SECONDARY TEACHER OF ENGLISH AND LITERACY (SEND) in Coventry

Exhall Grange Specialist School is a 4-19 school that provides a nurturing environment and meets the needs of children and young people with:

• Social, Communication and Interaction difficulties including Autism
• Social, Emotional and Mental Health needs
• Physical difficulties
• Sensory impairment
• Complex medical needs

Exhall Grange Specialist School fosters a caring and enabling ethos to support and develop our pupils to progress to positive outcomes and destinations. We are committed to ensuring all our pupils reach their full potential and encourage all of our pupils and staff to ‘Be Your Best Self’ which encapsulates our core purpose. Pupils are seen and known as individuals, and our high-quality, experienced staff are caring and have the expertise and attributes to bring out the best in every pupil. We provide challenge and encourage resilience to develop personal growth.

Exhall Grange strives to be an outstanding school that meets the complex special educational needs of all our pupils and the communities they represent. We constantly improve the quality of the learning outcomes for individuals by refining and refreshing our high-quality teaching, reviewing our curriculum, and using assessment and targeting consistently and effectively. At Exhall Grange, we ensure that all staff at the school are committed to personal and shared development of skills that strengthen and support our strategic purpose and vision. We encourage our pupils to develop the qualities of our school values: Respect, Resilience, Confidence, Motivation, Aspiration, and Integrity. This is as important to us as the academic and vocational curriculum.

About the role: We are looking for an English Teacher from September 2026, who will deliver inclusive, responsive, and innovative teaching and learning within the curriculum area of English. You will constantly strive to produce outstanding/good teaching and learning at all times to ensure that all pupils succeed. Under the reasonable direction of the Senior Leadership Team, you will perform the professional duties of a school Teacher as set out in the current School policies. You will be delivering English lessons across Key Stages 3, 4, and 5, but knowledge of Key Stage 2 English is also beneficial as you will be teaching pupils who are working below age-related expectations.

Areas of Responsibilities:

• Promote the learning and achievement of all pupils in your classes ensuring equality of opportunity for all.
• Plan and prepare long-term and medium-term plans.
• Have an excellent knowledge of the relevant course content.
• Create a purposeful learning environment.
• Teach according to individual educational needs, and mark work.
• Teach engaging and motivating lessons informed by well-grounded expectations of pupils and designed to raise levels of attainment.
• Know how to make effective personalised provision and effectively provide differentiated tasks for those that you teach.
• Have high expectations of our pupils including a commitment to ensuring that they can achieve their full educational potential and to establish fair, respectful, trusting, supportive, and constructive relationships with them.
• Know how to use skills in literacy, numeracy, and IT to support teaching and wider professional activities.
• Use assessment as part of your teaching to address pupils’ needs, set realistic and challenging targets for improvement, and plan future teaching.
• Ensure that elements of preparing for adulthood are embedded into teaching.
• Deliver exciting and innovative learning and undertake assessment using a broad range of methods, taking full responsibility for the success of all pupils, developing a personalised and holistic learning approach in all lessons.

You will have the opportunity to work as part of an enthusiastic and progressive English department within this unique Specialist Provision. You will become a valued member of an encouraging and friendly staff group.

The closing time/date is: 09.00 a.m on Thursday 16 April 2026. Completed application forms should be sent to: Mrs P Kane, HR Officer, Exhall Grange Specialist School, Easter Way, Ash Green, Coventry, CV7 9JG or via email to recruitment@exhallgrange.co.uk. All email applications received will be acknowledged. Interviews will be held on Thursday 23 April 2026. As part of our safer employment processes, we can only accept Exhall Grange application forms, so please do not send CVs. In line with Keeping Children Safe in Education Guidance, internet searches will be carried out on shortlisted candidates and successful candidates will require an enhanced Child and Adult workforce Disclosure and Barring check. Shortlisted candidates will be contacted via email and references will be sought prior to interview.