Teacher of Language Acquisition (maternity cover contract)

Leigh Academy Blackheath, London, SE3 8SY

18 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  September 2025

• Closing date

  21 April 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  1 April 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: Languages
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Fixed term - 1 year - Maternity or parental leave cover
• Pay scale: MPS/UPS based on experience + Inner London Allowance

What skills and experience we're looking for

Leigh Academy Blackheath is seeking to appoint a full time Teacher of Language Acquisition (maternity cover contract), joining us from September 2025. We are looking for an exceptional teacher who can deliver high-quality learning opportunities for our students in this curriculum area. Applications are welcomed from both experienced and newly qualified teachers as we can offer fantastic professional development at every stage of a teacher’s career.

We believe that every learner is entitled to an enriching, varied and personalised education: delivered through a broad and balanced curriculum that provides challenge, irrespective of need, starting point or background. Our commitment to maximising the potential of every child, teaching them the skills they need to be successful and nurturing a desire to be a lifelong learner, will prepare them for whichever career path they choose to follow.

We’d like to hear from candidates who are:

• Able to maintain a positive growth mindset despite challenges they may face;
• Collaborative, able to build strong professional relationships;
• Able to motivate and inspire students and staff to achieve their full potential;
• Energetic and have a can-do attitude;
• Confident and has strong career aspirations;
• Committed to safeguarding and the happiness and wellbeing of everyone at the Academy;
• Prepared to be involved in leading co-curricular activities either within or outside of their teaching subject;
• Confident in delivering lessons with strong knowledge of the Language Acquisition curriculum;
• Engaged in evidence-informed pedagogy and relentlessly focused on improving their own practice;
• Passionate about their own personal leadership and subject knowledge.

If you want to join a highly successful team who are passionate about research-informed education, and you can inspire learners to go beyond what they are taught and seek what they do not yet know, then we want to hear from you.

What the school offers its staff

What we are offering:

• A salary commensurate with the profile of the post;
• Bespoke CPD with mentoring and coaching opportunities;
• The opportunity to work laterally across a number of Leigh Academies Trust schools to benchmark best practice and to be involved in teaching and learning innovation;
• The opportunity to work in an environment where student behaviour is exemplary and students are respectful and ambitious;
• The opportunity to contribute to a new, highly rigorous Language Acquisition curriculum which spans across two key stages;
• The chance to develop your knowledge of both GCSE and the International Baccalaureate Post 16 diploma.

Further details about the role

This is a maternity cover contract until December 2025 offering MPS/UPS, based on experience.

Based on the quality and quantity of applications received, Leigh Academies Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy sooner than the specified closing date. Applicants will be notified of this where possible. Therefore, early applications are encouraged.

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

Apply for the job by following the link below.

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.

Teacher JD 2022 - 2025-04-01T141837.571.pdf - 91.7 KB (opens in new tab)

About Leigh Academy Blackheath

• School type: Free School, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 959 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Leigh Academy Blackheath website
• Email address: joinus@latrust.org.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/leigh-academy-blackheath

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