Teacher of MFL (French) - Temporary 0.4FTE
Silverdale School, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S11 9QH9 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
13 April 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
24 March 2025
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Subjects
- French, Spanish
Working pattern
- Part time: 0.4FTE
Contract type
- Fixed term - 1 year
Pay scale
- M1 to UPS3
What skills and experience we're looking for
Required for September 2025, an enthusiastic and qualified Modern Foreign Languages teacher. This is an exciting opportunity to join a dedicated and highly successful team and would suit a newly qualified or experienced teacher. The candidate will be required to teach Key Stage 3 and 4 French. The successful candidate may also have the opportunity to teach Spanish at KS3.
The post holder must at all times carry out their responsibilities within the spirit of the school and trust policies and within the framework of legislation relating to academies and education, with particular regard to the statutory responsibilities of the trust and the governing body of the school.
The job description should be read alongside the range of professional duties of teachers as set out the ‘teachers' pay and conditions’ document. The post-holder will be expected to undertake duties in line with the professional standards for qualified teachers and uphold the professional code of the Department for Education (DfE).
What the school offers its staff
Silverdale School is an extremely popular and high achieving 11-18 comprehensive inthe south west of Sheffield and is the founding school of Chorus Education Trust. Silverdale has 1,450 students on roll including 450 in Silverdale Sixth Form. In 2020 it was named the Sunday Times Top State Secondary School in the North of the Decade, in recognition of its sustained success.
Silverdale has an excellent record of student achievement at both key stage 4 and key stage 5. At our heart is one of the country’s original teaching school hubs, the South Yorkshire Teaching Hub, which includes the Sheffield Teacher Training Alliance and National Modern Languages SCITT.
At Silverdale, we benefit from a new building with excellent facilities, which was expanded in 2023 to provide further state of the art teaching facilities and a dedicated Sixth Form centre.
In addition to trust-wide benefits for all staff, those at Silverdale School also have access to:
- Supportive and friendly staff and leadership team.
- Free staff parking.
- Opportunity to be part of the varied extracurricular offering, including Duke of Edinburgh’s Award programme.
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.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Silverdale School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1466 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Silverdale School website
- Email address
- kbeasley@chorustrust.org
Silverdale School is an extremely popular and high-achieving 11-18 comprehensive in the south west of Sheffield and is now the founding school of Chorus Education Trust. The school achieved the best GCSE results in 2018 of any state school in Sheffield. At Post 16 the progress students make places Silverdale in the top 10% of schools nationally. At its heart is one of the country’s largest Teaching Schools, the Sheffield Teaching School Alliance. Silverdale moved into a brand new building in January 2009 with a full complement of facilities. Silverdale School is part of Chorus Education Trust, and as such all appointees may be required to work at any Trust site in the future.
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