The St Thomas the Apostle College

London, SE15 2EB

ECT English Teacher

What skills and experience we're looking for

Salary: Inner London Pay Scale, MPS/UPS (£38,766 to £60,092)
Contract Type: Permanent, Full Time
To Start: July (ECTs) or September 2025
Location: SE15 2EB, London Borough of Southwark

We are looking to appoint a motivated and inspirational English Teacher to join our team of outstanding staff in this key curriculum area. This position is open to experienced teachers and ECTs.

In 2024, the outcomes for the department were:

- English:

o A Level; A*-A: 30%, A*-B: 67%, A*-C: 96%, A*-E: 96%: 100% (27 entries)

o GCSE (161 entries);

§ Language: 9-7: 31% and 9-5: 70%

§ Literature: 9-7: 33% and 9-5: 71%

St Thomas the Apostle school is a 11-18 Catholic boys’ school with a co-educational Sixth Form in South London. We are an outstanding school (2024 P8 of 1.42), 2017 TES Secondary School of the Year winners, and the 3rd best secondary school in the UK (according to The Times). We pride ourselves on our high expectations of all learners. This creates a calm learning environment where teachers can teach and students can learn.

This post offers you the opportunity to develop your teaching within an outstanding setting. We offer a highly supportive environment and are committed to ensuring outstanding teaching, behaviour, and achievement.

With our expanding Sixth Form and our desire and drive to continue moving forward, this is an exciting time for you to join our team.

We are looking for an excellent classroom practitioner who is passionate about their subject to join our team of highly skilled staff delivering outstanding lessons to our exceptional students.

Benefits of working at St Thomas the Apostle:

Private health care programme for ALL staff.
Two staff well-being days per full academic year.
Loyalty service payments.
Excellent record of staff development with opportunities for career advancement.
Annual travel loans for season tickets.
Cycle to work scheme.
Free use of school gym.
Free use of school swimming pool.
Regular staff social events.
Excellent public transport links.
Free onsite parking.
Working at one of the highest performing schools in the country. Nationally recognised OUTSTANDING with extremely high levels of pupil engagement and impeccable behaviour.
Outstanding facilities.
Generous staff loadings and lower than average pupil to staff ratios.
New, modern, light and airy building.
Safe and secure cycle storage.
Pastries on a Friday morning.

ECT Programme

We run a structured and highly supportive ECT programme here at St Thomas the Apostle School. Our aim is to help you continue on your path towards being an outstanding practitioner with a 2-year programme of support, induction and training. The London South Teaching School Hub leads ECTs in their training, using the UCL Full Induction programme. ECTs also have support from an assigned mentor, whom they meet regularly for support and guidance.

The ECT programme includes:

Regular informal (and occasional formal) observations with open dialogue and clear targets
An assigned subject-specialist ECT Mentor
Additional support from the ECT Induction Tutor and the Teaching and Learning team
A reduced timetable (to accommodate the fact that everything takes a little longer when you are starting out!)
An environment of high expectation and outstanding behaviour which means you can concentrate on the important bits – teaching!
An 'open door' policy where you are always welcome to pop in and observe other staff to help develop your own practice

Further information on the ECT programme is available on our website.

Visits to the school are warmly encouraged, please contact Ellie or Francisca at the details below to arrange.

St Thomas the Apostle College is actively seeking to increase the proportion of our workforce who come from diverse background. We particularly welcome applications from people of Black, Asian and minority ethnic descent.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our school is an equal opportunities employer and committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. DBS check required.

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