Teacher of English

Teacher of English

Contract: Permanent

Hours/working pattern: Full Time

Salary/hourly rate: M1-UPS3 (£31,650 – £49,084)

Location: Lady Lumley’s School

Closing Date: Monday 19th May 2025 at 9am

Interview Date: Week commencing 19th May 2025

Start Date: 1st September 2025

Our Opportunity

Lady Lumley’s School has an exciting opportunity for an ambitious English specialist to join our welcoming community. You would be joining an ambitious department led by a collaborative and determined Curriculum Leader. Students at Lady Lumley’s value English from Year 7 to 13; we are looking for a candidate to innovate and enhance our students’ success. Lady Lumley’s is a ‘Good’ school where we strive to ‘Be our Best’, this role offers opportunities for professional development and the job satisfaction of working with fabulous staff and students.

Lady Lumley’s School

Lady Lumley’s is an 11-18, mixed comprehensive, community school serving the town of Pickering, surrounding villages, and warmly welcomes students from Scarborough to Rosedale. We strive to ‘Be our best’, working to improve the experience for all students, staff, and the community. Our broad and balanced curriculum is ambitious for all, and we place great value in academic qualifications alongside the arts and practical subjects.

Set in an idyllic location, we make the most of fantastic sporting facilities and run an immensely popular Duke of Edinburgh experience alongside over 30 Enrichment Clubs. Our students and staff are loyal to Lady Lumley’s and are committed to improving our learning journey, whilst celebrating success.

Lady Lumley’s benefits from the knowledge and experience of Coast and Vale Trust. We retain our unique school identity with shared ambitious vision. Through leadership development, collaboration and investment. Lady Lumley’s is enabled to maintain its identity whilst belonging to a larger family of schools.

Our Trust

Coast and Vale Learning Trust will shortly be joining Delta Academies Trust, a high-performing Multi Academy Trust that is transforming educational outcomes for students in some of the most deprived areas in the North of England.

As part of Delta Academies Trust, you’ll have access to ongoing CPD (both internally and externally) with the opportunity to further develop your skills and career alike. You’ll join a large network of colleagues across the trust, meaning lots of collaboration and peer support both within your academy and beyond, as well access to an extensive range of employee benefits that focus on your financial, physical and mental wellbeing.

Coast and Vale Learning Trust was founded by Scalby Secondary School but has grown over the last few years to include Newby and Scalby Primary School, Friarage Primary School and the Scarborough University Technical College (SUTC) in Scarborough, Lady Lumley’s Secondary School in Pickering and Filey School. Our ambition is to continue to welcome new schools into our Trust where we can add capacity, resources, improvement and make sure all our young people have access to the very best education.

The aim of the Trust is to serve all the education community along the North Yorkshire Coast and down the Vale of Pickering. We are committed to supporting all schools in becoming great schools, whether they are part of Coast and Vale Learning Trust or not. The learners of our community deserve the best education regardless of their background or location.

Choosing where to work and who to work for is one of the vitally important decisions in life.  In choosing to work for Coast and Vale Learning Trust you would be joining a team of colleagues dedicated to transforming the lives of 3000 children and young people.

We have a simple vision in wanting our schools to be places ‘where children and staff thrive’. Coast and Vale Learning Trust will work tirelessly to make this a reality.

Working For Us

As well as being committed to your ongoing development and training we also offer a range of employee benefits including a competitive salary, access to a government pension scheme, an employee assistance programme as well as a variety of retail discounts.

Application Process

Please follow the link to My New Term: https://mynewterm.com/jobs/148602/EDV-2025-LLS-78140

For any information or questions please email Kathryn Holbrook, PA to the Head on k.holbrook@ll.coastandvale.academy or call 01751 472846.

We do not accept CVs.

If you would like to discuss this vacancy or arrange to visit us, please contact as described above.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy should we receive an overwhelming response.

We are committed to safeguarding and protecting the children and young people we work with and expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment.  As such, all posts are subject to safer recruitment process, including an enhanced DBS check.  We have a range of policies in place which promote safeguarding and safer working practice across our Schools.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all sections of the community regardless of age, gender, race, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, social background, religion or belief.  We want to recruit the right people for the Trust, from the widest possible backgrounds, to make the most of each individual’s different knowledge and experience.

Your privacy is important to us.  By submitting your personal data or information to us, you agree this will be handled in accordance with the Trust’s “Privacy Notice Recruitment” which can be found on our website.