Role: Teacher of English
Academy: Outwood Grange Academy
Start Date 01/09/2026
Salary (Actual Salary): £32,916 - £51,048
Working Pattern: 4 days per week (3 days considered)
Are you a dedicated and highly effective educator committed to raising the achievement of all students within your subject area? Join us as a Teacher, where you will be instrumental in delivering high-quality learning, utilising a range of teaching and learning strategies to ensure student success.
This position requires a professional who is aware of strategies for improving learning, understands curriculum developments, and is creative in finding solutions to enhance student performance.
Welcome from the Principal:
Thank you for your interest in Outwood Grange Academy.
I am so pleased you are looking at this fantastic opportunity to work at Outwood Grange Academy. Our larger-than-average 11-19 academy is in the heart of Outwood, Wakefield, with easy access to major towns and cities via the motorway network.
As the Founding Academy of the Outwood Grange Academies Trust, we embody the organisation's core ethos: making students our fundamental priority, raising standards, and transforming life chances.
I am truly proud of the work we do to ensure all aspects of education are of the highest possible quality. This is driven by our staff's unwavering dedication, their commitment to enabling every student to achieve their potential. We are passionate about the importance of CPD for our teachers as they are our greatest resource and are best placed to inspire students.
If this is a vision that resonates with you, I look forward to meeting you to discuss what you have to offer.
About the Department:
The English Department at Outwood Grange is a large, successful team made up of 20 teachers and three one-to-one tutors. The department is friendly and supportive, and staff in the team put the attainment of students at the heart of their discussions and all they do. There is a combination of some very experienced teachers and a number of ECTs, and those who are new to the profession are nurtured by a mentor from within the team. Whilst there are a range of career opportunities within the school and the trust, the English Department at Outwood Grange Academy is also a fantastic place to start your career, and we are excited about helping staff to flourish in the classroom.
We have a large allocation of classrooms, with full-time staff teaching entirely or almost entirely in one room. Classrooms have video projectors, large television screens and visualisers, which are housed upon bespoke lecterns to enable staff to run the room effectively when presenting from the front. The library is also part of the English Department, not only in a physical sense but also because we believe that reading is at the centre of what we do.
Because of our belief in the vital importance of reading, the department has developed a KS3 curriculum where learning branches from a range of engaging and culturally interesting texts. Students will study three plays by William Shakespeare over years 7 to 9, including a history, tragedy and comedy, in order to present them with an ambitious curriculum that prepares them for both GCSE and A Level study. Contemporary texts and their reception are reviewed yearly in order to evaluate them for relevance and rigour. Children have a weekly ‘Immersive Read’ lesson, and the team have shared the responsibility - and pleasure - of choosing the texts for this; they range from versions of Dracula to the more recent The House with Chicken Legs.
There is a strong whole-school literacy strategy which aims to ensure that all students can gain the educational and personal benefits of reading. This includes reading in form time, Accelerated Reader and a variety of reading interventions for readers who are not yet proficient. The specialist literacy teaching assistants use the Ruth Miskin phonics programme to support emergent readers.
As in all OGAT secondary academies, the department prepares students for Eduqas GCSE English Language and English Literature qualifications. The programme of study is fully resourced with high-quality materials produced by staff across the trust who know this specification well. We aim to make all our teachers ‘experts’ in preparing students for GCSE examinations, using our thorough and systematic methods devised over many years. We have the benefit of support from the trust’s team of expert English directors, who provide support, materials, advice, coaching and who model and team-teach in lessons alongside us to develop our expertise. As an indication of our success, each year our students gain, on average, a progress score of around +0.5.
We believe our success speaks for itself as we are well above the national average for the number of students achieving at a Grade 5 or above in English and maths GCSEs. We are also proud to have been awarded Gold Status by the Carnegie Centre of Excellence for Mental Health Award. We work hard to ensure we reduce workload on staff, allowing more time in the classroom to put our vision of students first, raising standards and transforming lives into practice.
To view the Teaching Staff recruitment booklet for English: Click Here
If you have any questions or would like to visit the school, please contact Sarah Harley (Head of Department) on S.Harley@grange.outwood.com.
The Teacher is expected to implement and use a wide range of teaching and learning strategies within the classroom, applying techniques like Assessment for Learning (AfL) to continually improve student performance. A core duty involves effectively using student level data to identify areas for development and raise standards.
This professional must be aware of strategies available for improving the learning and achievement of all students, alongside possessing a good understanding of curriculum developments within their specific subject area. The role requires maintaining high expectations for all students and effectively communicating with students and their parents, both orally and in writing. The teacher is expected to work collaboratively as part of a team, sharing good practice across the department, and demonstrating creativity in problem solving and a willingness to adopt new approaches.
Essential qualifications include a degree in an appropriate discipline related to the relevant subject and a teaching qualification coupled with Qualified Teacher Status (QTS). Required experience includes recent and relevant teaching experience (either in employment or training) and experience of assessment at Key Stage 3 and 4.
The successful candidate will be confident in using standard computer packages (word processing, email, and spreadsheets) and understand how these tools can enhance student learning. The role demands high levels of professionalism, including the ability to relate to students in a pleasant and sympathetic manner, and a capacity to recognise potential child safeguarding issues.
Outwood Grange Academies Trust (OGAT) places staff development at the heart of its strategy to deliver excellence, aiming to recruit, develop, and retain the best staff through the Outwood Institute of Education (OIE).
What will we do for you?
We offer a comprehensive package focused on career development, fair pay, and well-being:
Competitive Pay & Pension: Competitive salary, automatic pay progression, and enrolment in the Teachers' Pension Scheme.
Professional Growth: Access extensive CPD, progression to Masters level, and development via the Outwood Institute of Education and National Institute of Teaching.
Workload & Support: Committed to a manageable workload via our Workload Charter and guarantee a minimum of two hours of CPD each week.
Wellbeing & Flexibility: Enhanced occupational leave, flexible family policies, and access to a comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme.
Take the next step in your professional journey and apply now to access these exceptional development and system-wide impact opportunities.
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Outwood Grange Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All appointments are made in accordance with safer recruitment practices and the statutory guidance in Keeping Children Safe in Education. Online checks will be carried out on all shortlisted candidates, and all appointments are subject to an enhanced DBS check, satisfactory references and checks regarding suitability to work with children.
We are an award-winning multi-academy education trust with passion, purpose and people at our heart. We manage 41 transformative primary, junior, secondary and Post 16 schools up and down the North of England, from Redcar to Nottinghamshire, each celebrating very different identities but driven by a shared vision. Each academy is individually shaped around the community and children it serves.
We’re incredibly proud of how far our kind, creative and talented teachers and support staff go to make life better for our pupils and their families. It’s why we have built such a leading reputation in education and taken failing schools to Ofsted-rated outstanding in a record amount of time.
We are committed to putting students first, raising standards and transforming lives.
