Head of Department for Modern Foreign Languages

Moseley School and Sixth Form, Birmingham, West Midlands, B13 9UU

2 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  Easter 2025 or September 2025

• Closing date

  7 February 2025 at 8am

• Date listed

  30 January 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Subject: Modern Languages
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: MPS/UPR + TLR 2b

Head of Department for Modern Foreign Languages job summary

We are looking for a dynamic, passionate teacher to lead our Languages department at Moseley School and Sixth Form.

Our languages department consists of a team of 5 highly skilled and dedicated teachers who all share a passion for languages! At Moseley, we truly value foreign languages and diversity and achieve very good outcomes for those who choose to study Language subjects at KS4 and KS5. As part of the Humanities faculty, the languages team offers a global perspective and widens horizons.

If you are successful in securing this exciting opportunity, you will benefit from:

• A team of 5 highly skilled MFL specialists, who are dedicated teachers, and all share a passion for languages!
• Modern Foreign Languages are highly valued at the school. We teach French, Spanish and Urdu across Key Stages 3, 4 and 5. On entry to the school in Year 7 our pupils choose their preferred language to study throughout Key Stage 3.
• All three languages are optional subjects at Key Stage 4 and Moseley School also offers A-levels in French, Spanish and Urdu.
• Many of our young people have the ability to speak a home language and they are highly encouraged to take the GCSE in that language if it is available. In recent years we have entered students for GCSE and GCE A levels in German, Polish, Portuguese, Bengali, Greek, Chinese, Italian, and our students of Arabic always perform amazingly well.
• Our MFL classrooms are well-equipped, positive, and welcoming environments in which we enable students to get the most out of their learning.
• A school ethos that places great value on cultural awareness and appreciation. This is reflected in our MFL lesson content, which promotes knowledge of customs, festivals and traditions in French, Spanish and Urdu speaking countries.
• We are committed to offering a range of experiences that help bring our languages to life and an intention to widen the offer further, with trips abroad.

Contract Start Date: Easter 2024 or September 2024

Reporting to: The Head of Languages reports to the Assistant Headteacher – Head of Humanities.

Core Purpose:

• To ensure that students at Moseley make maximum progress and achieve their full potential in MFL, while developing a real passion for language learning.
• Professional leadership and management of the MFL department, to secure high-quality teaching and effective use of resources and further raising standards and outcomes for all students.
• Ensure that all students make positive progress against prior attainment, by ensuring teaching is consistently high quality, progress is monitored, and appropriate measures are taken to address any underachievement.

Job Purpose:

To effectively lead and manage teachers of MFL so that the department:

• Delivers an engaging, aspirational, and well-planned curriculum, to achieve high standards of student attainment and progress.
• Teachers are supported and developed to teach high quality lessons that engage students.
• Provides students with high quality feedback.
• Shares excellent practice on specifications, examination requirements and resources /teaching strategies.
• To keep up to date with national developments in the subjects, teaching practice and methodology
• Supports all students to achieve their full potential and really uphold our Moseley RAISE values.
• Safeguarding: To be familiar with school policies, in particular safeguarding procedures, and promote the welfare of children.

Key responsibilities:

• To lead the department in a way that achieves the job purpose and fulfils statutory requirements.
• To champion the study of MFL and lead the effective promotion of the subject.
• To revise and update the KS3, KS4 and KS5 schemes of work so that they meet the MFL programme of study.
• To conduct data analysis to produce reports on assessment and examination performance for the department, including interventions.
• To lead department CPD sessions.
• To monitor student progress and lead the department teachers, to intervene where students are underachieving.
• To quality assure the MFL provision.
• To liaise with wider school teams to ensure all students receive the best possible experience of MFL.
• Lead on raising attainment and aspirational initiatives including extra-curricular activities, which enhance the curriculum and experience of MFL students.
• Play a full part in the life of the school community, to support its distinctive mission and ethos and to encourage staff and students to follow this example.
• Participate in the appraisal process, identifying personal professional development priorities which will impact on students’ learning.
• To line manage the teachers of the department, ensuring teaching and professional standards are met and maintained, including providing professional and personal advice and support as needed.
• To act as form tutor and contribute to PSHE according to school policy.

We welcome visitors to the school. Please contact recruitment@moseley.bham.sch.uk if you have any questions about the role or School and would like to arrange a visit.

Interviews will take place on Wednesday 12th February 2025.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

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Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Moseley School and Sixth Form

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1454 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Moseley School and Sixth Form website (opens in new tab)
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The staff at Moseley School and Sixth Form are a passionate team of professionals. Our purpose is to inspire excellence in character and scholarship. The students and their families have bought into this vision. Together we form a friendly and dedicated community.

Moseley School and Sixth Form is a large comprehensive secondary school with a thriving sixth form. Moseley School first opened its doors in 1923. We value our long history whilst being excited about our future. There are 1300 students, 150 teaching and support staff, excellent facilities housed in a grade two listed building, a modern building which opened in 2012 and a recently completed sports complex and extensive grounds. Staff enjoy subsidised healthcare options and access to our on-site gym.

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