Teacher of English

What skills and experience we're looking for

Teacher of English
Permanent
0.8 or Full Time. The successful candidate will teach English throughout the age range 11-16.

Start Date:

August 2026
Job
-27
Salary: MPS/UPS (£32,916 – £51,047 per annum)

• Staff are nurtured to develop their craft
• English is valued by students and families
• Resources centrally and collaboratively planned
• The academy’s results have been significantly above national averages for many years
• Excellent CPD opportunities through our professional learning Mondays, weekly learning sessions and CPD Library
• Strong academic ethos and high expectations of students
• Behaviour management is centralised and teachers are enabled to flourish

Please see the enclosed Job Description and Person Specification for more information.

This post will involve contact with vulnerable groups (children, young people and/or adults) and is therefore exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and subject to an Enhanced DBS Disclosure check. This exemption means that shortlisted applicants for this post will be required to declare all criminal convictions, cautions, reprimands, and bind‑overs both spent and unspent before interview and regardless of the passage of time.

• Complete the application form online.
• Include a letter detailing why you are a suitable candidate for the position.
• See the documents listed below, which may assist you in making your application:
• Applicant Pack
• Job Description
• Application and Recruitment Process document

Should you have any queries regarding your application please contact the school.

Closing date:
Wednesday 18th March 2026 at 9am

Interview date: W/C 23rd March 2026

• Safeguarding: safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
• Equal opportunities and equal value for staff and students, prevention of discrimination in its many forms.

We can offer you the opportunity to advance your career within a supportive academy environment. This is an exciting opportunity to be a part of a high achieving and forward‑thinking department within a highly successful school. You will be able to take advantage of their evidence‑led practice and learn from them to aid you contribute to a department which regularly achieves above the national average.

We look to improve, not because we are not good enough but because we can always do better.

Rushey Mead Academy is well placed to offer a comprehensive support package to ECTs from all routes into teaching, including PGCE, SCITT, Schools Direct and Teach First. Both new and established teachers will be supported and encouraged to develop their practice by engaging in the numerous opportunities to collaborate and share ideas with colleagues within our Professional Learning programme.

Rushey Mead Academy is part of The Mead Educational Trust (TMET), a growing partnership of primary and secondary schools situated in the East Midlands. The Trust draws its educational excellence from the established track record of quality education provision of Rushey Mead Academy, the Trust's convertor academy.

TMET provides its academies access to a world‑class education network and staff with an employer providing high quality professional development. We are committed to ensuring each academy enables every pupil to achieve the very best. We believe that together we make a positive difference.

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification, Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online, and social media prohibition from teaching, right to work, satisfactory references, suitability to work with children, and you must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.