Head of Modern Foreign Languages

Moorside High School, Manchester, M27 0AP

13 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  January 2026

• Closing date

  1 October 2025 at 10am

• Date listed

  18 September 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Subject: Languages
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: MPS/UPS – Plus TLR 2c £8,609.73 per annum
• Additional allowances:

  MPS/UPS – Plus TLR 2c £8,609.73 per annum

Head of Modern Foreign Languages job summary

Head of MFL

📍 Location: Moorside High School
💰 Salary: MPS/UPS - Plus TLR 2c £8,609.73 per annum
⏳ Contract and Working Pattern: Full Time Permanent
📅 Start Date: January 2026

Join Our Journey

At Moorside High School, we are proud to get the balance right between academic progress, pastoral support, and wider curriculum enrichment. As a member of Consilium Academies, we share a common mission: Enriching Lives, Inspiring Ambitions.

This is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious and motivated leader to take the next step in their career by leading our Modern Foreign Languages Department.

The Role

We are seeking to appoint a dynamic and inspirational Head of Modern Foreign Languages who will:

• Lead and manage the MFL curriculum, ensuring excellent outcomes for all learners.
• Inspire, motivate, and develop staff within the department.
• Drive high standards in teaching, learning, and assessment.
• Contribute to the wider leadership of the school and play a key role in raising aspirations and achievement.
• Ensure our students have access to a broad and ambitious languages curriculum that supports their next steps in education, training, or employment.

About You

The ideal candidate will:

• Be an excellent classroom practitioner with a proven track record of raising attainment.
• Have strong subject knowledge, particularly in Spanish (up to GCSE).
• Demonstrate the vision, drive, and commitment to lead a successful department.
• Be a collaborative leader who can inspire colleagues and students alike.
• Share our values of Consideration, Aspiration, Resilience, and Equality (CARE).

Why Moorside?

• A popular, oversubscribed 11-16 school with over 1,200 students.
• Rated Good by Ofsted (March 2022).
• A vibrant, inclusive ethos where every student is supported to achieve their full potential.
• Excellent facilities on our state-of-the-art campus.
• A strong commitment to professional development and career progression through the Consilium Centre for Professional Learning.

Why Consilium Academies?

As part of our Trust, you will benefit from:

• Automatic pay progression and enhanced contractual sick pay.
• Access to the Teachers’ Pension Scheme.
• An excellent CPD offer tailored to your needs.
• Staff benefits package, including Employee Assistance Programme, Vivup discounts, and salary sacrifice schemes.

Safeguarding

Consilium Academies is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All successful applicants will be subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check.

Applications and Information

For further information about the role please see attached recruitment pack including, job description and person specification.

If you have any questions about the role or would like to arrange a visit to Moorside High School, please contact Nicola.hill@consilium-at.com

Closing date for applications is 1st October 2025

Interviews will take place on 6th October 2025

Please ensure that within your application you provide the names, addresses, and contact details for two referees, one of whom should be your current or most recent employer.

We look forward to welcoming a new team member who shares our commitment to excellence in education!

Consilium Academies is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Appointments are made subject to an Enhanced DBS Check, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all applicants.

The Trust is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

Under Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016, the Public Sector fluency duty requires state funded schools to ensure candidates for their customer facing roles have the necessary standard of spoken English.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

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.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Moorside High School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1140 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Moorside High School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/moorside-high-school-manchester

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