English Teacher Maternity Cover

About this Role

We are seeking to appoint a Classrom Teacher of English to join Maiden Erlegh Trust on a fixed term maternity cover basis. This role offers the opportunity to deliver highly effective teaching within a collaborative Trust environment, ensuring that all students make strong progress, achieve high academic standards and experience a safe, purposeful and ambitious learning environment.

You will be responsible for planning and delivering engaging English lessons across your allocated timetable, contributing to curriculum development and supporting students to achieve their full potential. You will also take on tutor responsibilities and play a key role in supporting student wellbeing, behaviour and academic progress.

• Plan,resource and deliver highly effective English lessons in line with Trust frameworks and schemes of work
• Inspire and motivate students to engage positively in their learning and achieve high academic standards
• Use assessment effectively to monitor progress, inform planning and close attainment gaps
• Maintain high standards of behaviour for learning and contribute to a safe and purposeful classroom environment
• Actas a form tutor, supporting students' personal development, attendance and wellbeing
• Work collaboratively with colleagues, parents and carers to support student progress
• Contribute to curriculum enrichment, including trips, visits and wider learning opportunities
• Uphold Trust policies including safeguarding, behaviour, assessment and reporting requirements
• Participate fully in appraisal, professional development and wider school life

• Holds Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) and a relevant degree
• Hasstrong subject knowledge in English and a passion for teaching the subject
• Demonstrates the ability to deliver high-quality teaching and secure strong student outcomes
• Is committed to inclusion and ensuring all students, including those with SEND and disadvantaged students, achieve their potential
• Has effective behaviour management skills and the ability to create a positive learning environment
• Communicates effectively with students, colleagues and parents
• Is organised, reflective and committed to continuous professional development
• Iswilling to contribute to the wider life of the school and Trust

Maiden Erlegh School is a highly successful comprehensive school for students from 11-18 years old, situated in Lower Earley, near Reading. Our students are a delight to work with and relationships between students and staff are extremely positive and constructive. Students are keen to learn, curious,respectful, polite and fun. They rise to challenges positively and enthusiastically and have high expectations of themselves. This is why they achieve such impressive academic and personal successes, and our results continue to improve year on year - this year placing us in the top 50 schoolsnationally for Progress 8.

We also have a thriving 6th form and manyof our students stay on to study here.

Our staff are dedicated, talented professionals who gothe extra mile for the students because they are committed to helping them realise their dreams, achieve the greatest possible success, overcome any personal challenges. Teachers are passionate about their subjects and focusedon delivering varied and stimulating lessons. Support staff work tirelessly toensure the school can provide the best education possible. We have an excellent professional development offering for all of our staff which helps ensure theyare satisfied in their work.

We seek to develop and motivate our colleagues atevery opportunity, and we offer a very warm welcome to all our new team members when they join us.

Maiden Erlegh Trust is a growing community of schools across Berkshire and Oxfordshire, working together todeliver the best possible education for every child and young person. With around 800 staff and 5,000 students across nine schools, including primary,secondary, special, and alternative provision, we are proud of the diversity that shapes our expertise.

We Aim High, Be Inclusive, and Work Together. These values drive our focus on high-quality education for all,through collaboration, inclusion, and continuous improvement.

Through the Maiden Erlegh Institute, colleagues access high-quality professional learning at every stageof their career, supported by mentoring, leadership opportunities, and ourannual MET Staff Conference-a day that unites our whole team in sharing best practice and…