Modern Foreign Languages Teacher (Spanish & Italian)

Harrow High School, Harrow, HA1 2JG

14 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  September 2025

• Closing date

  20 March 2026 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  6 March 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Subject: Spanish
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: MPS/UPS
• Additional allowances:

  MPS/UPS

Modern Foreign Languages Teacher (Spanish & Italian) job summary

If you are successful, you will be joining a high achieving MFL department that offers compulsory Spanish and Italian in Key Stage 3 and a very successful GCSE course in both subjects at Key Stage 4. In fact, 77% of our learners achieved grades 9-4 in their Spanish GCSE in 2025, and 85% of them achieved grades 9-4 in their Italian GCSE. We hope to introduce one or both languages into the Sixth Form in the future.

Your primary role will be teaching Spanish and Italian. Italian will be taught mostly in Key Stage 3, although there may be opportunities for the successful candidate to teach some KS4 Italian.

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 Harrow High School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 1013 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Harrow High School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/harrow-high-school

Would you want to work in a school where ‘100% of staff would recommend working here to a friend’ and where all our Early Career Teachers told Ofsted ‘they never feel overwhelmed by the job’?

We offer a supportive environment in which professional and pedagogical development is at the heart of what we do and in which teacher workload is managed very effectively through sensible loadings, centralised planning and whole class feedback. At the same time we expect the highest standards from everyone and as a result, outcomes for young people are excellent and continue to improve (Progress 8 in 2024 was +0.62)

“The school is a positive environment for learning. Pupils’ behaviour is sensible in lessons and around the school” OFSTED 2023

We have the highest aspirations and expectations for young people. This means that university progression rates are excellent, there are lots of extra curricular activities and a full programme of school excursions. At the same time, behaviour in lessons and around the school is consistently excellent. Teachers can look forward to working with engaged, motivated, sensible classes and doing what they do best.

“Pupils with SEND and those who speak English as an additional language are well-supported." OFSTED 2023

Harrow High is a diverse and inclusive school; our learners come from a wide range of backgrounds and have a wide range of prior ability. We have the highest aspirations for them all and when working here, staff make a difference every day.

If this sounds like the kind of place you want to work then make an application or simply an appointment to come and visit us. If you are talented, highly motivated, committed to your own personal development and determined to make a difference, we would love to talk to you

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