Mandarin Chinese Language Assistant

Beths Grammar School, Bexley, Kent, DA5 1NE

21 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  September 2026

• Closing date

  12 June 2026 at 9am

• Date listed

  22 May 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £120.00 - £150.00 Daily £120-£150/day dependant on experience

Mandarin Chinese Language Assistant job summary

Beths Grammar School is a large multi-cultural school on the borders between London and Kent serving a wide range of vibrant and exciting communities. We specialise in boys' education in the main school and have a large, co-educational 6th form.

We are looking to appoint an outstanding Chinese Language Assistant to join our successful Modern Foreign Languages department for September 2026 for 2 days a week until February 2027, with the possibility of an extension of the contract depending on the needs of the school. The department has a proven track record of embracing innovative approaches to teaching and learning, offers Chinese Mandarin, French, German and Spanish to A Level. We also offer Italian and Latin to KS3.

Beths Grammar School is a Confucius Classroom School and one of the highest performing MEP (Mandarin Excellence Programme) in the country. Chinese is popular in the curriculum and we currently deliver Edexcel A-level Chinese, AQA GCSE Chinese as well as HSK examinations.

If you are a fluent Mandarin speaker with excellent communication skills in both English and Mandarin and can assist to A Level standard, this position offers an exciting opportunity to play a key role in developing the MEP and improving students' Mandarin listening and speaking skills at one of the UK’s leading schools.

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 Beths Grammar School

• School type: Academies, None, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 1664 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Beths Grammar School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/beths-grammar-school

Set in acres of pleasant grounds, Beths Grammar School is located within easy commuting distance of both central London and Kent, offering the advantages of a diverse and forward-thinking community within a haven of green space. The mainline railway station is less than ten minutes’ walk away; while for road users, there is a junction on the A2 close by (two of the three school fields run alongside the A2). Many staff choose to live close to the school, or in neighbouring boroughs, and the borough of Bexley has a wealth of high performing schools
and good quality housing stock at competitive prices.

Beths is an academic institution that fosters an ethos in which working hard and wanting to achieve are the norm:
where it’s cool to be clever and successful. This is as true for the staff as for the students. We are ambitious for the young people in our care and seek to help them secure the very best outcomes of which they are capable.
As a selective school, the staff have the privilege of educating and working with intellectually able young people;
and the students have the privilege of being in an environment in which progress in learning can be rapid, and
subjects explored in real depth.

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