Teacher of English

Full time position commencing September 2021

Salary – United Learning Pay Scale (competitive)

William Hulme’s Grammar School is the second most over-subscribed school in Manchester and one of the most successful comprehensive schools in the country. WHGS is an all-through (3-18) Academy of over 1450 pupils with a wide range of abilities, ethnicities and backgrounds.

The Academy has a relatively new Sixth Form Centre, a two-form entry Primary Phase and has specialist rooms in the Secondary Phase, including fully equipped science labs, a library, ICT resource centre, music practice rooms, design, technology and art rooms. There is also a sports hall with changing facilities, along with full kitchen and dining facilities in the Primary, Secondary and Sixth Form.

Inspectors judged the school to be Good in all phases in its most recent inspection, May 2019.

William Hulme’s Grammar School is a vibrant, multicultural school that welcomes children from all backgrounds and beliefs. We are committed to ensuring that all children receive a first-class education that prepares them thoroughly for the future and allows them to play an active role in the life of the school and wider community. The school encourages staff to organise events and trips (home and abroad), extra-curricular and subject enrichment activities, to develop the whole child, to prepare him/her for the challenges of the modern world.

We have an opportunity for an outstanding Teacher of English to join the English Faculty at William Hulme’s Grammar School.

Reporting to the Head of Faculty, you will be responsible for teaching English at Key Stages 3 and 4 and the ability to teach English to A level is also desirable. You will be an outstanding teacher, delivering consistently good and outstanding lessons, an excellent team player with the highest standards pf professionalism and expectations of students. You will have up to date subject knowledge and a track record of success in maximising student progress across all key stages. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and particularly those committed to diversity and inclusion. Applications are also welcomed from Newly Qualified Teachers.

As well as being an enthusiastic teacher who is passionate about the teaching of English you will also need to demonstrate a commitment to the extra-curricular life of the school. Within the English Department, a large range of activities (clubs, trips and visits) take place.

The English Faculty is well resourced and most teachers benefit from their own teaching classroom. It is a very successful and high achieving faculty with outstanding GCSE results.

United Learning

William Hulme's Grammar School is part of United Learning, a large, and growing, group of schools aiming to offer a life changing education to children and young people across England.

Our schools work as a team and achieve more by sharing than any single school could. Our subject specialists, our Group-wide intranet, our own curriculum and our online learning portal all help us share knowledge and resource, helping to simplify work processes and manage workloads for an improved work-life balance.

As a Group, we can reward our staff better: with good career opportunities, better pay, benefits, and ultimately, the satisfaction of helping children to succeed. We invest in our staff wellbeing. Our academies each have at least eight INSET days per year (with three of those solely dedicated to planning), and an ongoing group-wide wellbeing programme. It's an ethos we call ‘the best in everyone’.

This enables us to offer you a comprehensive induction programme and unrivalled support and career development opportunities to ensure you achieve your career ambitions and aspirations. Through the United Learning Hub, employees have access to a wide range of CPD and the opportunity to share good practice with peers across the Group.

Employees of United Learning are offered a number of employee benefits through its reward scheme, United Rewards. United Learning works with Perkbox to offer its employees over 250 exclusive benefits, all through their easy-to-access App. Featuring a huge range of perks, from discounted cinema tickets and holidays, to money off meals out at restaurants nationwide, plus savings on food, technology and clothes shopping. They also offer salary sacrifice schemes such as Childcare Vouchers and Cycle to Work which offer tax and NI savings on new bikes and nursery care.

Closing date: 18th February

Interviews: TBC

The school is fully committed to the safeguarding of children and all staff will be subject to an enhanced DBS disclosure and full child protection/safeguarding training. United Learning is an equal opportunities employer.