Lead Teacher of MFL

Darton Academy, Barnsley, S75 5EF

23 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 January 2026

• Closing date

  12 October 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  19 September 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4
• Subjects: French, Languages, Spanish
• Working pattern: Full time: Full time 32.5 hours per week
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: Leadership

What skills and experience we're looking for

Essential

• A good honours degree in an appropriate foreign language (A/C)

• A teaching qualification together with qualified teacher status (QTS) (A/C)

• Knowledge of teaching, learning and assessment at KS3, KS4 & KS5 (A/I)

• A good understanding of curriculum developments in MFL (A/I)

• Understanding of use of data to assess and inform teaching and learning (I)

• An excellent classroom practitioner that can model best practise (I/R)

• Teach intervention groups at KS3 and KS4 (A/I)

• Good organisational and personal management skills (A/I)

• Effective planning and teaching (A/I/R)

• Effective behaviour/classroom management (A/I/R) Last updated: 24.05.2022

• An ability to demand high standards (A/I/R)

• Ability to lead and motivate others (A/I/R)

• Ability to work independently and be a team player (A/I/R)

• Ability to develop and support other staff to develop a variety of teaching strategies (A/I/R)

• Ability to enthuse and direct pupils and staff towards raising expectations and levels of achievement (A/I/R)

• Ability to meet deadlines (A/I) • Good ICT skills (A)

• Commitment to self and team development (A/I)

Desirable

• Experience of teaching A level MFL (A/I)

• Experience of leading, developing and enhancing the teaching practice of other staff (A/R)

• Relevant leadership experience (A/I) Key: C – Certificate; A – Application Form; I – Interview; R – Reference

What the school offers its staff

We offer an extensive range of opportunities, incentives and benefits with this post including:

• Financial: offering unlimited access to a huge range of discounts on holidays, days out, retailer and cashback deals inc. Curry’s, John Lewis, Tesco and B&Q to name but a few.
• Lifestyle and Wellbeing: discounted & flexible gym memberships, eye care vouchers, cycle 2 work/Technology scheme, free annual flu jab and 24/7 access to a market leading Employee Assistance Programme providing expert information specialist advisors trained by Citizens AdAssistant and access to professionally qualified counsellors accredited by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.
• Motoring: access to an employee vehicle leasing scheme*, discounted vehicle repairs and discounts on car/van hire.
• Pension: excellent employer/employee contributory pension scheme with the Teachers’ Pension Scheme (TPS)
• Personal and professional: we offer a range of training and development opportunities for you to grow and develop.

*Subject to ensuring NMW is maintained.

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

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About Darton Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1114 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Darton Academy website
• Email address: info@dartonacademy.org.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/darton-academy

Darton Academy is an exciting place to learn and as soon as you enter the building you can feel a buzz of enthusiasm. There is a sense of purpose, and the academy is calm and orderly, with state-of-the-art facilities. We are a close-knit community, and we pride ourselves on knowing our pupils well and doing our utmost to ensure everyone fulfils their true potential.

We aim to ensure that our pupils can learn in a safe and supportive environment, where everyone values academic achievement and has a positive attitude to learning. As a result of our journey of continuous improvement, our pupils achieved the “best ever GCSE results” in the summer of 2022, and we continue to go from strength to strength. Our progress 8 result is 0.4 and in February 2023 Ofsted graded us Good with an outstanding personal development offer.

We strongly encourage our pupils to take part in enrichment activities so they can discover all their strengths and talents, and run over forty clubs, as well as pupil support sessions and interventions. We also regularly organise whole school events and educational visits so that our pupils have a broad experience of learning beyond the classroom.

We believe in rewarding pupils for good behaviour, attendance and achievement and run a number of celebration events throughout the year, from “Super September” to our summer “DartFest”. We place learning at the heart of everything we do and use our core values of respect, responsibility, and resilience to build a positive ethos.

Ultimately, we understand that our pupils are most successful when they feel happy, valued, challenged, and supported to achieve their very best. We believe this also applies to our staff. We are passionate about giving people the chance to develop and progress their careers.

Arranging a visit to Darton Academy

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email info@dartonacademy.org.uk.

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