English Teacher in Kent, Rochester

CLOSING DATE: Monday 22nd June 2026

START DATE: ASAP

SALARY: MPS 1 £32,916 - MPS 6 £45,352

LOCATION: Oasis Restore secure school in Rochester, Medway, Kent

WORKING PATTERN: This is a full-time role, but we will consider part-time applicants and flexible working arrangements.

Do you see relationships as fundamental to your work with children, families, and the wider community? Do you have a keen interest in developing your knowledge, skills and practice? Do you want to be a part of an innovative and courageous team developing the UK's first secure school?

We are offering an exciting opportunity for a teacher of English and Literacy to join the team in contributing to and delivering an outstanding curriculum at the UK's first secure school. Oasis Restore represents a revolution in youth justice: an opportunity for children within the criminal justice system to experience a truly restorative environment, that creates the potential for them to thrive in the future.

As a founding teacher, you will play a key role in designing and delivering a curriculum that provides nurturing, therapeutic and educational community that embeds hope, stability, and opportunity for children in our care. Come and develop your career within an organisation dedicated to transforming lives.

Your role as a teacher of English and Literacy will be integral to the progress of all children at Oasis Restore, to deliver aspirational educational outcomes. You will be responsible for outstanding teaching that develops curious and dedicated learners, keen to explore creative pursuits, and meets their individual needs and interests.

You will have the opportunity to teach a second subject area, developing your own practice with the necessary support to deliver consistently outstanding teaching. You will launch and continuously contribute to a creative media curriculum underpinned by progressive pedagogies, in line with the national curriculum and a variety of formal qualifications, setting a true gold standard for learning.

You will be an integral part of a passionate, committed, and ground-breaking multidisciplinary team, working integratively towards improving the outcomes for children so often overlooked. Together, we will devise strategies to empower children to take ownership of their own learning journeys, so preparing them for successful transitions into the next phase of their journey.

You will teach class sizes of 5 children, with the support of two additional staff to tailor learning support to each student, in specially designed education buildings with brand new equipment technology and software. As a champion of restorative practice, you will place relational connection at the heart of everything you do. Your work will be the driving force that enables children to transition out of Oasis Restore with the support in place for them to succeed in the next step of their journeys.

Our Secure School Oasis Restore is the UK's first secure school that is a proof-of-concept policy initiative funded by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) and the Youth Custody Service. Oasis Restore's mission is to transform the life chances of children aged 12-18 years in the criminal justice system through delivering psychologically informed, integrated practice that centres on trusted, safe relationships between staff and children.

Oasis Restore is a learning community with education at its core that embeds hope, stability, and opportunity for children beyond the secure school.

Benefits to Staff:

• Class sizes of approximately 5 children, with 2 additional support staff.
• A minimum of 15% planning, preparation, and assessment time (PPA).
• Use of brand new, specially designed classrooms, studio spaces and an ICT suite with course-specific software.
• Reduced teacher workload, exams and at home marking expectation.
• A mixture of one to one and group reflective practice, coaching & supervision sessions as well as regular line management.
• Experience an Appraisal policy that decouples pay and performance.
• An elected staff forum to listen to, and act on, staff feedback.
• Access to a competitive defined benefit pension scheme (either the Teachers Pensions Scheme or Local Government Pension Scheme subject to individual scheme rules).
• 40 days annual leave including bank holidays.
• Subject to meeting basic eligibility criteria, be entitled to up to 8 weeks full-pay and 18 weeks half-pay paid maternity/adoption/shared parental leave.
• Subject to meeting basic eligibility criteria be entitled to up to 3 weeks fully paid paternity leave.
• Paid time off to attend antenatal appointments.
• Have a structured and bespoke induction training plan plus a training offer bespoke to our context leading to know how to work with a therapeutic lens.
• Receive the same offer of sick leave pay from Day 1 of employment.
• Up to 5 days discretionary paid compassionate/emergency/general leave plus further discretionary unpaid leave.
• Up to 4 weeks paid parental bereavement leave plus up to 5 days paid bereavement leave for the death of other specified close relatives.
• Expenses and travel costs incurred as part of the working day.
• Access to an eye care vouchers scheme, season Ticket Loans, a cycle to work scheme and free car parking.
• We offer a Westfield Health healthcare cash plan and a wide range of employee discounts as part of our commitment to staff wellbeing.

We are also very happy to answer any questions you may have, so please don't hesitate to get in touch.

Safeguarding and Pre-Employment Checks:

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff to share this commitment. All successful candidates will be subject to Disclosure and Barring Service checks along with other relevant employment checks including references and right to work checks.

It is an offence to apply for a role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. This post is also covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) and therefore the ability to speak fluent and spoken English is an essential requirement for this role.

Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion:

At Oasis Restore we recognise that our team is strengthened by the knowledge, experience and insights people from a wide range of backgrounds can bring. These beliefs and values are underpinned by decades of work and experience that Oasis has had in a wide range of sectors including education, housing and youth-work supported further by a wide range of independent research and studies elsewhere which evidence that creating teams with diverse experience and perspectives, and encouraging healthy debate, reduces the risk of ‘blind spots' that often form barriers to success.

Oasis Restore aim is to attract and retain the very best diverse talent and role models to help create an innovative, caring and extraordinary working environment for our staff, that enables us to deliver exceptional, caring and psychologically informed learning experience for our students.

If you can demonstrate some of the criteria and believe you have what it takes, then we'd love to hear from you.