Modern Foreign Languages Assistant (Spanish)

Hockerill Anglo-European College, Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, CM23 5HX

8 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  25 June 2026 at 9am

• Date listed

  17 June 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: H8 - £18.23 p/h, 24 hours per week term time plus inset days
• Additional allowances:

  H8 - £18.23 p/h, 24 hours per week term time plus inset days

Modern Foreign Languages Assistant (Spanish) job summary

We are a thriving, diverse, and forward-thinking school that fosters a passion for learning and global citizenship. Committed to developing inquiring, knowledgeable, and open-minded students, we offer a broad curriculum that combines the IB Diploma and Middle Years Programmes with GCSEs. From September 2027, the College will also broaden its post-16 provision to offer A Levels alongside the IB Diploma, ensuring that all students can access the pathway best suited to their strengths, aspirations and future plans.

Our Modern Foreign Languages department plays a central role in promoting international mindedness and cultural understanding across the school. Languages are highly valued within our curriculum, and we are committed to ensuring students develop confidence, fluency, and enthusiasm in their language learning. Through engaging teaching, cultural enrichment opportunities, and a strong focus on communication, we aim to equip students with the linguistic skills needed to thrive in an increasingly interconnected world.

We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and committed Modern Foreign Languages Assistant to join our ambitious and supportive Languages team. This is an exciting opportunity for a candidate with strong Spanish language skills and a passion for education to make a meaningful contribution to students’ language development.

The successful candidate will support classroom teachers in developing students’ speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills through planned activities and targeted intervention. They will work with individual students, small groups, and whole classes to improve students’ confidence and fluency in spoken Spanish, supporting high-quality teaching and learning across the department.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone who is passionate about languages, enjoys working with young people, and is keen to contribute to a collaborative and forward-thinking educational environment.

We reserve the right to interview and appoint before the closing date.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff to share this commitment. All post-holders are subject to a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) including barred list checks.

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 Hockerill Anglo-European College

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 926 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Hockerill Anglo-European College website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/hockerill-anglo-european-college-bishop-s-stortford

We passionately believe that every student deserves the opportunity to be the best they can be and that our school gives them that opportunity. We are a state co-educational day and boarding school for students aged 11 to 18 and offer our students a dynamic, vibrant and exciting learning environment where development of the whole student is our priority. The College offers a rigorous and broad curriculum, and is proud to be one of the largest state schools offering the prestigious International Baccalaureate Middle Years and Diploma programmes. With a twin focus on the two specialisms of Languages and Music, Hockerill offers a truly distinct setting for a world-class education. Located in beautiful grounds on the edge of Bishop’s Stortford the school is in close proximity to London and the South East of England and accepts applications for boarding and day places from students with a current UK passport or the right to residency in the UK.

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