Assistant Faculty Leader Languages
Tonbridge Grammar School, Tonbridge, Kent, TN9 2JR24 days remaining to apply
Start date details
January 2026
Closing date
6 October 2025 at 9am
Date listed
12 September 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Subject
- Languages
Working pattern
- Full time: 32.5 hours per week Monday to Friday
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- MPS-UPS depending on experience
Additional allowances
TLR2a
What skills and experience we're looking for
The Assistant Faculty Leader of Languages will support the Faculty Leader Language Acquisition in the following areas:
Strategic Direction:
Promote Languages, highlighting its importance and value across the School.
Assess how well the curriculum is being delivered and the impact it has on student progress and achievement.
Use these insights to inform the Subject Development Plan and contribute to action plans.
Promote students’ spiritual, moral, social, cultural, physical and mental development alongside British values.
Liaise with external organisations and groups such as IB cluster networks.
The Curriculum:
Ensure curriculum provision and development embeds MYP and IBDP pedagogy and principles.
Collaborate with the MYP and DP Coordinators to ensure that the curriculum supports a 7-year inquiry-driven curriculum.
Collaborate with the MYP Coordinator to support the Interdisciplinary and Community Engagement experiences for students in Years 7-9.
Ensure unit plans and schemes of work are current, enhance learning, are sequenced to promote progress, develop the skills outlined in the learner profile and signpost opportunities for Community Engagement.
Ensure the planned curriculum is effectively and consistently implemented.
Establish an effective system of assessment that promotes student progress and ensures the curriculum has a positive impact on learning.
Work with the special educational needs co-ordinator (SENCO) to ensure the curriculum matches the needs of different students, such as disadvantaged students and those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND).
Promote Careers Education through the subject and ensure that teaching and learning illustrates how the subject might lead to career opportunities.
What the school offers its staff
- 5 Additional INSET days a year (10 in total)
- Free use of our Fitness suite
- Staff wellbeing package including winter flu jabs
- Ample parking
- Cycle to work scheme
- Active staff community and socials
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Tonbridge Grammar School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. Please be aware that schools are also required to undertake online recruitment checks on shortlisted candidates under changes to Keeping Children Safe in Education legislation. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check.
Applying for the job
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About Tonbridge Grammar School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1164 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Tonbridge Grammar School website
- Email address
- personnel@tgs.kent.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01732 365125
Tonbridge Grammar School; a high performing state grammar school in Kent
Educating girls aged 11 to 16 years and with a co-ed sixth form, TGS regularly features in listings of the top ranked schools in the South East and the UK. In our most recent Ofsted inspection in 2024, inspectors judged that Tonbridge Grammar School maintained the standards identified in their 2019 inspection; ‘outstanding for overall effectiveness’. We have a vibrant enrichment programme and wellbeing is at the heart of everything we do. There is a real sense of community with staff, students and parents/carers working together.
TGS is situated in Kent ‘the garden of England’, close to Royal Tunbridge Wells. This location is ideal for trips to London and you will also find beautiful countryside on your doorstep. Excellent transport links to both London and the coast.
Arranging a visit to Tonbridge Grammar School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email personnel@tgs.kent.sch.uk.
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