English Teacher | Highly Regarded School | Cambridge

We require an inspiring, highly articulate English Teacher to deliver outstanding English Language and English Literature instruction across Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4, with opportunities to contribute to post-16 advanced pathways. Operating within an ambitious, oversubscribed secondary comprehensive academy widely celebrated for its strong academic progress and deep community pride, the successful candidate will facilitate a knowledge-rich, text-led curriculum designed to foster deep analytical comprehension, critical essay-writing skills, and an enduring passion for the literary canon, preparing all pupils thoroughly for exceptional outcomes in terminal GCSE public examinations.

Our academy operates as a proud, community-focused secondary provider dedicated to raising academic standards, celebrating linguistic excellence, and serving the wider Cambridge community. The campus features specialized, print-rich English classrooms, an extensive and newly refurbished school library, and a highly collaborative, expert English faculty. Our behaviour management framework relies on strict organizational structures, clear behavioural expectations, and mutual respect, maintaining an exceptionally safe, orderly, and highly purposeful environment where pupils can confidently engage in critical debate, textual deconstruction, and sophisticated creative writing.

Key Tasks & Daily Operations:

• Rigorous & Canon-Led Instruction: Plan, resource, and deliver high-impact English lessons across all attainment pathways, systematically embedding historical context, thematic tracking, and advanced vocabulary retrieval across poetry, prose, and drama.
• Analytical Essay Scaffolding: Train pupils to a high technical standard in structuring sophisticated written arguments, utilizing analytical frameworks (such as PEAL or analytical matrices) to build critical thinking and writing stamina.
• GCSE Performance Optimization: Guide Year 11 examination cohorts meticulously through the rigorous demands of linear terminal papers for both GCSE English Language and English Literature, utilizing formative data to eliminate writing misconceptions and maximize high-grade retention.
• Closing Literacy & Vocabulary Gaps: Identify and target learning barriers within mixed-ability cohorts, deploying explicit tier-2 and tier-3 vocabulary instruction, reading intervention strategies, and scaffolded sentence frames to ensure accessibility for SEND pupils while stretching high-prior-attaining writers.
• Inclusive Pastoral Support: Fulfil full form tutor responsibilities within an established year group structure, supporting pupil wellbeing, managing daily registration routines, and maintaining proactive, positive communication with families.

Profile Requirements:

• Qualifications: Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) or a recognised equivalent teaching credential, paired with a strong honours degree in English Literature, English Language, or a closely related creative or humanities discipline.
• Pedagogical Capability: A proven track record or clear capacity to deliver strong progress metrics and exceptional performance outcomes in terminal public GCSE examinations through highly structured, systematic, and explicit English pedagogy.
• Intellectual & Empathetic Ethos: An unwavering commitment to comprehensive education, possessing the exceptional communication skills, empathy, and literary passion required to challenge high-attaining pupils while building reading and writing confidence in pupils of all backgrounds.

Regional Context:

A World-Class Literary and Academic Horizon: Based in the historic and globally renowned university city of Cambridge, the school capitalizes on an exceptional regional identity defined by centuries of world-class academic scholarship, scientific discovery, and literary heritage. The city’s profound historical connection to legendary writers, poets, and critics—alongside the unmatched intellectual resources of the collegiate university networks—provides a spectacular, real-world backdrop for textual studies, poetry workshops, and historical context modules, connecting classroom literature directly to global academic excellence and cultural prestige.

Connectivity & Infrastructure: The campus benefits from premium Cambridgeshire and East Anglian transport infrastructure, offering straightforward road commuting via the M11 motorway, the A14, and the A11 corridors. Public transit networks operate flawlessly across the metropolitan area, utilizing comprehensive local bus networks and the Cambridgeshire Guided Busway system, alongside Cambridge and Cambridge North railway stations, which provide frequent, high-speed Great Northern and Greater Anglia rail links connecting the school directly to Ely, Peterborough, Norwich, Stansted Airport, and London King's Cross.

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