Head of Modern Foreign Languages (French and Spanish)
New College Leicester, Leicester, LE3 6DNThis job expired on 15 April 2024 – see similar jobs
Job start date
22 August 2024
Closing date
15 April 2024 at 9am
Date listed
21 March 2024
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
- Part time: 32.5 hours per week
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- MPS/UPS
Additional allowances
TLR2c
What skills and experience we're looking for
- Appropriate Degree
- Qualified Teacher Status
- Experience of teaching MFL at KS3 and KS4
- Understanding of current curriculum issues with particular reference to the teaching of the subject
- Enthusiasm for the subject
- Evidence of clear ideas about the delivery of the curriculum to all abilities
- Ability to use appropriate ICT applications to monitor teaching and learning
- Evidence of being an effective member of a team
- Successful teaching experience at secondary level up to examination level with excellent outcomes for students
- Successful implementation of strategies for raising student achievement
- Familiar with current OFSTED criteria
- Effective Self Review procedures and documentation
- Able and willing to support, develop and implement whole college policies
- Has recent, relevant and successful experience of teaching students of all abilities and aptitudes
- Know recent statutory requirements regarding community cohesion, equality and diversity and safeguarding Willingness to deliver the college’s tutorial programme
- Evidence of being an effective member of a team
- Successful teaching experience at secondary level up to examination level with excellent outcomes for students
- Successful implementation of strategies for raising student achievement
- Familiar with current OFSTED criteria
- Effective Self Review procedures and documentation
- Able and willing to support, develop and implement whole college policies
- Has recent, relevant and successful experience of teaching students of all abilities and aptitudes
- Know recent statutory requirements regarding community cohesion, equality and diversity and safeguarding
- Ability to work hard under pressure
- Excellent communication and organisational skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work collaboratively
- Ability to self-evaluate learning needs and actively seek learning opportunities
- Work constructively as part of a team, understanding classroom roles and responsibilities and your own position within these
What the school offers its staff
- There is a belief amongst our parents, Ofsted and the community that New College Leicester is a good and continuously improving college. This has been, and will continue to be achieved by developing a strong sense of purpose and working very hard with our Primary partners and the local community. We are also dedicated to the concept of adding value and the development of active citizens, both of which underpin our aims and values.
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The New College Leicester’s philosophy is firmly based on a rounded education for all our students. Our core purpose is to break the cycle of disadvantage for our students. Extra-curricular provision, especially in PE, Sport and the Expressive Arts is as important as academic achievement. We are determined to continue to improve our results but want our students to fully appreciate the Arts and culture as well as Sport. The ‘Sportsmark’ and ‘Artsmark Gold Award’ are testament to our commitment to sport and the arts. We have the ambition to be an Artsmark Platinum school as soon as possible.
The well-being of any child is the most important factor in college life. We actively engage in providing all the support necessary to make sure that our young people have a safe and friendly college environment in which they can achieve their potential. In 2022, we retained our Flagship School status for the Inclusion Quality Mark and were rewarded with the SEND Inclusion Award.
The college is wholly committed to Pastoral Care & Guidance, which is its “beating heart”. All members of staff are expected to play a full and active guidance role. The college is divided into year groups, led by a Head of Year. The pastoral system is supported by an Education Welfare Officer.
Commitment to safeguarding
New College Leicester is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
We particularly welcome applications from under-represented groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation or religion.
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About New College Leicester
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1012 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- New College Leicester website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- ldawson@newcollege.leicester.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01162318500
At New College we.......try hard, work together, we dream big, strive, overcome, achieve, we try new things, enjoy, we create, aspire, we help each other, take risks, believe, we are ready to learn. At New College we......will be the best that we can be.
New College Leicester is a thriving, vibrant, learning community where our aim is to bring the best out of everyone by ensuring Outstanding Progress for All. It is a college with the ambition and plans to be even better. We are a college of almost 900 students, aged 11-18 years, situated on the west of Leicester city. Transport links to the college are good with both the M69 and M1 within 10 minutes’ drive.
New College Leicester is a genuinely comprehensive school, although the intake profile is changing – the prior attainment of students coming into the college is rising. However, by any indicator, New College Leicester is a college in challenging circumstances (DfE definition). Examination and test results, attendance figures, and levels of social deprivation and special educational need confirm this. Over 60% of our students are eligible for free school meals. A large percentage of our children are from wards which constitute the 10% most deprived wards in the country.
However, there is a belief amongst our parents and the community that New College Leicester is a continuously improving college. We continue to close the gap on all national achievement outcomes.
This has been, and will continue to be, achieved by developing a strong sense of purpose and working very hard with our Primary partners and the local community. We are also dedicated to the concept of adding value and the development of active citizens, both of which underpin our aims and values. Our values are described as the 4 R’s – Respect; Responsibility; Resilience and Resourcefulness – each one of these permeates our work daily.
Our fundamental belief is that every student at the College has ability: it is our mission and duty to nurture, develop and bring these talents to fruition.
There is a genuine ‘buzz’ around the college and we have a growing reputation locally.
Students at New College Leicester deserve the very best teachers that the profession can offer. If you join us, your sense of achievement and well-being will not be equalled. It is what most of us came into teaching for - to make a difference.
If you have any doubts about applying to the college then I recommend that you come and see for yourself before you make any snap judgement – we guarantee that you will be amazed – everyone who visits is!
Arranging a visit to New College Leicester
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email ldawson@newcollege.leicester.sch.uk.
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