring them through positive role-modelling and encouragement. 

This post will suit ambitious ECTs or current members of the profession who want to join a school offering very high academic standards within a supportive, traditional and disciplined environment.

Please refer to the job description attachment for further details.

About St George’s English Department

English at St George’s is imaginative, innovative and interactive.

We aim to: 

• Provide a knowledge-rich, challenging and stimulating learning experience

• Foster an ethos whereby success in English is highly valued by our students, and a ‘classroom culture’ in which all students are actively engaged in the learning process

• Encourage students to become high vision learners with a willingness to accept responsibility for their own learning

• Develop all students’ ability to be expressive and creative

• Develop in students an understanding of the variety of forms in both written and spoken English

• Encourage students to become enthusiastic, responsive, and more knowledgeable and discerning readers

• Encourage every student to become independent, critical and reflective thinkers willing to engage with the ‘big ideas’ they encounter

• Prepare students for adult life in a world where the skills of communication are fundamental, and where a mastery of English can provide lifelong opportunities

• Encourage students to read widely, explore diverse literature and use this as a vehicle to appreciate and understand different perspectives, cultures and experiences

In doing so we hope that our students will:

• Develop as confident and independent learners

• Develop their ability to work cooperatively in groups

• Learn to value and experiment with creativity

• Embrace a diverse range of opinions, viewpoints and cultures

• Develop a life-long love of literature and reading

• Understand their place—and responsibilities—in the wider world

  
  

Our greatest resource is our highly qualified and experienced staff. The successful candidate would join a team of high-achieving and enthusiastic teachers (presently ten members of the team plus two English-specialist LSAs), who together enjoy working in one of the most successful English Departments in the County, and whose results year after year are excellent. For us, the teaching of English is not just a job but a joy.

Pupils are taught in mixed ability classes throughout all year groups.  In Years 10 and 11 all students are taught GCSE English Language as offered by AQA. The majority of our students also take GCSE English Literature with the same examination board. At A-Level we offer Pearson Edexcel English Literature. Our results are consistently outstanding with our students achieving some of the best results in the area.

In return we can offer:

· Additional training and support

· Ongoing professional development

· Free Lunch on working days

· Use of the school’s fitness suite/Gym

· Staff Wellbeing Programme

· Employee Assistance Programme

· Free parking on school site

· As a permanent member of staff you benefit from the application being favourably ranked if you apply for a day admission place for your child at St George’s school, subject to meeting the requirements of our published Admissions Criteria and Policy.

Applications will be shortlisted throughout the process and we may interview and close the advert early if we are in a position to recruit a suitable candidate.  We therefore encourage interested candidates to apply early.

Disclosure and Barring Service check (DBS)

St George’s School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and visitors to share this commitment. This post will require a Full Enhanced, with List Checks, Disclosure and Barring Service check (DBS).

Online Searches

We are required to conduct online searches about all candidates as part of the selection and appointment process, in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance, in order to identify any incidents or concerns which are publicly available online. By submitting and signing your application, you acknowledge that such searches will be conducted as part of the selection and appointment process.

Right to work in UK

We will require you to provide evidence of your right to work in the UK in accordance with the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006. By submitting and signing your application, you acknowledge that such evidence will need to be provided should an offer of employment be made.