Teacher of English
| Posting date: | 01 May 2026 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 05 May 2026 |
| Location: | Birmingham, West Midlands, B17 8QB |
| Company: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | bfa48b7e-4baa-4593-85c2-f9d28145b8ed |
Summary
What skills and experience we're looking for
Are you an enthusiastic and committed teacher of English looking to make an impact on young people's lives?
King Edward VI Lordswood School for Girls is seeking to appoint someone who believes passionately about making a difference to the lives of every student and who does so with integrity, humility and relentless positivity.
The English department at King Edward VI Lordswood School for Girls is an exceptionally successful one, consistently helping students attain outstanding GCSE grades and regularly achieves a Progress 8 score that is among the highest for English in the whole of Birmingham.
As a department, our vision is to instil in each of our students a love of reading and writing, and to promote a genuine sense of intellectual curiosity. By exploring a range of texts from different eras, genres and backgrounds, we aim to broaden students’ horizons and open minds: that is, to encourage an appreciation of different ideas, viewpoints and beliefs, as well as an understanding of the ways that language and structure can be used to create meaning and shape messages.
Through our curriculum, learners will become confident readers, writers and speakers, with discussion and debate forming the heart of English lessons. Beyond the classroom, we run a weekly Debate Club and coordinate the school’s official student magazine, Loudspeaker, to ensure that our students have additional opportunities to express themselves creatively through speech and writing. Ultimately, we want students to discover the same passion for our subject – a love of reading, writing, and discussing ideas – that their teachers feel.
The successful candidate will be joining a committed and forward thinking team of staff, with opportunities for career development. The post is suitable for a current classroom teacher or for an Early Career teacher.
In return we are offering the successful candidate the opportunity to work in a thriving community, composed of kind and respectful students who are dedicated to their learning and colleagues who are caring, compassionate and committed. Staff and students have extremely positive relationships underpinned by our school value of ‘respect’. We are a happy and caring school which values and takes pride in diversity and celebrates individuality.
If our vision and values match your own philosophy, we would welcome an application.
What the school offers its staff
About King Edward VI Lordswood School for Girls
About the school
King Edward VI Lordswood School for Girls offers an excellent academic education within a happy and purposeful community. High quality teaching and valuing each individual are central to our approach.
All students are encouraged to realise their fullest potential, to live and work in harmony with others and to be ambitious for their futures. Students are supported in their work by a team of highly professional and caring staff.
Student outcomes are significantly above national figures, but this is not what makes us most proud. Our school is a community and, whilst we value academic success, this is not the only objective of our school. We pride ourselves in growing good citizens, we help to develop individuals who have the knowledge, skills and the desire to make a difference to the world in which they live.
“Together, we thrive and add value to the world” (mission statement)
We achieve this by supporting our students to become ready, respectful and resilient individuals. These strands carry through all aspects of life at our school.
“This welcoming and empowering school inspires pupils to reach their potential. Pupils are ready to learn, respectful in conversation and resilient in the face of challenges. They feel safe in school. Pupils know staff are there to help them when they need it.” (Ofsted 2024)
We always put students at the heart of every decision that we make and will continue to do so whilst we strive for constant improvement.
Thank you for taking time to explore if King Edward VI Lordswood School for Girls would be the right school for you. We hope you love our school as much as we do. If you cannot find the information you are looking for, please don’t hesitate to contact the school office who will do everything that they can to assist.
Why join us
Excellent working conditions that include:
• Supportive, enthusiastic and committed colleagues
• Operate in line with school teacher terms and conditions
• Automatic enrolment in workplace pension scheme
• Subscribed to the DfE wellbeing charter
• Additional Trust training day each year
• Access to a range of CPD and training tailored to your needs
• Unlimited access to TES develop
• Opportunities to develop both within the school and across the Trust
• Catering on training days
• Employee assist programme (including counselling services)
• Cycle to work scheme
• Annual flu vaccination (for those who don’t qualify under the NHS)
• Free eye test
• Software to support with role completion e.g. Studybugs, GCSE pod
• Buddy system for first year of employment
• Workroom for all teachers
• Free car parking for all staff
• Free laptop to complete school work
• Free exercise classes
• Free tea, coffee, milk and sugar
• Free access to TES magazine
• Free access to ‘The Key for School Leaders’
• Only one meeting/after school event per week
• Consistent night for all after school activities
• Some parents’ evenings are online
• Staff recognition programme
• Staff wellbeing committee
• Social events (in school and out of school)
• Reprographics department to undertake printing
About the Trust
The King Edward VI Foundation, Birmingham, is a progressive charitable organisation which has supported excellence in education across the City since 1552. Our schools are diverse in nature but have a common purpose and commitment to achieving our mission of:
“Making Birmingham the best place to be educated in the UK”.
Our Academy Trust currently consists of two independent schools, six selective, and six non selective academies. Our recent expansion into a wider diversity of local communities is enabling us to accelerate our strategies for improving the life chances of young people in Birmingham, whatever their background.
The King Edward VI Academy Trust Birmingham (“the Academy Trust”) was established in 2017 and is made up of the academies outlined above. The academies receive back office central support services including governance, from the Foundation Office (a central support services function), with several staff being seconded from the Foundation to deliver support services to the Academy Trust and the academies themselves.
Our highly focused five-year strategy aims to build on our existing strengths and heritage and deliver our ambitious growth strategy which aims to bring in a further five academies over the next five years.
Commitment to safeguarding
King Edward VI Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. Shortlisted candidates will have online checks undertaken before interview. Successful applicants be subject to an enhanced DBS check. Where a role involves engaging in regulated activity relevant to children, it is a criminal offence to apply for the role if the applicant is barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. KEVI is committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.
Are you an enthusiastic and committed teacher of English looking to make an impact on young people's lives?
King Edward VI Lordswood School for Girls is seeking to appoint someone who believes passionately about making a difference to the lives of every student and who does so with integrity, humility and relentless positivity.
The English department at King Edward VI Lordswood School for Girls is an exceptionally successful one, consistently helping students attain outstanding GCSE grades and regularly achieves a Progress 8 score that is among the highest for English in the whole of Birmingham.
As a department, our vision is to instil in each of our students a love of reading and writing, and to promote a genuine sense of intellectual curiosity. By exploring a range of texts from different eras, genres and backgrounds, we aim to broaden students’ horizons and open minds: that is, to encourage an appreciation of different ideas, viewpoints and beliefs, as well as an understanding of the ways that language and structure can be used to create meaning and shape messages.
Through our curriculum, learners will become confident readers, writers and speakers, with discussion and debate forming the heart of English lessons. Beyond the classroom, we run a weekly Debate Club and coordinate the school’s official student magazine, Loudspeaker, to ensure that our students have additional opportunities to express themselves creatively through speech and writing. Ultimately, we want students to discover the same passion for our subject – a love of reading, writing, and discussing ideas – that their teachers feel.
The successful candidate will be joining a committed and forward thinking team of staff, with opportunities for career development. The post is suitable for a current classroom teacher or for an Early Career teacher.
In return we are offering the successful candidate the opportunity to work in a thriving community, composed of kind and respectful students who are dedicated to their learning and colleagues who are caring, compassionate and committed. Staff and students have extremely positive relationships underpinned by our school value of ‘respect’. We are a happy and caring school which values and takes pride in diversity and celebrates individuality.
If our vision and values match your own philosophy, we would welcome an application.
What the school offers its staff
About King Edward VI Lordswood School for Girls
About the school
King Edward VI Lordswood School for Girls offers an excellent academic education within a happy and purposeful community. High quality teaching and valuing each individual are central to our approach.
All students are encouraged to realise their fullest potential, to live and work in harmony with others and to be ambitious for their futures. Students are supported in their work by a team of highly professional and caring staff.
Student outcomes are significantly above national figures, but this is not what makes us most proud. Our school is a community and, whilst we value academic success, this is not the only objective of our school. We pride ourselves in growing good citizens, we help to develop individuals who have the knowledge, skills and the desire to make a difference to the world in which they live.
“Together, we thrive and add value to the world” (mission statement)
We achieve this by supporting our students to become ready, respectful and resilient individuals. These strands carry through all aspects of life at our school.
“This welcoming and empowering school inspires pupils to reach their potential. Pupils are ready to learn, respectful in conversation and resilient in the face of challenges. They feel safe in school. Pupils know staff are there to help them when they need it.” (Ofsted 2024)
We always put students at the heart of every decision that we make and will continue to do so whilst we strive for constant improvement.
Thank you for taking time to explore if King Edward VI Lordswood School for Girls would be the right school for you. We hope you love our school as much as we do. If you cannot find the information you are looking for, please don’t hesitate to contact the school office who will do everything that they can to assist.
Why join us
Excellent working conditions that include:
• Supportive, enthusiastic and committed colleagues
• Operate in line with school teacher terms and conditions
• Automatic enrolment in workplace pension scheme
• Subscribed to the DfE wellbeing charter
• Additional Trust training day each year
• Access to a range of CPD and training tailored to your needs
• Unlimited access to TES develop
• Opportunities to develop both within the school and across the Trust
• Catering on training days
• Employee assist programme (including counselling services)
• Cycle to work scheme
• Annual flu vaccination (for those who don’t qualify under the NHS)
• Free eye test
• Software to support with role completion e.g. Studybugs, GCSE pod
• Buddy system for first year of employment
• Workroom for all teachers
• Free car parking for all staff
• Free laptop to complete school work
• Free exercise classes
• Free tea, coffee, milk and sugar
• Free access to TES magazine
• Free access to ‘The Key for School Leaders’
• Only one meeting/after school event per week
• Consistent night for all after school activities
• Some parents’ evenings are online
• Staff recognition programme
• Staff wellbeing committee
• Social events (in school and out of school)
• Reprographics department to undertake printing
About the Trust
The King Edward VI Foundation, Birmingham, is a progressive charitable organisation which has supported excellence in education across the City since 1552. Our schools are diverse in nature but have a common purpose and commitment to achieving our mission of:
“Making Birmingham the best place to be educated in the UK”.
Our Academy Trust currently consists of two independent schools, six selective, and six non selective academies. Our recent expansion into a wider diversity of local communities is enabling us to accelerate our strategies for improving the life chances of young people in Birmingham, whatever their background.
The King Edward VI Academy Trust Birmingham (“the Academy Trust”) was established in 2017 and is made up of the academies outlined above. The academies receive back office central support services including governance, from the Foundation Office (a central support services function), with several staff being seconded from the Foundation to deliver support services to the Academy Trust and the academies themselves.
Our highly focused five-year strategy aims to build on our existing strengths and heritage and deliver our ambitious growth strategy which aims to bring in a further five academies over the next five years.
Commitment to safeguarding
King Edward VI Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. Shortlisted candidates will have online checks undertaken before interview. Successful applicants be subject to an enhanced DBS check. Where a role involves engaging in regulated activity relevant to children, it is a criminal offence to apply for the role if the applicant is barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. KEVI is committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.