Vacancies

Teacher of English

Salary – Inner London Payscale

TLR available for a suitably qualified candidate 

Starting September 2024

At Northolt High School, our vision, mission and values underpin everything that we do. Our aim is to enable our students to develop strength of character, to be articulate and confident and to secure the best academic outcomes possible. Our school vision is "committed to excellence". Our mission statement describes how we work to achieve this core aim - through "seizing opportunity, instilling ambition, realising potential". Join us and you will be welcomed by a hard-working, dedicated staff and subject team who are united in their focus on student achievement and continuous school improvement.

We work in partnership with an organisation called Sycol which supports us in ensuring that we have clear systems in place, which are developed and agreed by staff collectively. Termly innovation projects involve every member of staff, helping us to quickly and effectively share ideas whilst forging strong partnerships across the staff team. These projects ensure that systemic school improvement is embedded in everything we do whilst at the same time providing all staff members with a high quality leadership development programme.

Northolt High School is a Foundation School in the London Borough of Ealing. Ealing schools have traditionally worked very collaboratively and it is no coincidence that Ealing’s performance in national league tables is strong. Schools in Ealing have come together to form the Ealing Learning Partnership (ELP) in conjunction with the Council. This partnership provides us with a range of networks so that Northolt High School staff are able to share and develop ideas and practice with Ealing colleagues across a range of schools. 

We are a relatively small school at the moment with 985 students on roll, but this is about to increase as we are supporting Ealing Council by adding three additional classes onto our school roll next academic year. We also have a new building project on the horizon which we expect to make our school even more popular.

We maintain a broad and balanced curriculum offer for all students. Our intention is to develop the school so that it has STEAM specialism (the ‘A’ is for Art) whilst at the same time retaining a breadth of curriculum offer for our students. Our curriculum offer includes a broad range of extra-curricular activities as all teachers offer one after school activity a week. 

We are expanding our English department staffing at the moment for two reasons. Firstly, we’re reorganising our school timetable to increase the amount of time dedicated to English and Maths at Key Stage 3. In addition, we need to recruit additional staff so that we can accommodate the expansion in student numbers mentioned above. 

Our English department is well led and stable. We teach the Ark Mastery Curriculum at Key Stage 3 which is hugely successful. We follow the AQA syllabus for GCSEs in English Language and English Literature. We place a huge value on the importance of reading and work very closely with our school librarian to ensure that we make full use of our Accelerated Reader programme to ensure that students’ reading skills improve. In addition to this we run a range of reading interventions, with the aim of ensuring that all students are at least reading at their chronological reading age by the time they finish Key Stage 3. Students at Northolt High enjoy their English lessons and feel well supported by our curriculum and their teachers. 

We will be the right school for you if you are committed to:

• Ensure outstanding progress and attainment in English;

• Play a full part in termly innovation projects to contribute to the development of school- wide continuous improvement;

• Continue to promote the profile of the English department through contributions to the wider life of the school.

We can offer you:

• Great support and training as you develop your career (for example, we part fund Masters Degree courses for our staff);

• The opportunity to innovate and bring in new ideas to contribute towards improving our school;

• A caring and supportive professional environment, with an early finish every Friday to promote a good work / life balance;

• A thoughtful and well-structured school calendar with careful attention paid to balancing teacher workload;

• A commitment to providing high quality opportunities for you to continue your professional learning.

Our recruitment process

One of the Ealing Learning Partnership projects we have been engaged with in the last two years is a ‘No Learner Left Behind’ project to improve the outcomes of our Black Caribbean students. Informed by our work on this project, we conduct an annual analysis of the ethnicity profile of our student body. Our 

long term aim is to ensure that the profile of our staff group matches that of our students. At the moment, we are under-represented in the following ethnicity groups: Arab, Asian, Black Caribbean, Black African and Traveller of Irish Heritage. We would therefore welcome applications from candidates who would classify themselves as belonging to these groups.

We are introducing a ‘blind’ selection process this year which we also hope will support us in reducing the risk of any unintended bias during our recruitment process. You will see that our application form is in two parts. Part one, which contains details about candidates’ gender, ethnicity and age, is not shared with the staff who select candidates to bring them forward to the interview stage. 

The school is committed to safeguarding children and safer recruitment processes are always robustly followed. Successful candidates’ appointment will be subject to safer recruitment checks and satisfactory completion of an enhanced DBS check. Further information can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/disclosure-and-barring-service/about

A Job Description & Person Specification plus an application form can be found on our website:

www.northolthigh.org.uk 

If you would like to find out more about the school prior to your application, please contact Carol Gleeson, the Headteacher’s PA on the email address below.

Please email your application to the Headteacher’s PA at: recruitment@northolthigh.org.uk.

Final closing date: midday on Tuesday 21st May 2024

Interviews to be held on application