Teacher of Languages (Maternity Cover)
Brookfield Community School, Southampton, Hampshire, SO31 7DU4 days remaining to apply
Job start date
6 January 2025
Closing date
30 September 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
17 September 2024
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Subjects
- French, German, Languages, Spanish
Working pattern
- Full time: Full teaching timetable.
Contract type
- Fixed term - Up to 12 months - Maternity or parental leave cover
Pay scale
- Main Pay Scale
What skills and experience we're looking for
Brookfield is an oversubscribed 11-16 mixed comprehensive with around 1800 students on roll.
We seek to appoint an inspirational and enthusiastic Languages specialist to join our successful team of dedicated teachers, committed to raising aspirations and bringing out the best in our students.
Languages play a key role in the school curriculum, with all Year 7 students having the opportunity to experience a four-week taster of French, Spanish and German in term 1, before deciding which language they would prefer to continue studying. Students then continue learning their allocated language throughout KS3, with some students offered the opportunity to pick up a second language at the start of Year 9.
This post offers an opportunity for an inspirational practitioner to join a team that achieves excellent outcomes for its students. In recent years, GCSE results in Languages have been above the national average. In 2024 84%, 100% and 100% of students achieved a grade 4 or above in French, German and Spanish respectively, with 31%, 61% and 65% achieving a grade 7 or above.
What the school offers its staff
- A committed, enthusiastic, open and accessible team of staff with a desire to continue to move the school forward.
- A thorough and engaging staff wellbeing programme including access to counselling, private GP and physiotherapy.
- Excellent and varied CPD to ensure you continue to develop.
- Broad and diverse opportunities for professional development.
- Participation in our teacher appraisal process, including regular meetings with your appraiser.
- Access to our Brookfield sharing practice site.
- Bespoke 1:1 support available from our Leading Practitioners.
Provision for ECTs:
ECTs are exceptionally well supported at Brookfield and all staff have access to a full range of high-quality professional development opportunities, complemented by a highly regarded new staff induction programme.
- A mentor who will run regular mentor meetings to help guide you through your ECT year
- A 10% reduction in teaching timetable in year 1
- A 5% reduction in teaching timetable in year 2
- A full ECT induction programme for the ECT years, run and delivered by Ambition Institute
- An in-school bespoke additional training tailored to each ECT
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
Please complete the online application.
CVs are not accepted.
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About Brookfield Community School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 1814 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Brookfield Community School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- recruitment@brookfield.hants.sch.uk
Arranging a visit to Brookfield Community School
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