What skills and experience we’re looking for
The Priory Pembroke is an oversubscribed Academy seeking a positive and forward-thinking Head of English to join our exceptional staff body. The successful candidate will teach English up to and including GCSE and will be a creative, thoughtful leader of an expert team.
The successful candidate will join a team of specialists who are proud of our diverse and inclusive student‑centred culture. This is an exciting time to join us as over the last two years we have embedded and enhanced our systems and procedures to ensure that students are happy and productive and excel through exceptional pastoral support and a broad academic curriculum.
A Pembroke teacher is an inspiring and innovative professional, with enthusiasm in abundance and who has high expectations for all of their students. We have a particular focus on improving outcomes for our disadvantaged students with reading and writing across the curriculum as key drivers for success.
What the school offers its staff
We express our vision, culture and values by Achieving Together through consistently high standards and expectations through the values of wisdom, courage, generosity, curiosity and passion.
The Priory Federation of Academies Trust is an established and supportive MAT. Our scale allows both flexibility and creativity in terms of career development, with permanent and secondment opportunities across our academies allowing exciting career pathways. We are determined in our mission to improve the life chances of our students and we are equally ambitious for, and committed to, the wellbeing and development of our staff. All our staff benefit from comprehensive induction, extensive CPD opportunities, our Employee Benefits Programme and excellent support from our HR team. The Trust follows national school teachers’ pay and conditions and adheres to the national pay recommendations.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification, Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), medical online and social media prohibition, from teaching right to work, satisfactory references, suitability to work with children. You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
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