English Teacher

Winton Community Academy is seeking an experienced English teacher to join their supportive team from September 2025. The role offers a competitive salary, benefits, and opportunities for additional responsibilities, including mentoring PGCE students. The school prides itself on a positive work-life balance and a collaborative environment, supported by a well-resourced English department. Winton Community Academy, known for its excellent facilities and community relationships, received a 'Good' rating from Ofsted in 2023. Lift Schools promotes diversity and offers a variety of career development opportunities while ensuring safeguarding and welfare for all pupils.

English Teacher
Winton Community Academy
London Road, Andover, Hampshire, SP10 2PS
United Kingdom
Salary: Main Pay Range/Upper Pay Range + well-being cash plan + pension scheme (TPS) + additional Lift Schools benefits
Hours: Full Time
Contract type: Permanent
Start date: September 2025
Potential for additional responsibility (ie. to lead across KS3) for an experienced candidate
With you in our classrooms, we can change lives.
We’re looking for a dedicated, experienced English teacher to join our warm, supportive team at Winton Community Academy, in our vibrant English department.
Ready for your talents to be nurtured?
Come and play a vital role in ensuring our students receive the education they deserve. In collaboration with colleagues, you will deliver outstanding teaching to every child, in every classroom, every day. At our school, we ensure that you have the time and space needed to get on with what matters most – educating – so we remove as much administrative burden from you as possible.
We are passionate about developing talented teachers and as part of our offer, there is potential to lead across an area of responsibility within the English department, for ambitious, driven candidates. Or for those who are passionate about coaching and developing teachers, we can also offer the opportunity to mentor PGCE/ITT students. As part of our trust network, we can offer you the possibility to gain your National Professional qualifications at senior leadership level.
Our English department has a well-resourced curriculum and the team works really collaboratively, making the most of their protected co-planning time. We strongly believe in a healthy work-life balance so there is a streamlined approach to marking and assessment, which runs alongside digital tools to reduce teacher workload.
We also benefit from library links to curriculum time. English is popular subject at Winton and our students love to get involved in field trips and extra-curricular activities. The team is vibrant, energetic and fun and loves to collaborate, share and work together to make every day interesting and rewarding.
This is an opportunity to make a tangible impact on the lives of young people.
About Winton Community Academy:
We are a popular secondary school with a great reputation within the local community. The school boasts fantastic facilities, which includes a MUGA, a recently refurbished library and gymnasium, new music suite, dance studios, animal management area and expansive grounds. In addition to this, we have recently celebrated the opening of our brand new £5m expansion building, which includes a full size school hall, two state of the art science laboratories and two additional classrooms, as well as new toilet facilities. We are also pleased to have recently opened our renovated ‘Inclusion Space’ which has bespoke classrooms and breakout space for our nurture and SEND students.
The school maintained a ‘Good’ grade in the latest visit by Ofsted in 2023. We pride ourselves on a culture of high support and high expectations, and we have excellent relationships with families and the community who work closely with us to ensure every child receives an excellent education.
Who is Lift Schools?
We’re a diverse and inclusive network of schools with one clear mission; to provide an excellent education to every child – in every classroom, every day. And we do this across each of our 57 schools. As with our students, we want our team to be empowered to do their best work, supported by the best leadership they’ve ever had.
We acknowledge and appreciate the exceptional efforts of everyone here in making this an incredible organisation.
We offer you:
Career development and training: Access a wide range of statutory and developmental training to boost your career.
Our partnership with One World powers our innovative Instructional Excellence Program. We also offer a comprehensive range of CPD programs, including Ambition Institute’s Early Career and NPQ offerings, tailored to both individual and network needs.
Generous benefits: From your pension plan to healthcare and financial support, we’ve got you covered.
Lifestyle perks: Enjoy discounted gym memberships, travel deals, and even electric vehicle incentives.
The role is due to commence from September 2025. This is a full time, permanent position.
Closing date: 24 May 2025
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive an overwhelming response. All candidates are advised to refer to the job description and person specification before making an application.
Lift Schools are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils, and we expect all our people and volunteers to share this commitment. We adopt a fair and consistent recruitment process which is inline with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. This includes online checks for shortlisted candidates. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check.
Lift Schools embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. Job share, part-time and flexible working opportunities will be considered.
We are a Disability Confident Employer and there is a guaranteed interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
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