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Leader of MFL

Wade Deacon High School, Widnes, Cheshire, WA8 7TD

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• Job start date

  1 September 2024

• Closing date

  1 May 2024 at 9am

• Date listed

  19 April 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £54,816 - £58,959

Leader of MFL job summary

We seek to appoint a committed, dynamic and forward-thinking Leader of Modern Foreign Languages who can support Wade Deacon High School in continuing to provide an exceptional quality of education for all students, and contribute to an already thriving learning community. You will lead an exceptionally hardworking, compassionate and collegiate team of very experienced staff in an extremely successful department. You will oversee the ongoing evolution of our highly developed flagship curriculum, ensuring that it continues to offer challenge, breadth and extensive opportunities to foster a love of Modern Foreign Languages.

The successful candidate will be an outstanding teacher with a proven track record of high-quality leadership and the ability to secure excellent outcomes. We pride ourselves on our commitment to ensuring student progress and high-quality teaching and learning provision for all. The successful applicant will share these values and play an active part in delivering on this commitment. Applications are invited from motivated and inspirational leaders who are eager to develop their leadership and contribute towards moving our school forward.

We can offer the successful candidates an opportunity to work with highly trained and supportive staff, as well as a whole school commitment to professional development, since we believe that staff development is a fundamental aspect in raising standards further for our students. Our school community is also a highly rewarding place to work. A comprehensive programme of CPD and a commitment to wellbeing supports colleagues at all career stages; through the School and the Trust, we provide excellent career opportunities for our staff. Colleagues seeking a varied, challenging and rewarding career can find this in the Wade Deacon family.

Wade Deacon High School is friendly, dynamic and innovative. Our latest OFSTED report from November 2022 described us as “an Outstanding School" in all areas, praising the school for providing pupils with a ‘first-rate education’ and an ‘aspirational curriculum’, describing pupils as ‘extremely happy’ and their behaviour as ‘exemplary’.

We pride ourselves on the quality and diversity of our curriculum, including our personal development and extracurricular provision which not only enable our students to enjoy their learning but also allows them to be able to meet the many challenges that they will face in the future, understanding the wider world and their place within it.

Above all else, we are a school that believes that every student, regardless of their context or starting point, can and should achieve their full potential. If you believe that you have the motivation, belief and leadership quality to contribute to our future success, we would welcome an application from you. 

The Wade Deacon Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, and is subject to an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory medical clearance. 

Commitment to safeguarding

Wade Deacon High School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts are subject to pre-employment checks including an enhanced DBS disclosure.

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About Wade Deacon High School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1594 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Wade Deacon High School website (opens in new tab)
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/wade-deacon-high-school-widnes (opens in new tab)

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