English Teacher (Temporary MAT cover) in Worksop

Academy: Outwood Academy Valley

Start Date: 18/01/27

Salary (Actual Salary): £34,069 to £52,835

Working Pattern: Full time

Please note that this is a temporary MAT cover role from 18/01/27 until 31/08/27 in the first instance, with a likely extension to Christmas 2027.

Are you a dedicated and highly effective educator committed to raising the achievement of all students within your subject area? Join us as a Teacher, where you will be instrumental in delivering high-quality learning, utilising a range of teaching and learning strategies to ensure student success. This position requires a professional who is aware of strategies for improving learning, understands curriculum developments, and is creative in finding solutions to enhance student performance.

Welcome from the Principal: I am proud to introduce you to Outwood Academy Valley, a school where excellence, innovation, and opportunity create an outstanding learning environment for both students and staff. We are situated at the heart of the community in Worksop, the 'Gateway to the Dukeries.' We are deeply committed to putting students first, raising standards, and transforming lives. We believe learning should be enjoyable and enriching, allowing students to make exceptional progress through our knowledge-rich, personalised curriculum. Our Performing Arts Department is a particular area of excellence.

About the Department: Here at Outwood Academy Valley we have 15 English teachers and 3 one-to-one tutors in the English department. The department is a combination of experienced staff and more recent entrants to the profession and it is led by a Head of Department, second in department and Lead Teacher who work together to provide supportive and strategic direction. More experienced teachers will value the clear sense of purpose and organisation in the department and recently-trained colleagues will find it a rewarding place to start a career in English teaching. Teaching takes place in the department’s 12 classrooms. Every classroom has a visualiser and these are used extensively by the team for the purpose of modelling and live marking. All classrooms have large interactive whiteboards. As a department, we work closely with our two librarians who take pride in ensuring that our ‘Vision’ is a welcoming and stimulating learning environment. ‘Vision’ is well-stocked with a wide range of fiction and non-fiction to appeal to all interests and meet all reading needs.

The department has created a rich and engaging KS3 curriculum. Students read and study plays by Shakespeare, such as Macbeth and The Tempest exploring themes and characters and how the issues in his plays are pertinent to modern society. More modern texts, such as The Crossing, The Girl Who Stole An Elephant and My Sister Lives on the Mantlepiece allow students to consider themes such as friendship and loss of innocence and they invite discussion and reflection on key moral, social and cultural issues.

There is a strong whole-school literacy strategy which aims to ensure that all students can gain the educational and personal benefits of reading. This includes reading catch up programmes, reading challenges and rewards, Accelerated Reader and a variety of reading interventions for readers who are not yet proficient. An HLTA further supports the development of Literacy by using the Ruth Miskin phonics programme to support emergent readers.

As in all OGAT secondary academies, the department prepares students for Eduqas GCSE English Language and English Literature qualifications. The programme of study is fully resourced with high-quality materials produced by staff across the trust who know this specification well. We aim to make all our teachers ‘experts’ in preparing students for GCSE examinations, using our thorough and systematic methods devised over many years. We have the benefit of support from the trust’s team of expert English directors, who provide support, materials, advice, coaching and who model and team-teach in lessons alongside us to develop our expertise. As an indication of our success, each year over 85% of year 11 students achieve a pass in English, with strong positive average progress for all students.

Closing date: Midday, Thursday 01st October 2026