16 days remaining to apply

  • Job start date

    1 January 2027

  • Closing date

    4 November 2026 at 11:59pm

  • Date listed

    19 October 2026

Job details

Job role

  • Teacher or lecturer

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Subject

Spanish

Working pattern

Full time

Contract type

Permanent

Full time equivalent salary

£34,068.00 - £52,834.00 Annually (Actual) TLR 2B

Head of Spanish job summary

Southend High School for Girls

Head of Spanish

Required for January 2027

Closing date: Wednesday 4th November

Interviews to be held on: w/c Monday 9th November

An exciting opportunity to lead, inspire and make a difference

Southend High School for Girls is seeking an inspirational and ambitious Head of Spanish to lead this popular and successful subject within our thriving Modern Foreign Languages Faculty.

Judged Outstanding in every category by Ofsted (July 2024), we are a school where “pupils flourish and excel” through “stimulating and engaging lessons that light a fire for learning.”

Languages are central to our ambitious curriculum. All students study two languages at Key Stage 3, with a modern foreign language compulsory at GCSE. Spanish enjoys excellent outcomes at GCSE and A Level, and we are seeking a talented subject leader with the vision, creativity and determination to build upon this success.

The successful candidate will:

  • Be an exceptional classroom practitioner, inspiring highly motivated students from Key Stage 3 to A Level.

  • Provide ambitious leadership of Spanish, securing excellent teaching, learning and achievement.

  • Develop an engaging curriculum and enriching opportunities that foster a lifelong love of languages and cultures.

  • Work collaboratively with colleagues across the Faculty, sharing expertise and driving continued improvement.

  • The ability to teach Spanish confidently to the highest standards at A Level, including A*, is essential

  • French at Key Stage 3 would be an advantage.

Why join us?

We offer exceptional students, a highly supportive and collaborative staff community, excellent professional development and a culture of high aspiration.

Ofsted praised the “exemplary support and encouragement” students receive and recognised that “the school is relentless in its desire to keep improving.”

Our ambition is to move from Outstanding to Exceptional, and we are looking for a Head of Spanish who shares that vision. One of the most powerful endorsements of our school came from a student who told Ofsted inspectors: ‘The school will literally help you do anything you want to do.’ This spirit of ambition, opportunity and encouragement extends to our staff as well as our students

If you are ready to inspire students, lead with ambition and help shape the future of Spanish at SHSG, we would love to hear from you.

www.shsg.org | recruitment@shsg.org

SHSG is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. Appointment is subject to appropriate safeguarding checks, including an enhanced DBS check.

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.
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Commitment to safeguarding

All staff at Southend High School for Girls have a responsibility for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. The successful applicant will be required to complete an enhanced DBS check.

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About Southend High School for Girls

Organisation type
Academy, ages 11 to 18
Education phase
Secondary school
Size
1312 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 18
Ofsted report
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Website
Southend High School for Girls website
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Southend High School for Girls is a grammar school with academy status with approximately 1260 students including a sixth form of 360 students.
The school is situated on Southchurch Boulevard in the east of the City of Southend-on-Sea, Essex.
Southend High School for Girls is built on strong traditions and values and has a long and illustrious history of over 100 years of educating the brightest minds in the country. At the core of our philosophy, we believe that students should be safe, happy and successful.
Our team of staff are all experts in their fields and are passionate about the education and well-being of our young people. We are unashamedly ambitious for them and aspire to create a pervasive ethos of high expectations and promote discipline and good behaviour in school life.
Our moral purpose is to ensure that our students experience a rigorous and stretching academic education on the one hand, and outstanding wider personal development on the other. We believe that our students should develop high self-efficacy and self-belief and be confident and fearless – demonstrating resilience in the face of challenges.
Being a member of a high-performing grammar school demands hard work, fortitude and a can-do attitude; participation, energy and commitment are our non-negotiables – but the results are well worth it.
If Southend High School for Girls sounds like the sort of place where you would like to work – and where you feel you could make a major contribution to its continuing success – then we would love to hear from you.

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