Teacher of MFL (French)
Longfield Academy, Longfield, Kent, DA3 7PHThis job expired on 23 April 2019 – see similar jobs
Job start date
1 September 2019
Closing date
23 April 2019 at 1am
Date listed
22 March 2019
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subjects
- View all Frenchjobs, View all Spanishjobs
Working pattern
Full-time equivalent salary
- Main pay range 1 to Upper pay range 3, £24,859 to £40,520
Additional allowances
Being part of Leigh Academies Trust: As of 1st January 2019, our Trust is comprised of 23 geographically organised academies (11 secondaries, 11 primaries and 1 special) educating over 15,000 students, and employing over 2,500 talented staff. We also have three further academies in development phase, due to open in September 2020. The Trust is establishing four ‘clusters’ of academies: North West Kent; Central Kent; South East London; Medway. In addition, the Trust is responsible for one of the region’s biggest initial teaching training providers and a large teaching school.
As part of Leigh Academies Trust you will have ample opportunity to collaborate with your peers both within the academy and across the whole Trust. This is an important part of our vision as we know through experience that we perform better when we work together. You are supported to undertake regular self-development to continue your professional development and hopefully progress further within the organisation.
Teacher of MFL (French) job summary
About the role: If you are an ambitious and enthusiastic Teacher of Languages we have a truly unique and exciting opportunity to join a successful, over-subscribed academy offering excellent career development programmes. We are looking for an MFL Teacher to join our team to deliver French from Key Stage 3 to 5 from September 2019; the ability to also offer Spanish is a bonus but not essential.
Longfield Academy is part of the DfE MFL Hub project led by Rachel Hawkes and her team at the University of York and in partnership with the NCELP (National Centre for Excellence in Language Pedagogy), along with three other academies in the Leigh Academies Trust. Working with us provides you with access to high quality, ready to use CPD in your classroom and to take part in a national project on practice and research, which has the aim of raising GCSE uptake. This initiative offers superb career development.
We also have scope for our successful candidate to work across the academy with responsibility for co-ordinating the IB Middle Years Programme, receiving a TLR of £2,887 for this role. This opportunity is like no other, and if you’re an exceptional Languages practitioner, we want to hear from you.
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.
About Longfield Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
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- School size
- 1035 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Longfield Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- talent@latrust.org.uk
School location
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