Teacher of MFL - French with Spanish

Suitable for NQTs: Yes

Closing date: Wednesday 3 March 2025 at 12:00pm

Interview date: Friday 7 March 2025

We are seeking to appoint either an experienced teacher or an early career teacher (ECT) of French and Spanish, with Qualified Teacher Status (QTS).

The candidate will believe that all children can achieve success in languages when challenged in a supportive, high expectation learning environment.

The successful candidate will:

• Have the ability to teach French to A level and Spanish to at least KS3
• Demonstrate a high degree of subject competency and personal organisation with a continuing personal interest in, and commitment to modern foreign languages
• Have a knowledge of or willingness to engage with Extensive Processing Instruction and the work of Gianfranco Conti & Steve Smith as a key strategy in teaching languages
• Have the flair and ambition to motivate students of all abilities and develop the profile of modern foreign languages within the school and wider community
• Show a willingness to embrace new technology and techniques for promoting modern foreign languages, engaging students and encouraging an international perspective
• Relish working as part of a large, supportive team committed to excellence
• Have the resolve and tenacity to make a real difference to the performance of students

If you would like to join a forward-thinking, research-driven school and have the skills and tenacity to really make a difference for young people, we would welcome your application.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to respect this commitment. A consideration of the person’s suitability to work alongside children is part of the selection process.

If invited for an interview, you will be:

• asked to complete a self-declaration form answering questions in relation to any criminal record or other information that would make them unsuitable to work with children.
• subject to an online search. This is to help identify any incidents or issues that have happened, and are publicly available online, which we may wish to explore at interview.

If successful, you will be subject to:

• an enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service.
• pre-employment checks which will include References, Health, Right to Work in UK, DBS and a Declaration that neither they nor anyone who lives in the same household is a disqualified person under the Childcare (Disqualification) Regulations 2009.

Current or previous employers will be contacted, and information requested will include:

• disciplinary offences relating to children, including any for which the penalty is ‘time expired’.
• whether the applicant has been the subject of any child protection concerns.