MFL Teacher
St Thomas More Catholic High School, North Shields, Tyne and Wear, NE29 8LFThis job expired on 31 March 2025 – see similar jobs
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
31 March 2025 at 9am
Date listed
17 March 2025
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Subjects
- French, German, Languages
Working pattern
- Full time: Full time Monday to Friday
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- TMPS/UPR (£31,650 - £49,084 per annum, depending on relevant teaching experience and in accordance with the Teachers' Pay and Conditions)
What skills and experience we're looking for
Governors seek to appoint a well-qualified, committed and enthusiastic German/French teacher to join our excellent Modern Foreign Languages department of seven specialists. The department is highly achieving and very popular in the Sixth Form. This post is suitable both for newly/recently qualified teachers and those with experience, and we welcome applications from teachers interested in both a full time or part time position. St Thomas More is a large, highly successful academy, with an excellent reputation both locally and nationally. It serves the whole of North Tyneside and has a strong, genuinely comprehensive intake. It is part of the Bishop Bewick Catholic Education Trust.
Job overview
The successful candidate will be a dedicated German/French teacher with the energy, enthusiasm and desire to inspire a love of languages. They will be responsible for planning and delivering languages lessons in line with department schemes of work, ensuring high standards of teaching and learning are maintained. They will work collaboratively with the MFL team and wider staff to sustain and raise the achievement of all students at St Thomas More.
Job requirements
Qualified Teacher Status or equivalent qualification
Relevant specialist qualifications and subject experience: Ability to teach German and/or French to at least GCSE Level
Understanding of curriculum requirements for languages and to plan and deliver high-quality lessons
Sound knowledge of delivery of both oral and written aspects of MFL to ensure consistent levels of speaking and writing are achieved
Ability to understand and implement assessment methods to support progress
Enthusiasm and commitment to the MFL team
What the school offers its staff
The school provides:
An extremely positive, stimulating environment
Enthusiastic students and excellent staff
Excellence in teaching, learning and achievement
A strong culture of learning, improvement and collaborative working
Leadership development and opportunities
Commitment to safeguarding
St Thomas More is committed to the safety and protection of its students. The successful applicant
will be required to undergo an Enhanced Disclosure check via the Disclosure and Barring Service
together with other relevant employment checks deemed appropriate. An online search will take place
on shortlisted candidates as part of the recruitment process and inline with Keeping Children Safe
in Education 2022 guidance.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About St Thomas More Catholic High School
- School type
- Academy, Roman Catholic, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1619 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- St Thomas More Catholic High School website
- Email address
- cpalgrave@stmacademy.org.uk
We are an 11 – 18 mixed, converter academy serving the Catholic community of the Tynemouth Priory Partnership (Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle). On December 1st 2020 we joined the Bishop Bewick Catholic Education Trust which comprises of all of the North of Tyne Catholic schools. We have a well-balanced, genuinely comprehensive intake, which is one of our great strengths. The ability profile on entry is above the national average and free school meals uptake is below the national average. We have an excellent reputation locally and nationally for the quality of our ethos, teaching and learning, high achievement, and sustained improvement over time.
Arranging a visit to St Thomas More Catholic High School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email cpalgrave@stmacademy.org.uk.
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