We are recruiting for a Teacher of English with responsibility for
Whole School Literacy
Required for September 2025
Salary Range: Main Scale/Upper Pay Scale + TLR 2b
Hours: Permanent Full-time position
Hagley Catholic High School is looking to recruit a teacher of English and whole school literacy lead for the start of the next academic year. It would be desirable that the candidate can teach across all year groups from KS3 to KS5.
This is a fabulous opportunity in a very good school. The English Department is very experienced and well qualified. It has a team of ten staff all based in the same block; schemes of learning are well sequenced, and students make excellent progress. Students secure very good GCSE results, 91.1% achieving grades 9-4 in 2024 and 36.1% of students achieving 9-7 grades. The department also secured an excellent value-added English score of +0.53, placing it well above the national average. Students achieve well in English at A level and are consistently above national averages, the highest performing subject in terms of progress with value added scores of +0.11 and +0.05 for Language/Literature in 2024.
English is consistently one of the highest performing subjects at Hagley and the successful candidate would quickly become part of a fabulous team with the opportunity to make a big impact.
As School Literacy Lead the successful candidate will be able to demonstrate a passion for reading and literacy, and the impact reading fluency and comprehension has on academic progress and lifelong opportunities. They will demonstrate an up-to-date knowledge on the latest research related to literacy development and will have a clarity of vision of how they can develop this area. They would be expected to drive the Literacy Policy and reading culture, lead on interventions for the lowest 20% of readers, track and monitor reading progress and develop new opportunities to take literacy development further.
We welcome applications from both Catholics and non-Catholics but expect all employees to support the Catholic ethos and values of the school. If you meet the requirements of the and person specification and feel that you make a positive difference to our school, then we can’t wait to receive your application.
A full application pack is available from Hagley Catholic High School, by contacting the Principal’s PA or downloading the pack from the Emmaus website:
Email: principalpa.hchs@emmausmac.com
Phone: 01562 883193
Online:
We warmly welcome visits to the school. For specific questions about the role and/or to request a visit, please contact Mrs Barrett (Head of English) via email at ebarrett@emmausmac.com
Closing Date: 18th March 2025
Interviews : w/c 24th March 2025