Spanish Teacher

The Reach Free School, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, WD3 8AB

3 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  September 2025 (July 2025 start for Early Career Teachers)

• Closing date

  21 May 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  16 May 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
  • Suitable for early career teachers
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
• Subject: Spanish
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £33,233 to £53,482
• Additional allowances:

  plus a £2,000 recruitment and retention payment

What skills and experience we're looking for

You will be an enthusiastic and knowledgeable educator with a strong commitment to Spanish language teaching. Your lessons will engage and motivate pupils of all abilities and you will bring creativity, energy, and high standards to the classroom. With a belief in every pupil’s potential, you will help foster a vibrant culture of learning and contribute actively to the wider life of the school.

What the school offers its staff

At The Reach Free School

In return, we will offer you:

• A happy and supportive working environment with high expectations and standards

• Access to the latest technology to assist in developing your teaching and learning

• Competitive salaries based on skills and experience

• Access to the Teachers’ Pension Scheme

• A staff committee that organises various social events

• A comprehensive employee assistance programme

• A £500 new employee referral scheme

• Free parking

• A BUPA cash plan to contribute to medical care

• A Cycle to Work Salary Sacrifice Scheme

• Up to five days paid leave in compassionate, emergency or exceptional circumstances. For example, our staff can see their children perform in assemblies or shows.

• A network of outstanding practitioners to collaborate with and learn from, both in school and across the Watford Partnership for Teacher Training

• A comprehensive professional development programme together with opportunities to further develop your career

Further details about the role

Spanish at The Reach Free School

Spanish is a core subject at The Reach Free School and is taught to all classes three times a week. Spanish is the only language taught at the school, enabling pupils to focus on this from year 7. A number of the primary feeder schools have also adopted Spanish as their language, meaning that pupils are joining the school with an understanding of the basics before accelerating their learning in Key Stage 3 and beyond. At GCSE the school has a very high uptake for Spanish with around 70% of pupils in each cohort taking the subject. At A Level the subject is a popular choice for students to continue their study. Around the school, signage is in both English and Spanish to demonstrate the commitment to the subject and in years 7 and 10 pupils attend residentials to Granada and Valencia.

Main duties

A teacher at The Reach Free School will:

• Deliver planned and engaging lessons to pupils across the school

• Contribute to the planning of Schemes of Learning, indicating approaches to teaching, content, classroom organisation, resources, etc.

• Create a happy, secure and stimulating learning environment

• Implement whole-school and departmental priorities

• Contribute to the review of Department Action Plans, audits, curriculum overviews and policies and handbook

• Devise performances which demonstrate the artistic talents of pupils in the school

• Work with others in the department and the wider school to ensure that high performance standards are achieved and maintained

• Ensure that the regulations and procedures relating to Health & Safety are followed, taking responsibility for the safety, welfare and discipline of pupils within the learning environment

• Support and uphold the ACE ethos of the school – achievement, community and enjoyment

• Have a sympathetic understanding of every child’s needs

• Have clear aims and objectives for every lesson and communicate them to the pupils

• Have well-planned work, imaginatively introduced, which caters for pupils’ needs

• Utilise technology to enhance the quality and variety of teaching and to support pupils in using this key tool in their own learning

• Engage in continuous formative and summative assessment, tracking the attainment and progress of pupils in line with school systems and providing guidance to pupils on the next steps in their learning

• Maintain pupil records and report progress to parents

• Secure high standards of behaviour in line with the School’s Code of Conduct and Behaviour Policy

• Share their talents, skills, ideas and enthusiasms for the benefit of the whole school and should be ready to accept responsibilities that extend beyond the classroom

• Complete the requirements of the school’s performance management process as outlined in the school calendar

• Attend to personal and professional development to ensure you keep abreast of local, national and school initiatives and best practice

Commitment to safeguarding

The Reach Free School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and expects all staff to share this commitment. In accordance with our Safer Recruitment Policy we are unable to process applications without a fully completed application form. The successful applicant must obtain DBS clearance at enhanced level. The school will also carry out a prohibition from teaching check, as well as in-depth online checks. Non-disclosure may lead to termination of your employment.

Applying for the job

Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to kmckay@reachfree.co.uk

CVs are not accepted.

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.

Additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

Spanish Teacher - Advert.pdf - 67.3 KB (opens in new tab)

Application Pack - Spanish Teacher.pdf - 2.32 MB (opens in new tab)

About The Reach Free School

• School type: Free School, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 755 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: The Reach Free School website
• Email address: kmckay@reachfree.co.uk
• Phone number: 01923711517
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-reach-free-school

The Reach Free School is an 11 to 18 school in Rickmansworth, which serves pupils of all backgrounds and abilities. Opened in September 2013, the school was founded by a group of teachers and local parents in response to a significant demand for more secondary school places in the area.

All involved with the school have high aspirations for our pupils and high expectations of them. As such we expect all pupils to: commit their best efforts to all that they do; support each other to achieve their potential; work with their teachers to exceed their goals; demonstrate exemplary behaviour in all that they do; take pride in their school and its community within its walls and beyond; enjoy learning.

The Reach Free School plays an active role in the community, working with local businesses, supporting local events and providing a hub for local services. Pupils are very much involved in the school’s wider responsibilities, developing skills in leadership and decision making, communication and collaboration and independent, self led learning.

A sense of purpose and responsibility pervades lessons and activities at The Reach Free School and it is important that our pupils recognise their own responsibilities as members of the community. It is this that underpins The Reach Free School’s ethos; Achievement, Community, Enjoyment – ACE.

Arranging a visit to The Reach Free School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email kmckay@reachfree.co.uk.

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