Role: English Teacher
Academy: Outwood Academy Ormesby
Start Date: September 2026
Salary (Actual Salary): £32,916 (M1) to £51,048 (U3)
Working Pattern: 1.0 FTE, Part time also to be 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 the vacancy at Outwood Academy Ormesby in Middlesbrough.
As Principal, I'm extremely proud of our academy, where everyone is driven to help young people thrive and meet their full potential in one of the most deprived areas in the country. We are committed to the value that ‘every interaction counts’ and work relentlessly to transform students' lives and develop positive community relationships.
We seek colleagues who value a commitment to enriching student lives, collaboration, a growth mindset, and a relentless drive to ‘turn our best into our normal’.
As part of the Outwood Family, committed to transforming lives and raising standards, we would be delighted to welcome you to our team if you share our passion for improving the lives of young people and our wider community.
About the Department:
The English Department at Outwood Academy Ormesby is a successful team of English teachers and two one-to-one tutors. The department is friendly and supportive, and staff in the team put students at the heart of their discussions and all they do. There is a combination of experienced teachers, ECTs, and senior leaders in the team who all work hard to ensure students are first and everyone feels supported.
We have a large allocation of classrooms, with full-time staff teaching entirely in one room. Classrooms have video projectors, large screens and visualisers. 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. We have recently developed our KS3 Curriculum to embed immersive reading at the start of each new scheme of learning. We want to engage students with texts that cover a wide range of genres and themes. Students study work from Shakespeare across KS3 and explore texts such as Asha and the Spirit Bird, Boy 87, Of Mice and Men, Ghost Boys, Blood Brothers and Heroes.
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 tutor time, Accelerated Reader lessons, 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 and our Library Coordinator leads on Rapid Plus to support fluency and comprehension.
In KS4, 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 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.
If you have any questions or would like to visit the school, please contact Helen Murphy (HR Assistant) at