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Teacher of English
Teacher of English
Salary scale: MPS / UPS
Contract term: Permanent
Working time: Full time
Required from: Required from September 2026, or sooner if available
This is a fantastic opportunity for an exceptional Teacher of English to join the academy community.
The successful candidate will be joining a highly successful team and a supportive and forward-thinking environment.
We are seeking to appoint an outstanding English teacher to further strengthen an already thriving faculty. Applications are invited from ambitious, inspirational and talented classroom practitioners who are passionate about delivering exciting, innovative and engaging English lessons that allow all students to achieve their full potential.
The successful candidate will have the ability to deliver quality teaching that drives achievement and inspires a love of learning. You will be able to demonstrate experience of achieving positive outcomes for pupils, as well as being passionate about making a difference to the lives of young people. As a committed team player, you will have excellent organisational skills and the natural ability to motivate both pupils and peers.
The successful candidate should be able to teach English at key stages 3 and 4 as our students produce ambitious, sophisticated, and highly creative outcomes.
We welcome applications from candidates whose personal qualities and values reflect those in the person specification, and whose experiences also place them in a strong position to deliver the challenges set out in the job description.
Taken from our Ofsted Inspection in November 2022: ‘Aspire, Believe, Achieve’ is at the heart of Harborne Academy. Aspirational words and images surround pupils in corridors and classrooms. Pupils welcome these. Pupils and staff share positive and respectful relationships. Pupils value the support staff give them. This motivates pupils to achieve well, and they do. Pupils are happy and safe at school.
For more information and to apply, contact the academy on 0121 464 2737 or email recruitment@harborneacademy.co.uk. Please apply directly on the academy website (Job Vacancies - Harborne Academy) and email the recruitment inbox with your application.
If you would like to visit the academy, please contact the Headteachers PA on 0121 464 2737 or via enquiry@harborneacademy.co.uk
Closing Date: Friday 17th April 2026
Interviews: TBC with shortlisted candidates
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Working for us
‘Pupils and staff share positive and respectful relationships. Pupils value the support staff give them. This motivates pupils to achieve well, and they do.
Harborne Academy continues to be a good school’. – Ofsted 2022
We believe that our staff are crucial to the success of Harborne Academy and are the people who will have the most impact on our success. By looking after our staff, we will maximise the life chances and opportunities for our students.
Ensuring our staff are supported and given the opportunities to develop is our priority.
Our staff are dedicated, passionate professionals who go above and beyond to ensure that students are safe, happy, learning and progressing. Staff well-being is paramount, and we strive for that work-life balance for all staff, whatever their role within the academy.
At the academy we have high expectations. We expect staff to challenge students and themselves. We set high standards and aim to display these in all that we do.
We are a great school to work in for a number of reasons:
- Fantastic CPD with extensive professional development opportunities
- A vibrant and exciting academy which is culturally and ethnically diverse.
- Members of the Education Staff Wellbeing Charter (a declaration of support for, and a set of commitments, to the wellbeing and mental health of everyone working in education)
- 1 paid absence staff day per academic year (to be used for weddings etc.)
- 24 hours access to our Employee Assistance Programme that offer services like: virtual GP, stress coaching, counselling, physiotherapy sessions and many more
- Flexible working on offer (period 1 or period 5 PPA for flexibility). Bespoke flexibility for support staff available.
- Wellbeing comittee with a wellbeing fund available
- Employee star of the month
If you share our ambition to provide an exceptional experience for every child in the academy, please click below to see the current opportunities we have available:
We reserve the right to close vacancies early if we receive sufficient applications for roles. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
Harborne Academy is committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We adopt a fair, robust, and consistent recruitment process which is in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance, which may also include an online search as part of our due diligence on shortlisted applicants. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, suitable references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check.
As part of our recruitment checks, an online search will be undertaken on all shortlisted candidates. This search does not form part of the shortlisting process, and you will have the opportunity to discuss any issues of concern that may arise from this search at the interview.
