English Teacher

At EdStart, our principal values are Progression—we are committed to helping every student achieve their fullest potential, regardless of their individual challenges. Further to this we uphold the values of Humanity, Togetherness, and Compassion, ensuring a safe, inclusive, and supportive environment for both students and staff.

We are proud to embrace diversity in all its forms and are committed to building a workforce that reflects this ethos. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and encourage individuals to apply regardless of sex, race, religion, belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, pregnancy, maternity, age, disability, marriage, or civil partnership.

About the Role
We are seeking a dedicated English Teacher to join our team, working with KS3 and KS4 students who face SEND and SEMH challenges. This is a rewarding opportunity to make a lasting impact on the academic and personal growth of students who may have faced barriers to learning in mainstream settings. You will be teaching to small classrooms sizes of around 6-8 students. Your role will be to inspire students in English while supporting their emotional and social development.

Key responsibilities:

To maintain a thorough and up-to-date knowledge of the teaching of your subject(s) and take account of wider curriculum and pastoral developments which are relevant to your work.
To plan tutorials, activities, lessons and sequences of lessons to meet students’ individual learning needs.
To use a range of appropriate strategies and follow schools policies for tutoring, teaching, behaviour management and classroom management
To do all you can, involving parents and other agencies, to ensure that as a result of your tutoring and teaching you promote the health, safety, economic wellbeing and achievement of your students.
To assess, monitor and record the progress of students in your teaching and tutorial groups and give them clear and constructive feedback.
To set well-grounded expectations for students in your teaching and tutorial groups using information about prior knowledge and previous attainment, making progress as good as or better than similar students nationally.
To take responsibility for your own professional development and use the outcomes to improve your tutoring and teaching and your students’ learning.
To make an active contribution to the policies, aspirations and plans of learners, working as part of the EdStart teaching staff Read more