We are seeking a passionate and dedicated Teacher of English to deliver high-quality lessons that support students in achieving outstanding progress. The successful candidate will set clear learning targets, assess student progress with regular feedback, and ensure students are well-prepared for examinations. With a genuine passion for English, you’ll help our students grow academically, socially, and emotionally, while staying up-to-date with current educational thinking. They will contribute to schemes of work, maintain a stimulating learning environment, and engage with parents and the wider school community. The role also involves taking responsibility for professional development and actively participating in school duties and performance management activities.
Subject Specific Information:
At Oxted School, our English curriculum is designed to foster a love of language, literature, and communication while empowering students to become thoughtful, articulate, and empathetic individuals. We aim to develop confident readers, critical thinkers, and skilled writers who can engage meaningfully with the world around them.
Our curriculum is ambitious, inclusive, and broad in scope. Through exposure to a rich and diverse range of texts - classic and contemporary, local and global, fiction and non-fiction - we encourage students to explore different voices, perspectives, and experiences. We believe that engaging with literature is not just an academic pursuit but a powerful means of understanding human identity, society, and culture.
Key areas of focus include:
- Reading for breadth and depth – Students encounter a wide variety of genres, authors, and cultures to develop both literary appreciation and critical literacy.
- Writing with purpose and creativity – From persuasive speeches to poetry and narrative fiction, students learn to craft their own voice with clarity, originality, and control.
- Spoken language and oracy – We value articulate expression and encourage students to speak with confidence, listen actively, and debate respectfully.
- Diversity and representation – Our curriculum is deliberately inclusive, featuring voices from historically underrepresented communities and texts that reflect the complexity of the world today.
- Cultural and real-world connections – Students are supported to make meaningful links between literature and contemporary issues, developing empathy, global awareness, and a sense of responsibility.
Ultimately, our intent is for every student to leave Oxted School with the analytical tools, expressive skills, and ethical understanding to navigate the world thoughtfully and to find their place and power within it - through words.
What we are looking for:
- Teachers who are passionate about improving students’ life chances.
- Ability to contribute to a supportive and highly effective teaching team.
- An enthusiasm for creative subjects and developing students’ potential.
What we offer:
- A supportive team within a school that prioritises teaching and learning.
- Opportunities to try new approaches, take risks, and have fun in the classroom.
- A positive and collaborative atmosphere, focusing on strong relationships and personalised support for each student.
- A Recruitment and Retention Allowance may be available for experienced candidates looking to develop leadership skills.
As a Partnership School, we are committed to professional development through our extensive CPD programme and ensure a healthy work/life balance with effective PPA allocation.
We welcome informal meetings or tours of the school. Please contact the HR team to arrange a visit.
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The Howard Partnership Trust is an inclusive employer and welcomes applications from all individuals, regardless of gender, marital status, disability, race, age, or sexual orientation.
All applicants must be able to provide evidence of their Right to Work in the UK prior to commencement of employment. As part of our need to comply with UK immigration rules, you will be required to provide Home Office stipulated documentation prior to interview.
Early applications are encouraged. We reserve the right to interview and appoint prior to the closing date of this advertisement.
As well as verification of identity, we ask all successful candidates to undertake an enhanced DBS disclosure. In line with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) guidance, we may also conduct an online search about any shortlisted candidates as part of our due diligence to identify any matters that might relate directly to our legal duty to meet safeguarding duties, in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE).
The successful candidate will be subject to a satisfactory enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).
The Howard Partnership Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Due to the nature of this role, it will be necessary for the appropriate level of criminal record disclosure to be undertaken. In making your application, it is essential you disclose whether you have any pending charges, convictions, bind-overs or cautions and, if so, for which offences. This post will be exempt from the provisions of Section 4 (2) of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Therefore, applicants are not entitled to withhold information about convictions which for other purposes are ‘spent’ under the provision of the Act, and, in the event of the employment being taken up; any failure to disclose such convictions will result in dismissal or disciplinary action. The fact that a pending charge, conviction, bind-over or caution has been recorded against you will not necessarily debar you from consideration for this appointment.
As well as verification of identity, we ask all successful candidates to undertake an enhanced DBS disclosure. In line with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) guidance, we may also conduct an online search about any shortlisted candidates as part of our due diligence to identify any matters that might relate directly to our legal duty to meet safeguarding duties, in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE).