Teacher of French (0.8fte)
Hodge Hill Girls' School, Birmingham, West Midlands, B36 8EYThis job expired on 7 November 2025 – see similar jobs
Job start date
13 April 2026
Closing date
7 November 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
23 October 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teacher or lecturer
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Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Subject
- French
Working pattern
- Part time: 26 hours
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- MPR - UPR
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are seeking an enthusiastic and talented Teacher of French to join our dynamic Modern Foreign Languages department. The successful candidate will be passionate about languages and capable of inspiring a love of French students across Key Stages 3 and 4. A desire to contribute to the wider life of the school, including enrichment and extracurricular activities, is strongly encouraged.
Applications are warmly welcomed from both ECTs and experienced teachers.
The ideal candidate will:
- Be a qualified teacher of MFL, specialising in French, with the ability to teach Spanish
- Demonstrate excellent subject knowledge and a creative, engaging teaching style
- Hold high expectations for student achievement and behaviour
- Foster a positive, inclusive, and stimulating learning environment
- Show enthusiasm for contributing to departmental growth and wider school initiatives
Located in the heart of the Hodge Hill community, we are a small secondary girls’ school with strong community values. We know and care for every pupil as an individual. We strive to meet the needs of each member of our school community, celebrating diversity and always striving for equality in our school family and the wider world.
Our ethos encourages mutual respect and support to enable every pupil to make the greatest personal, social and academic progress during their time with us, preparing them for successful careers and fulfilling lives. A relentless drive for the best academic progress for each individual pupil, sits comfortably alongside the wider curriculum where values education embraces citizenship, pupil voice, charity, and community work.
Here at Hodge Hill Girls' School, we genuinely value and strive to enhance working partnerships with our families, feeder schools and local community. This partnership is essential in raising standards and achievement; every member of our family has a role to play in raising aspirations to ensure we really are "Educating Tomorrow's Women Today".
How to apply
Application forms are available from our school website at:
https://www.hodgehgs.bham.sch.uk/page/?title=Vacancies&pid=12. Completed application forms must be emailed to HR@hodgehgs.bham.sch.uk
If you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, please assume that you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.
We do not accept CVs. Applications will only be considered if submitted with a fully completed application form.
Safer Recruitment
The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to all necessary pre-employment checks, including: enhanced DBS; Prohibition check; Childcare Disqualification (where applicable): qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work.
Safeguarding is our top priority. We encourage all applicants to review our Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy, which outlines our commitment to the safety and wellbeing of students.
References
All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references.
Short-listed candidates
An online search will also be carried out as part of due diligence on all short-listed candidates.
Rehabilitation of Offenders
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2000. Which means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account.
Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.
We encourage visits from prospective candidates to meet members of our school community and experience our school at first hand. If you would like to arrange a visit, please contact Mrs N. Panton via email: HR@hodgehgs.bham.sch.uk
What the school offers its staff
In return, we can offer you:
- A caring and happy community that always puts our young people first
- A supportive environment that takes an active interest in your
professional development and personal wellbeing.
- A supportive Senior Leadership Team
- Access to a wide range of CPD courses
- Use of a school laptop
- Access to the teachers’ pension scheme
- 24 hour access to the Employee Assistance Programme
- A strong and supportive Governing Body
- Classrooms equipped with projection and interactive capabilities
- A well-equipped staffroom
- Free on-site car parking
- Cycle to work scheme
- Birmingham City Council reward scheme
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be required to undergo an enhanced DBS check, along with other relevant pre-employment checks.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare any cautions and convictions that are not protected under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 2974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended).
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Hodge Hill Girls' School
- Organisation type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- Size
- 749 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- Email address
- HR@hodgehgs.bham.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01214643094
Located in the heart of the Hodge Hill community, we are a small secondary girl’s school with strong community values. We know and care for every pupil as an individual. We strive to meet the needs of each member of our school community, celebrating diversity and always striving for equality in our school family and the wider world.
Arranging a visit to Hodge Hill Girls' School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email HR@hodgehgs.bham.sch.uk.
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