Deputy Head of English

**Salary**:
Teachers Main & Upper Pay Scale + TLR2c

**Job type**:
Full Time, Permanent

**Start date**:
September 2025

11 March 2025

**Job overview**:
**Starting Date**: September 2025

**Salary**: Teacher’s Main/Upper Pay Scale - Inner London **(£38,766-£60,092)**

**Plus TLR 2c (£8,279)**

**Closing Date**: 9am Tuesday, 11th March 2025

**Do you want to join a dynamic, multi-cultural and friendly school where staff development is a priority and where you will be valued and appreciated?**

**Greenford High School is an inclusive, supportive and high achieving school with outstanding staff who have a passion for supporting students to succeed**

**We seek an experienced and proactive individual who is passionate about teaching English and leading others. We can offer you the opportunity to work with talented, hardworking students and an expert, collaborative team in our large, thriving school which has outstanding development and promotion opportunities.

**About Greenford High School**

We consistently achieve outcomes that place us in the top 5-10% of schools nationally for student progress. Many students gain places at top universities, but we are a truly comprehensive school and support each child to achieve, whatever their ability or circumstances. We value our students’ personal development and always support trips, visits, speakers and extra-curricular experiences where we can. We are known for our exceptionally strong relationships between staff and students and for our staff promotion opportunities across many areas of the school.

Our facilities are superb with a university campus style layout, extensive IT facilities, large, expansive playing fields and a purpose-built block for Year 7. We also have one of the largest Post-16 Centres in London with designated study and support areas.

**‘Learning to Succeed’**

Our motto encapsulates our vision; we are all on a continuous journey of learning, whilst trying to achieve success in everything that we do. Our aim is for students to fulfil their limitless potential - through perseverance and effort. We don’t select our students, but we do select our staff. Each highly trained staff member is here to support, guide, inspire our students so that whatever their starting point when they arrive, they leave with the world at their feet - equipped and ready to continue their learning through apprenticeships, at university and throughout their careers.

**Staff benefits include**:

- generous non-contact time
- small class sizes where possible
- financial assistance for Masters and further degrees
- family-friendly leave of absence policies
- plenty of opportunities to teach Post-16
- free on-site car parking spaces and secure bicycle storage
- access to ‘GymFlex’ - savings of up to 40% off 12-month gym memberships, with almost 4000 locations across the UK to choose from
- free access to onsite ‘Everyone Active’ sporting facilities and fitness gym
- onsite staff counselling and access to the ‘Workplace Options’ 24/7 staff support scheme
- staff social events and staff well-being sessions
- a partnership with the Institute of Education and Teach First with the opportunity to train and mentor student teachers
- an outstanding record of staff achieving promotion.

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What our students say about our teaching staff:_**
- _“ is one of my favourite teachers and makes PE even more enjoyable”_
- _“ helped me understand Geography really well”_
- _“ showed me Maths isn’t scary”_

**Our Staff**

**Greenford is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. Successful applicants will undergo mandatory pre-employment checks including reference checks with previous employment, criminal record checks with the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS), and an occupational health medical fitness assessment**

**About**Greenford High School**:
**Greenford High School**
- Lady Margaret Road, Southall
- Middlesex
- UB1 2GU
- United Kingdom

+44 20 8578 9152

**MISSION STATEMENT**

Learning to succeed is what Greenford High School is about: a love of learning; the motivation to succeed. Our aim is for students to fulfil their limitless potential - through perseverance and effort. Excellence, in the words of Aristotle, is not an act but a habit. We don’t select our students, but we do select our staff. Each highly trained teacher is here to support, guide, inspire our students so that whatever their starting point when they arrive, they leave with the world at their feet - equipped and ready to continue their learning, at university, apprenticeships and throughout their careers. We aim to provide the best opportunities - academic, cultural and sporting - and a sense of moral and social responsibility so that each child realises that humanity is their business and the common good their aim.