Teacher of English

Harris Academy Greenwich is a happy and successful inner-city London 11-18 school with a thriving 6th Form, and a brand new state-of-the-art building. It is a school where we are as passionate about developing our staff as we are about developing our students. The Harris Federation is a highly successful group of schools who serve many of the most deprived areas of London. We are collaborative, enterprising and share a passion for turning lives around, yet each school is autonomous and free to set its own ethos, vision and strategy for how it does that. Perhaps this is the school you’ve been looking for.

Our English team is searching for a talented English teacher to join them.

We have two English positions available because of a long term maternity leave and a long term paternity leave from January.  Both positions are permanent because of expanding pupil numbers.

What is our team looking for?

We are always on the search for authentic teachers who enjoy what they do, who have great subject knowledge, charisma and have a strong sense of moral purpose.

The successful candidate will have:

• QTS (or equivalent)
• Passion for education, courage, integrity
• A hunger for ‘stepping into your greatness’
• A flair for working with young people
• A great team player who will fit well with our optimistic and positive culture
• The ability to teach great lessons

Why work at Harris Academy Greenwich?

Our staff often refer to their departments as ‘a family’.  They came up with 20 reasons why staff should work here...there were more, but we couldn’t fit 27 on one page.  Check them out and our ‘About Us’ video on the school website:

http://www.harrisgreenwich.org.uk/530/harris-academy-greenwich-careers

 
“I’ve recently joined the school and am really happy here already.  The support and training is great, and the systems they have for managing behaviour allows me to get on with the business of teaching.  The kids are lovely but if you do have a problem you just email ‘on call’ and someone from SLT is in your room within three minutes to help you solve it.”  Bill, Geography

What are we passionate about?

“I have the great privilege of not only seeing young people grow and flourish, but providing opportunities for staff to step into their greatness in an environment that feels really safe and rewarding.  We’ve worked hard on making this a brilliant place to work and learn – naturally we are all passionately student focused and we touch lives every day, but that shouldn’t come at the sacrifice of staff.  I believe you can have it all in a school and experience tells me that happy teachers make great teachers so we work hard on that.  We don’t grade lessons, we don’t create fear in the workplace and we certainly don’t burn out our staff.  Indeed, we are incredibly mindful of our ‘life/work balance’ which I hope will be refreshing to hear for staff in other schools who feel constantly bashed and ground down by relentless pressure from above.  What we aim to do is engage, motivate, energise.  It’s such fun teaching here.”  George McMillan, Principal

Forget what you’ve heard about big, bad Federations. This is a school that really tries to keep staff morale high, that gives you a sense of purpose, a sense of autonomy, a sense of trust and continual support and challenge to achieve mastery.  Come pay us a visit and see for yourself.

We look forward to meeting you. If you would like a completely confidential chat with the Principal, please contact George McMillan direct by email: g.mcmillan@harrisgreenwich.org.uk.

To arrange a visit, please contact the HR Manager, Nicky Butler, on n.butler@harrisgreenwich.org.uk.

Harris Greenwich: Step into your Greatness

Harris Academies are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check. In line with our commitments to safeguarding, the Harris Federation uses preferred agencies and is unable to work with any agencies where Terms of Business have not been agreed by both parties prior to an engagement.