Teacher of English - Maternity Cover - Werneth School
Contract: Contract 
Closing date for applications:
16 May 2025, 9.00am 
Job Advert
Teacher of English (Maternity Cover)
Contract type: Fixed Term 1 year maternity cover
Location: Werneth School
Required from: September 2025 or earlier
Salary: MPS/UPS
Closing date: 9am Friday 16th May 2025
Interview date: TBC
We are seeking to appoint a motivated English teacher to join our team. The English department at Werneth School is built around an ethos of collaboration. We are a team of 15 subject specialists, including a librarian, and a literacy intervention mentor. The department leadership team is made up of a Subject Leader, a Second in Department, and a Coordinator. The department also includes two members of SLT, and the school SENDCo.
We are based in dedicated English classrooms, have a literacy intervention room for targeted support and have a well stocked and managed school library. There is a wide range of experience and expertise across the department well planned units of study as well as a strong focus on the professional development of members of the department with CPD sessions delivered on a regular basis.
Our aim as a department is to encourage students to be inquisitive; to ask questions of the world around them. Our curriculum is built with this aim in mind with a clear 5 year journey for all students.
For further details of this exciting opportunity, please see the job description and person specification.
About ELT
Education Learning Trust is a Multi-Academy Trust, educating over 3500 pupils from age 2 to 16 in the Greater Manchester area. We are very proud of our inclusive ethos to Collaborate, Empower and Achieve and provide over 450 employees with an inspiring and innovative place to work, with exceptional training and development opportunities.
As a Trust employee you will receive excellent benefits, including a highly competitive salary, well-regarded pension scheme, excellent career development opportunities and support for your health and wellbeing, with our award-winning employee assistance programme.
Our vision at ELT is to create an exceptional learning journey for all, by providing:
● exciting, innovative and challenging learning communities
● school improvement strategies arising from evidenced based research and professional enquiry
● opportunities for professional development and leadership
● a celebration of the diversity and uniqueness of individual settings
● Innovation in practice by recognising the value of learning partnerships, both locally and nationally
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
We ensure that we have a range of policies and procedures that promote safeguarding and safer working practices. This is in line with statutory guidance including Keeping Children Safe in Education and The Education Act 2002.
All offers of employment are subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records, online checks and vetting checks. It is an offence to apply for a role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.
We are committed to fulfilling our Equality Duty obligations, including valuing equality and diversity and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
We are committed to employment practices that promote diversity and inclusion in employment regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, sex, marriage and civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity status, race, religion or belief.
We expect the successful candidate to have the necessary standard of spoken English, as described under Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016, the Public Sector fluency duty that requires state funded schools to ensure candidates for their customer facing roles have the necessary standard of spoken English (or English or Welsh in Wales).
Candidates should apply by completing the ELT application form, CVs alone will not be accepted in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE).