Teacher of MFL (French and/or German)

Tottington High School, Bury, Lancashire, BL8 3LY

14 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  3rd June 2025

• Closing date

  9 May 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  24 April 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4
• Subject: Languages
• Working pattern: Full time: 32.5 hours - full time - all year
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £31,650 – £49,084 FTE salary per annum
• Pay scale: M1 - UPS3

What skills and experience we're looking for

Are you an enthusiastic and dedicated MFL teacher with a passion for French and/or German?

Do you believe in the power of languages to open minds and broaden horizons? Tottington High School is seeking a dynamic and innovative teacher to join our vibrant MFL department.

Key Responsibilities:

• Plan and deliver engaging, differentiated lessons in French and/or German
• Assess, monitor and support student progress
• Contribute to curriculum development and departmental initiatives
• Inspire students to achieve their full potential in language learning

What We’re Looking For:

• A qualified teacher (QTS or equivalent)
• Experience teaching French and/or German at secondary level
• Strong subject knowledge and a passion for languages
• A commitment to high standards of teaching, learning, and student success
• Creativity, energy, and excellent communication skills

What the school offers its staff

Shaw Education Trust offer the following employee benefits with your Teaching or Support Staff employment:

• An excellent Local Government Pension Scheme (Support Staff) / Teachers Pension (Teaching Staff)
• Support Staff only based on working full time, all year - Generous holiday entitlement from your first day of employment (37 days holiday rising to 39 days after 5 years’ service including Bank Holidays)
• Electric Car Scheme: Environmentally friendly vehicles with our electric car scheme.
• Access to Medicash Health & Wellbeing Plan: Enjoy health services designed to support your well-being.
• Free DiscountForTeachers Scheme for all staff (Support and Teaching), Exclusive discounts to save money with a wide selection of discounts and exclusive offers from hundreds of the biggest brands.
• Free Eye Tests
• Cycle to work scheme

• Access to our Institute of Education and fantastic opportunities to help you grow, contribute and flourish in your role and in the Trust.

We know our people are the key to our success and so we’re committed to ensuring the employment experience at Shaw Education Trust is a rewarding one.

Colleagues within the Trust benefit from: Access to a full range of courses both in-house and professionally accredited. These courses include all of the National Professional Qualifications – NPQH, NPQSL, NPQEYL, NPQLL, NPQLT, NPQLTD, NPQLBC are all delivered by the Shaw Education Trust as a delivery partner for Ambition Institute. In addition, we provide access to the NPQEL for Executive Leaders.

• Experienced leadership and subject-specific support.
• Guidance from former HMIs and serving Ofsted Inspectors within the Trust.
• Access to the Trust’s Institute of Education and SCITT.
• Opportunities to work with different schools within the Trust as a Professional Advocate.
• Participating in peer reviews.
• Access to a suite of online courses.
• Placement projects within our family of schools.

Further details about the role

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.

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.

Qualified Secondary Teacher - JD.pdf - 519 KB (opens in new tab)

Tottington High School - Teacher of MFL - Job Advert - April 2025.docx - 70.3 KB (opens in new tab)

About Tottington High School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 935 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Tottington High School website
• Email address: jayne.clarence@shaw-education.org.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/tottington-high-school

Tottington High School is a secondary academy located in Tottington, Bury, providing high-quality education to pupils aged 11–16 years.

Tottington’s welcoming, lively and innovative school community helps pupils to leave the school as well-rounded individuals with ambition and self-confidence. School staff recognise the potential of all their students and provide opportunities that challenge their abilities, resulting in the school having a good record of consistently achieving impressive academic results coupled with personalised support and guidance; helping every student achieve their full potential – culturally, morally, socially, spiritually as well as academically.

Our Mission Statement states:

“We pledge, through respectful relationships, to ensure all members of our community are supported in taking responsibility for their own learning, to become ‘well-rounded’ and caring individuals, with the skills, attributes, qualifications and experiences to prepare them for their and our futures.”

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