About The Royal School
The Royal School is a co-educational day and boarding independent school from nursery to sixth form. The Prep School is located at Hindhead and the Senior School on a beautiful 25 acre site in Haslemere, in an area renowned for its natural beauty. The school is academically ambitious for all its pupils. As a proudly mixed ability school, the focus is on the whole child, seeking to develop their talents and sparking their intellectual curiosity. Each pupil is nurtured and challenged to be the very best they can be. Our commitment is to ensure pupils are future-ready to thrive in this rapidly changing world.
The school joined United Learning in November 2019 and there are plenty of opportunities to grow, share ideas, best practice and knowledge across our supportive network of 7,000 colleagues across the country. The Royal is a friendly place to work and staff benefit from shared curriculum resources, in-house training opportunities and bespoke personal development and career pathways.
Pippa Smithson joined as Head in 2020 and our Senior Leadership Team is driven by a strong vision. Our philosophy of continuous improvement has led to the school enjoying a rapid period of growth, investment and development, including a new Creativity & Innovation Hub and digital roll-out of Surface Go devices to all Year 7-12 pupils. OneNote is used throughout the school and prep is set on Teams.
About the Role
We are seeking to appoint a committed and enthusiastic teacher of English to our successful and growing department. The English Department is a well-resourced and supportive team and we are going through an exciting period of development, which would suit either an experienced teacher, or someone at the start of their career. There is excellent scope to develop skills and have an input to a growing department, especially with extra-curricular activities such as debating and inter-school competitions such as the Philosothon. The English department offers Edexcel iGCSE for Literature and Language GCSE and AQA English Literature A level and has a history of excellent results, particularly in relation to value-added attainment. There is scope for the right candidate to pursue their passion for English within the department and in the wider extra-curricular life of the school. The department is very much at the centre of the school, which is a vibrant and evolving community.
This is a part time teaching position (0.5 FTE) but for the right candidate other duties such as boarding could be considered to become a full time role.
We may hold interviews as and when applications are received, and this job may be withdrawn without notice. Applications will only be considered if submitted online and before the closing deadline. With this in mind, we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
The Royal School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all who work at the School to share this commitment. Successful applicants will be subject to child protection screening appropriate to the post including an enhanced disclosure through the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and checks with previous employers.
Please apply through our ‘Work With Us‘ recruitment page where the application and more information can be found. https://www.royal-school.org/about-us/work-with-us
United Learning
The Royal School is part of United Learning, a large, and growing, group of schools aiming to offer a life changing education to children and young people across England.
Our schools work as a team and achieve more by sharing than any single school could. Our subject specialists, our Group-wide intranet, our own curriculum and our online learning portal all help us share knowledge and resource, helping to simplify work processes and manage workloads for an improved work-life balance.
As a Group, we can reward our staff better: with good career opportunities, benefits, and ultimately, the satisfaction of helping children to succeed. We invest in our staff wellbeing. We are working hard to become a more diverse organisation – which is key to our commitment to bringing out the best in everyone. We welcome applications from everyone committed to this ethos and would particularly welcome applications from black and minority ethnic candidates, who are currently under-represented in the Group as a whole. We always appoint on merit. We are open to discussing flexible working options.
Invite to Interview Information
We do endeavour to respond to all applications; however, applicants who have not heard from the School must assume that, on this occasion, their application has been unsuccessful.
Short-listed candidates will need to bring proof of their educational and professional qualifications that are necessary or relevant to the post. All candidates invited to interview must also bring each of the following original documents;
- Passport
- Current driving licence if you have one
- Full birth certificate
- Utility bill or bank statement issues within the last three months showing the candidates
name and address
- Where appropriate any documentation evidencing a change of name
- Evidence of the right to work in the UK
Please be reminded that references will be requested prior to interview.
