Teacher of English - Sir Graham Balfour High School

Overview

Sir Graham Balfour Main Scale (£32,916 - £51,048)

Required from Easter or September 2026 (please indicate in your supporting letter which date you wish to start from – we have no preference and are equally welcome to applications from candidates who can start at either date).

We are seeking to appoint a dynamic Teacher of English to join our English Faculty. Working within our strong, supportive and experienced team of English staff, the successful candidate will have a firm commitment to raising whole-school achievement; have a professional approach to staff development; high expectations; and a determination to succeed. The successful applicant will have the ability to successfully and effectively teach English in Key Stages 3 and 4, with the potential to teach at A level.

Teacher of English
• Full time, permanent post
• Sir Graham Balfour Main Scale (£32,916 - £51,048)
• Required from Easter or September 2026.

The faculty is at an exciting point in its development and enjoying considerable success in public exams at all levels. We are looking to appoint a forward thinking and inspirational professional to help take the faculty through the next exciting phase of its development.

• A friendly, well-motivated staff, who embrace willingly a culture of professional development.
• An ever growing reputation in the local community which has resulted in the school being consistently oversubscribed in an area where student rolls are falling.
• A very positive climate for learning.
• A first rate learning environment.
• We are housed in buildings completed in 2002 and financed via a PFI initiative.
• Innovative 14-19 collaboration and an increasing roll at KS5.
• A commitment to inclusive practice.

• All shortlisted applicants will be submitted for an enhanced DBS check.
• Applications will only be accepted if submitted on the IMAT’s formal application form.
• Two references will be required, one of which must be from your most recent employer. In the case of teachers, one reference must come from your most recent headteacher.
• Once a written reference has been received, we will contact the referee by telephone to confirm the provenance of that reference.
• If shortlisted, online searches will be carried out to help identify any incidents or issues that have happened and are publicly available online, which the school might want to explore with the applicant at interview.
• At interview, applicants will be asked if they have ever been involved in any form of media or activity which would make them unsuitable to work with children and young people, or, if it came to light, might risk the reputation of the school in the eyes of the community or wider public.
• If shortlisted, we may request a portrait photo to attach to your file to help confirm identity.
• If appointed, the appointment is subject to satisfactory completion of checks: right to work in the UK, qualifications, DBS Enhanced Disclosure, Criminal Record Self-Declaration Form, teacher prohibition and barred list checks, pre-employment medical screening (if necessary) and satisfactory references.
• Visits to the school are strongly recommended. Contact details below.

For an application pack, visit  or contact Mrs Vicki McKeen, Headteacher’s PA, vmckeen@si, or telephone  The closing date for applications is 3pm on Friday 30 January 2026. Please return completed applications to vmckeen@si

• Shortlisting will take place on Friday 30 January 2026; successful applicants will be contacted no later than 5pm on the same day.
• If you have not heard from us by this time, please assume you have not been successful.
• Interviews will take place in the week beginning 2 February 2026. They will include a tour of the school, meetings with the Faculty, delivery of a lesson and interviews for shortlisted candidates. Further details of the lesson will be sent to successful candidates.