Regional Lead Practitioner for French (Cambridgeshire)
Cottenham Village College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB24 8UA3 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2026
Closing date
15 May 2026 at 9am
Date listed
5 May 2026
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subject
- French
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £53,063.00 - £80,668.00 Annually (Actual)
Regional Lead Practitioner for French (Cambridgeshire) job summary
Join Our Team as a Regional Lead Practitioner for French at Astrea Academy Trust!
Are you passionate about delivering high quality French lessons and striving for everyone to succeed? Do you want to be seen as a leader within your subject area? Are you looking to take the next step in your career and inspire others?
If yes, then we might just have the role for you as a Regional Lead Practitioner for French to support our Cambridgeshire Secondary Schools.
About the Role:
We are building an exceptional team of enthusiastic and highly skilled Regional Lead Practitioners, committed to driving excellence and transformative change in our schools. If you have a deep passion for MFL in particular French, a proven track record of delivering impact and outstanding results, and the expertise to break down barriers to success, empowering scholars and driving social mobility, this could be the role for you.
As a Regional Lead Practitioner, you will teach consistently excellent lessons aligned with our Trust-wide approach of delivering a knowledge-rich curriculum through explicit instruction (inspired by Rosenshein and Lemov). You will work alongside our Secondary Education Team, benefiting from the guidance of leading subject and educational experts who will provide unmatched support, constructive feedback, and meaningful opportunities for growth.
If you are interested in this role we would strongly recommend you reach out and arrange an informal conversation with one of the team or arrange to meet on site at one of our schools and see the work in action.
Key Responsibilities:
- Raise achievement in KS4 by teaching excellent lessons, delivering impactful specialist support, and cultivating a scholarly culture.
- Support the design and implementation of an exceptional KS4 curriculum.
- Provide subject-specific curriculum expertise to the wider Astrea Secondary Curriculum Team.
- Lead on the improvement of scholar outcomes in your subject and drive forward the improvement of teaching standards.
Accountable for:
- High-quality leadership of projects and delivering on agreed targets.
- Securing exceptional scholar outcomes across the Trust schools.
- Providing high-quality support in the specified subject area, and liaising with other Regional Lead Practitioners, National Subject Leads, and Heads of Department to develop curriculum plans, resources, and policies.
As a Teacher:
- Follow programmes of work, schemes of learning, and exam specifications.
- Take part in the review, development, and management of activities relating to the curriculum, organisation, and pastoral functions of the school.
- Ensure the effective/efficient deployment of classroom (TA) support.
Please note that the above lists are not exhaustive, and further information can be found within the Job Description attached.
Why Join Us?
Astrea Academy Trust is committed to providing an inclusive, aspirational, and academic education for all our scholars. We believe in teaching powerful knowledge and creating a scholarly culture that is warm, disciplined, and joyful. Our values-driven approach ensures impeccable behaviour, allowing teachers to focus on teaching and pupils to focus on learning.
Interested in Applying?
If you are passionate about education, looking for a fresh opportunity, or simply want to make a positive impact, we would love to hear from you. Take a look at the job description and candidate pack to find out more about the role and how to apply. If you want to discuss this role in greater detail, please get in touch with Ben.Drury@astreaacademytrust.org
We’re looking for individuals who can make a genuine impact so do share your achievements in disrupting disadvantage and please use your supporting statement to show how you have disrupted disadvantage in your current role. Share clear data that evidences your impact and explain the specific interventions you used to remove barriers for disadvantaged students. Highlight your strongest achievements by telling us exactly what difference you made, and how you made it.
Please note that this role could be based from any of our Cambridgeshire schools.
Commitment to Safeguarding and EDI:
Astrea Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All posts are subject to satisfactory background checks, including references and enhanced DBS checks. We value diversity and encourage applications from candidates who are underrepresented in our workforce. As a Disability Confident employer, we are committed to promoting a culture that ensures there are no barriers to the recruitment, development, and progression of disabled staff across the trust. We provide reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process to ensure disabled job applicants have the best opportunity to demonstrate their abilities.
Flexible Interview Dates:
Please note that interview dates are flexible to accommodate your schedule. We reserve the right to close this position early if we receive a high volume of candidates, so do not delay, apply today.
Ready to Make a Difference?
If you're ready to take the next step in your career and contribute to our dynamic and forward-thinking team, apply today and be a part of our mission to create a positive impact!
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Astrea Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and staff. Every child should feel safe and should be protected from any form of child abuse. We have robust policies and procedures that support our commitment to Safeguarding, this includes our Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy. The in-house Safeguarding teams at each Academy work in partnership with families and safeguarding partners to ensure the safety of children is paramount. We are committed to ensuring that all staff access regular, contextual safeguarding training to meet the needs of the local community.
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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Cottenham Village College
- School type
- Academies, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 877 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Cottenham Village College website
Welcome to Cottenham Village College, part of the Astrea Academy Trust, a highly-successful 11-16 mixed academy situated close to the beautiful city of Cambridge; here you will find hard-working, well-behaved students and friendly, dedicated staff who are committed to a fully inclusive, comprehensive education.
The college was established in 1963, one of several village colleges in the region that were the inspiration of educational pioneer Henry Morris, who believed that the school should be at the heart of its community and that education should be a lifelong process. This vision of a school that serves and involves its whole community, that fosters high aspirations and inspires a love of learning is as central to our ethos today as it was when it opened.
Through a highly-ambitious curriculum at CVC, we aim to foster students’ curiosity, unlock their potential and raise their aspirations, as well as ensure that students achieve high levels of attainment that will open doors for their future. A stimulating and broad curriculum also places students in a strong position to question and debate the world around them, making them intellectually resilient and prepares them for citizenship in a democratic society. We believe this is a right of all students and one which is liberating and empowering.
We are equally proud of the wider curricular provision at CVC, both in formal lessons and outside the classroom. Our extensive range of extra-curricular activities, including sports, music, the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award programme and residential trips, help to give all students a fully-rounded education and creates opportunity for their personal, as well as their academic, growth.
Cottenham Village College is a friendly, positive and exciting place to work and to learn and we take great pride in the high standards our students consistently achieve. We have very high expectations of all members of the College community and provide an inclusive, friendly and supportive environment in which everyone can thrive and achieve. Students leave as happy, well-qualified and well-motivated individuals who go on to excel in local sixth forms, colleges, universities and the wider world.
I hope you find the information on the school’s website useful. If there is anything you cannot find, please do not hesitate to contact us. If you wish to visit the school to see it for yourself, please contact the school and we would be delighted to show you around.
Zoe Andrews, Principal
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