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Director of Teaching & Learning - English
| Posting date: | 14 May 2026 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 20 May 2026 |
| Location: | Hull, East Yorkshire, HU6 9BP |
| Company: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 3d38839e-41c2-4721-8ae5-abac7af3c1d0 |
Summary
What skills and experience we're looking for
As our Director of Teaching and Learning for English, you will be at the forefront of driving consistent, direct, efficient and effective teaching across the department – modelling excellence, coaching colleagues, shaping curriculum delivery and ensuring every lesson reflects clarity, ambition and impact. This is a powerful leadership role designed to accelerate your professional growth while enabling you to shape and strengthen teaching practice across the English department.
This is an exciting opportunity for an exceptional classroom practitioner to work in close partnership with the Director of English, leading the development of day to day classroom practice and helping to build a department recognised for challenge, precision and high expectations. You will play a key role in delivering teaching that is direct, efficient, ambitious and deeply rooted in our trust’s commitment to inclusion and high standards. It is an ideal next step for a passionate English specialist who wants to shape one of the strongest English teams in Hull and the East Riding of Yorkshire.
What the school offers its staff
Our Ethos
RESPECT:
RESPECT typifies the values we expect every student to exhibit. Respecting each other, their environment and their education, to name but a few of our core values. This social and emotional development is supported and enabled by an exciting enrichment programme that offers pupils opportunities to learn new skills and participate in a wide range of learning taking them beyond our curriculum and the classroom. Our ‘pledges’ promote self-reflection, soft-skill development and enhanced cultural capital together with offering students great opportunities to develop into confident young citizens keen to contribute to their community.
Working Together
Feedback always welcome
Developing a cohesive bond between home and school is of utmost importance to us. If we share a continuity and consistency of message our children have a significantly increased chance of success. We look forward to an enjoyable and fulfilling relationship with you in the coming years as we work closely together in pursuit of this goal. We trust that parents, guardians and carers will engage fully with all aspects of Academy life and we welcome your comments and feedback.
Sirius Academy North… where stars are born.
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.
As our Director of Teaching and Learning for English, you will be at the forefront of driving consistent, direct, efficient and effective teaching across the department – modelling excellence, coaching colleagues, shaping curriculum delivery and ensuring every lesson reflects clarity, ambition and impact. This is a powerful leadership role designed to accelerate your professional growth while enabling you to shape and strengthen teaching practice across the English department.
This is an exciting opportunity for an exceptional classroom practitioner to work in close partnership with the Director of English, leading the development of day to day classroom practice and helping to build a department recognised for challenge, precision and high expectations. You will play a key role in delivering teaching that is direct, efficient, ambitious and deeply rooted in our trust’s commitment to inclusion and high standards. It is an ideal next step for a passionate English specialist who wants to shape one of the strongest English teams in Hull and the East Riding of Yorkshire.
What the school offers its staff
Our Ethos
RESPECT:
RESPECT typifies the values we expect every student to exhibit. Respecting each other, their environment and their education, to name but a few of our core values. This social and emotional development is supported and enabled by an exciting enrichment programme that offers pupils opportunities to learn new skills and participate in a wide range of learning taking them beyond our curriculum and the classroom. Our ‘pledges’ promote self-reflection, soft-skill development and enhanced cultural capital together with offering students great opportunities to develop into confident young citizens keen to contribute to their community.
Working Together
Feedback always welcome
Developing a cohesive bond between home and school is of utmost importance to us. If we share a continuity and consistency of message our children have a significantly increased chance of success. We look forward to an enjoyable and fulfilling relationship with you in the coming years as we work closely together in pursuit of this goal. We trust that parents, guardians and carers will engage fully with all aspects of Academy life and we welcome your comments and feedback.
Sirius Academy North… where stars are born.
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.