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  • Start date details

    September 2025

  • Closing date

    18 May 2025 at 11:59pm

  • Date listed

    15 May 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

£31,650.00 - £49,084.00 Annually (Actual) MPS to UPS plus additional TLR2C

Head of Department - Modern Foreign Languages job summary

Please note that applications will be reviewed as received and should a suitable candidate be identified, we may close the vacancy early. Therefore, early application is encouraged.

The Head of Department - Modern Foreign Languages. The role is for full time 32.50 hrs per week, all year round contract on permanent basis.

The post is to start in September 2025

Salary: MPS to UPS plus TLR 2C dependant on experience

Vacancy Details

Devizes School is a well-established Secondary School in the heart of Wiltshire. We value diversity in our school community and hold a variety of lessons and events to celebrate our differences.

We couldn’t do what we do without our fantastic staff team, and we have an exciting opportunity for an outstanding teacher with the experience to step up into a Head of Department - Modern Foreign Languages position in our school to lead the Modern Foreign Languages department.

If you are a qualified and enthusiastic teacher with looking for the next step in your teaching career, within a challenging but highly rewarding role, then we want to hear from you.

Come and join us in a key role on this exciting journey to help every student in our school reach their potential.

All About You

Do you have what it takes to join us? The Head of Department - Modern Foreign Languages , we would like to join us will be: 

A dynamic, inspirational and enthusiastic classroom practitioner with high expectations for students. 

Passionate about your subject, able to inspire and motivate students and staff. 

A role model for our students and staff. 

Why Work for us?

We think you will love working with us and here are some of the reasons why:

We are a welcoming and supportive school with strong values and a caring ethos.

Our staff are a hardworking team dedicated to helping children succeed.

Our children are engaged and eager to learn.

We have a supportive leadership team and wider school community.

As part of The White Horse Federation multi-academy trust, we benefit from their support, encouragement, shared resources and outstanding CPD opportunities.

Why not come and see for yourself? We would love to welcome you to our school and show you around so that you can better understand our school environment. Please get in touch with the school office to arrange.

The White Horse Federation is a large Multi-Academy Trust in South West and South East England, committed to providing the very best education for our students. We believe in empowering our staff to be the very best they can be, and that is why you will find a wide range of professional development opportunities available to you when you join us.

Benefits:

The Advantages of joining our Federation

In addition, our employees reap the rewards of a competitive benefits package, including:

  • Employee Assistance programme
  • Cycle to Work Scheme
  • Discounts on Gym Membership
  • Menopause support network

Discounts, save money on holidays, clothing and much more:

  • Discounts for Teachers - All staff within the Trust can take advantage of the discounts
  • Blue Light Discount
  • Eye Care Vouchers
  • Tusker Car Purchase Scheme

Development

  • Access to up-to-date training on safeguarding and child protection to ensure staff are fully supported in their roles, including ongoing updates on statutory safeguarding guidance and legislation.
  • CPD Programme
  • Supportive leadership team to help you reach your full potential

Pension / Leave and Service

  • Excellent Pension Scheme*
  • Employer contributions above national standards
  • Enhanced family-friendly policies, including maternity, paternity, adoption, and shared parental leave
  • An additional White Horse concessionary day’s leave per year

Ready to Apply?

We hope we have done enough to give you a flavour of what it is like to work here. If you would like come and join us, then please apply today – we are looking forward to hearing from you.

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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About Devizes School

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 18
Education phase
Secondary
School size
1137 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 18
Ofsted report
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Devizes School is a Good School (Ofsted 2019) and learning is at the heart of all that we do. We are a very forward thinking school who are always striving to do better. It is a very happy place to learn and work and the positive relationships between students and staff are based on mutual respect and are at the heart of high standards of teaching and learning. This results in all students making excellent progress

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