Head of Modern Foreign Languages
Crispin School Academy, Street, Somerset, BA16 0ADThis job expired on 14 May 2025
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
14 May 2025 at 9am
Date listed
9 May 2025
Job details
Job role
- Head of department or curriculum
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Subject
- Languages
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- MPS / UPS
Additional allowances
TLR 2b (£5642) (Pay award pending 01 September 2025)
What skills and experience we're looking for
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified Teacher Status
- Degree in a Modern Language(s) or a related subject
Experience
Essential
- Successful teaching of the full ability range
- Evidence of appropriate, up-to-date CPD
- High level of progress and attainment from students taught
Desirable
- Leadership experience outside of the role of classroom teacher
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- To be fully committed to change and able to adopt and promote a forward thinking and innovative approach to improvement
- Excellent subject knowledge
- Ability to teach to GCSE Grade 9
- Ability to develop an excellent Modern Foreign Languages curriculum
- Ability to inspire and liaise with colleagues across the school to promote the Department
- Able to demonstrate excellent classroom management
- Clear commitment to excellent assessment and feedback
- Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
- Ability to relate extremely well to students, colleagues and parents / carers and demonstrate excellent oral and written communication skills
- Ability to use ICT to support learning
- Ability to engage, inspire and foster a love of Languages
- Strong vision for excellence in Modern Foreign Languages
- Successful involvement in enrichment activities in Languages
Desirable
- Ability to contribute to the teaching of both French and Spanish
Crispin’s Values and Ethos
Essential
- Value the contribution that each individual brings to the school community
- Respect and value diversity and promote equality
- Promote and model mutual respect
- Commitment to the importance of coaching and restorative justice
- Commitment to inclusive education
- Committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people
Person specification continued
Personal Qualities
Essential
- A passion for teaching Languages
- Adopts a collegiate and collaborative approach to leadership
- Willingness to constructively challenge the work of self and others to continually improve own and team performance
- Seeks to work collaboratively to resolve conflict
- Enthusiasm to support young people to develop intellectually and personally
- A strong commitment to ongoing professional development
- Resilience
- High degree of emotional intelligence
- Demonstrated leadership potential
- The ability to speak fluent English
- To be calm under pressure
- Highly organised
Desirable
- Potential for future promotion
- Possess a good sense of humour
What the school offers its staff
Supported by the Partnership Board, our staff work hard to deliver a rich and challenging curriculum to prepare young people for the next stages of their education and careers.
It is an exciting time to join the Wessex family as we grow, we can offer:
- Professional induction, training and continued professional development opportunities.
- Extended Leadership and other opportunities to develop your career.
- Excellent collaboration across Trust Schools, extensive learning communities and specialist subject leads, to enhance the learning of our young people and enhance your development.
- Staff benefits including reduced leisure centre membership and cycle to work scheme.
- A staff assistance programme with a specialist provider, CareFirst who provide a 24/7 free phone helpline, or face-to-face counselling for every employee in the Wessex family.
The Wessex Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding young people and promoting the welfare of children, and all staff appointed will undergo online checks and be required to undertake an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service Check. This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) and therefore the ability to speak fluent spoken English is an essential requirement of the role.
Commitment to safeguarding
Crispin is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. This post requires a criminal background check via the disclosure procedure. The successful applicant will therefore be subject to an Enhanced DBS.
This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) and therefore the ability to speak fluent spoken English is an essential requirement of the role.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Crispin School Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1052 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Crispin School Academy website
- Email address
- headspa@crispinschool.co.uk
- Phone number
- 01458442714
Crispin is a popular school with a strong reputation. We unashamedly have high expectations of all members of our community and we believe in challenging and supporting students to achieve their very best. Visitors regularly refer to our students and colleagues very positively. Relationships between staff and students are a strength of the school and colleagues are committed to providing every opportunity for students to have a broad experience and to be successful. We are committed to educating the whole child to ensure they enter adulthood as happy, supported young people with a love for learning. There is a sharp focus on learning and students receive excellent support. At all times we seek to be a compassionate institution.
It is important to state that Crispin has a very strong safeguarding culture which we would expect potential colleagues to wholeheartedly support.
We have a wide-ranging curriculum and have recently expanded the opportunities for students. We offer two Languages, a range of Arts and Technology options and have recently introduced new examination courses in areas such as Business, Engineering, Health and Social Care and Sport. Students have the opportunity to study Philosophy and our popular new course, Curriculum for Life. We have a high uptake of EBacc subjects but this sits alongside a commitment for students to retain a considerable degree of choice over which courses to follow. There are also a wide range of enrichment activities for students ranging from residential visits to school productions; sports to music; an enrichment week to work experience. We have recently expanded our ‘Employability’ programme considerably and we are also fortunate to have a successful Alumni Scheme.
We are proud of our vertical House system which is comprised of four Houses (Corvus, Falco, Sturnus and Tyto). This system allows for a wide range of opportunities for students from collaboration to competition, student leadership to support. All colleagues are members of one of the Houses.
We are fortunate to have a well-equipped site which includes extensive grounds, a range of curriculum area blocks and an astroturf pitch. We are also extremely fortunate to have opened a new purpose-built Innovation Hub in November 2020. This has been the most substantial development of the site since the opening of Crispin.
Crispin is due to become part of the Wessex Learning Trust on 1 March 2023. We have already been working closely with the Trust and this will offer a range of opportunities for the successful candidate.
Arranging a visit to Crispin School Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email headspa@crispinschool.co.uk.
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