19 days remaining to apply

  • Job start date

    1 September 2025

  • Closing date

    22 April 2025 at 12pm (midday)

  • Date listed

    24 March 2025

Job details

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Key stage

Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5

Subjects

French, Spanish

Working pattern

Part time: 19.5 hours per week, days TBC

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

£31,650 and £49,084

What skills and experience we're looking for

  • An excellent classroom teacher with a clear understanding of what makes for effective teaching and learning and the capacity to share it with others.
  • An understanding of how to analyse data effectively.
  • ICT competency.

What the school offers its staff

We have high expectations of our staff and students and work around the key principles of kindness, aspiration, and perseverance. We are looking for committed people who care passionately about education and the welfare and progress of students. This is also an incredibly supportive and friendly school with a very caring pastoral team.

Further details about the role

TEACHER of FRENCH/SPANISH

ECT/Main Scale/UPS

Part time – 0.6 - Permanent Contract

Start date – September 2025

We are looking for an enthusiastic and passionate teacher of French/Spanish to work within a successful and supportive Modern Foreign Languages Faculty. This position is ideally suited for an ECT.

This is a fantastic time to join the school. We are an oversubscribed and popular school with results consistently placing us in the top 20% of schools nationally. Both the French and Spanish departments are highly successful with a track record of outstanding results. The department have recently adopted Dr Gianfranco Conti’s method of Extensive Processing Instruction (EPI) to enable all of our students to access and succeed at language learning.

We are looking for a teacher who wants to work in a strong team, in a school in a beautiful area where there are lots of opportunities to develop both within the faculty and in the pastoral systems of the school.

Please see our school website for more information.

Closing date: Tuesday 22nd April 2025

Commitment to safeguarding

The Purbeck School values the diversity of our workforce and welcomes applications from all members of the community. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and this is a commitment we expect all staff and volunteers to share. The successful candidate will be required to have a Disclosure and Barring Service check in line with the Government safer recruitment guidelines.

Applying for the job

Apply for the job by following the link below.

CVs are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.
How to apply
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Additional documents

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

About The Purbeck School

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 18
Education phase
Secondary
School size
1040 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 18
Ofsted report
View Ofsted report
Phone number
01929 550077

The Purbeck School is a wonderful place to work. Over the past three years we have grown to be a very successful school with excellent results placing us comfortably in the top 20% of schools nationally.

We have high expectations of our staff and students and work around the key principles of kindness, aspiration, and perseverance. We are looking for committed people who care passionately about education and the welfare and progress of students. This is also an incredibly supportive and friendly school with a very caring pastoral team.

Arranging a visit to The Purbeck School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email spenney@purbeck.dorset.sch.uk.

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