Teacher of MFL
Leigh Academy Halley, London, SE3 8EPDeadline is today
Start date details
January 2025
Closing date
31 October 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
23 October 2024
Job details
Job role
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Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Subject
- Languages
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- MPS/UPS commensurate with experience + Inner London Allowance
What skills and experience we're looking for
Are you seeking a new opportunity to join a highly successful comprehensive school that is committed to providing an outstanding education of excellence for all? Are you someone who is a passionate Teacher of Modern Foreign Languages? Would you thrive when working with other committed and innovative practitioners? If so, Leigh Academy Halley Academy is now recruiting for a Teacher of MFL to join us as in January 2025.
This is a truly fantastic opportunity for a passionate educator to become part of a well-established, highly collaborative and successful MFL team to ensure that students enjoy a challenging, dynamic and rewarding MFL curriculum.
If this sounds like an environment within which you would like to work, apply to join our team. The successful applicant will be enthusiastic, flexible, well organised and able to work as part of a team as well as having the ability to work alone when required.
Key responsibilities, as outlined in the job description, include;
- Set high expectations which inspire, motivate and challenge students.
- Promote good progress and outcomes by students.
- Demonstrate good subject and curriculum knowledge.
- Plan and teach well-structured lessons.
- Adapt teaching to respond to the strengths and needs of all students.
- Make accurate and productive use of assessment.
- Manage behaviour effectively to ensure a good and safe learning environment.
What the school offers its staff
We deem this to be a great position on the basis that;
- We offer a vibrant and committed MFL Department, passionate about languages and dedicated to supporting students throughout their learning experience and securing the best possible outcomes for them.
- We offer pupils the very best in MFL learning opportunities by delivering high quality teaching via our bespoke curriculum, alongside inspiring extracurricular opportunities.
- We believe in developing staff into outstanding practitioners through our excellent CPD opportunities.
- This is further supported through our membership of the Leigh Academies Trust which provides regular teach-meets and co-operative training sessions within the trust to facilitate staff and student growth.
- All students study either French or Spanish in Key Stage 3 as part of the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme, and 80% of students in Years 10 and 11 continue their language studies at GCSE level.
This is a permanent, full time opportunity offering MPS commensurate with experience + Inner London Allowance. Successful candidates would need to be able to teach MFL to GCSE level. This opportunity would also be suitable for ECTs.
Further details about the role
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
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About Leigh Academy Halley
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 19
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 901 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Leigh Academy Halley website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- joinus@latrust.org.uk
Arranging a visit to Leigh Academy Halley
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