Head of English
Cheltenham College
Gloucestershire
- Expired
- Salary:
- Commensurate with experience - Cheltenham College has its own highly competitive pay scale.
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2025
- Apply by:
- 5 December 2024
Job overview
Start date: September 2025
Contract type: Permanent
Location: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
Salary: Commensurate with experience - Cheltenham College has its own highly competitive pay scale.
The Appointment
A well-qualified and experienced teacher is required to lead this large and thriving department. This is a strategic role that would suit an ambitious teacher wishing to move onto a senior management position in due course. The appointee will have the scope to review and continue implementing the department’s strategic development plan and to contribute to the wider academic and intellectual development of the College as a whole.
The College continues its development, and academic standards and levels of attainment are rising. A level results in English are consistently excellent and GCSE results are also very strong.
The Head of English can expect to teach a reduced timetable.
The candidate / Personal attributes
In order to be successful in this role, you will need to possess the following skills and attributes:
- Outstanding teaching skills, including the ability to teach your specialism to A Level
- Ability to inspire a delight in the subject
- Demonstrate an excellent work ethic and a culture of high expectations, achievement and success amongst staff and pupils
- Desirable: The ability to mentor students to Oxbridge level
- Vision, leadership and ability to manage development and change
- Excellent administrative and organisational abilities
- Outstanding communication skills
- The desire to contribute to College’s rich co-curricular programme.
The School
Cheltenham College is a thriving community, with over 1100 pupils from the Prep and Senior Schools combined, cared for by 600 support and academic staff. We have high-class facilities for academic development, boarding, sport, music and drama, as well as a truly awe-inspiring chapel. We are a 24/7 operation, working a six-day week with Saturday school.
As staff, we enjoy the very wide range of activities that our pupils enjoy, with access to wonderful sports facilities for you and your family, a beautiful Common room, Library, and full IT provision.
College enjoys a thriving Common Room which offers a staff bar, regular social events and a supportive and collegiate atmosphere. Colleagues are generous in their support of new staff members and driven by a determination to ensure the very best outcomes for their students and colleagues.
Whilst we may seem a large organisation, we operate very much as a close community with a family feel.
Benefits include
- College offers a defined contribution Workplace Pension Plan plus a Flexible Benefits Pot. The scheme offered is through APTIS: Aviva Pensions Trust for Independent Schools and includes a generous College contribution.
- Permanent members of staff are entitled to a substantial reduction in fees for their children.
- Members of staff may use the College sports facilities (at staff allocated times).
- Subsidised health scheme membership (Benenden).
- Discounts and offers for College staff from local businesses and retailers.
Application process
To apply, please forward a completed application form, together with covering letter, electronically, to: recruitment@cheltenhamcollege.org
Closing date for applications is: 9am prompt on Thursday, 5 December 2024
Interviews are scheduled to take place on either: Monday, 9th or Tuesday, 10th December.
Early applications are advised as we reserve the right to interview and appoint a suitable candidate at any stage of the recruitment process.
Further details on what to expect from the interview process can be found here: https://www.cheltenhamcollege.org/about-us/our-staff/vacancies/
Cheltenham College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people in its recruitment and selection of job applicants and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be required to undergo an enhanced DBS check.
We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from suitably qualified individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships. We encourage all candidates to ensure that College is aware of your particular requirements should you be invited to interview.
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About Cheltenham College
One of the country’s leading coeducational independent schools for both day and boarding pupils, Cheltenham College offers outstanding all round education for pupils from 3 to 18.
While the Senior School (13 – 18) enjoys its beautiful setting and impressive grounds on Cheltenham’s Bath Road, the adjacent Preparatory School ( 3-13) occupies over 15 acres of woodland splendour, with its own lake and numerous sports fields. The youngest children (3-7) enter the wonderfully vibrant pre-prep department called Kingfishers, which has its own cottage and classrooms within the school.
From the age of 3 right through to 18, pupils are immersed into a community that is not only full to the brim of opportunities but importantly, one that is warm, friendly and utterly inclusive. Pastoral care across both schools is consistently highlighted by parents as excellent and the College takes great pride in treating each and every child as an individual. Children therefore develop not only as learners but as independent, confident and responsible young people with a great many talents and skills. They have confidence to question, to challenge, to think.
The breadth of Cheltenham College’s amenities is reflected in the diversity of activities and clubs; the Preparatory School alone offers over 40 clubs, societies and sports. In the Senior School, no pupil can fail to be tempted by the numerous outdoor pursuits, expeditions, community service activities or Humanitarian Aid projects. Around 30 clubs operate weekly in the Senior School, including shooting, eco ventures, pottery and film-making.
A vast number of sports teams are nationally reputed and every year a substantial number of pupils are chosen to represent England. Music also plays a vital part in school life, with pupils able to learn just about every orchestral instrument imaginable as well as participating in numerous choirs, bands and ensembles. Both schools stage several plays a year, from whole school productions to year group performances, and the art and design work (often on display in Thirlestaine House, the College’s very own 19th century mansion and gallery) is quite literally breathtaking.
Crucially, this focus on balanced education also ensures that Cheltenham College gets the very best out of its pupils academically. In the Preparatory School, there is a 100% Common Entrance pass rate and many pupils gain Senior School scholarships. In College, the more stretching iGCSE is offered in Maths, English Literature, Science, History and Geography and over 95% of school leavers go on to their first choice university.
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