Teacher of MFL

Rushey Mead Academy, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE4 7AN

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Job start date
26 August 2025
Closing date
16 March 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
13 March 2025

Job details

Job role: Teacher
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Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Subject: Languages
Working pattern: Full time
Contract type: Permanent
Pay scale: MPS/UPS (£31,650 – £49,084 per annum)

What skills and experience we're looking for

Teacher of MFL

Full Time- Permanent The successful candidate will teach MFL throughout the age range 11-16

Start Date: August 2025

Job ref: MFL 2025

Salary: MPS/UPS (£31,650 – £49,084 per annum)

We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic MFL specialist to join our highly successful MFL department, in a school where:

Staff are nurtured to develop their craft.
Excellent CPD opportunities through our professional learning Mondays, weekly learning sessions and CPD Library.
Where there is a strong academic ethos and high expectations of students;
Where behaviour management is centralised and teachers are enabled to flourish.
The successful candidate will teach French throughout the age range 7-11 with a possibility of teaching Spanish at Key Stage 4. The academy is well placed to offer a comprehensive support package to NQTs from all routes into teaching, including PGCE, SCITT and Schools Direct.
Both new and established teachers will be supported and encouraged to develop their practice by engaging in the numerous opportunities to collaborate and share ideas with colleagues within our Professional Learning programme.

Rushey Mead Academy is well placed to offer a comprehensive support package to ECTs from all routes into teaching, including PGCE, SCITT, Schools Direct and Teach First. Both new and established teachers will be supported and encouraged to develop their practice by engaging in the numerous opportunities to collaborate and share ideas with colleagues within our Professional Learning programme.

Rushey Mead Academy is part of The Mead Educational Trust (TMET) which is a growing partnership of primary and secondary schools situated in the East Midlands. The Trust draws its educational excellence from the established track record of the high-quality education provision of Rushey Mead Academy, the Trust's convertor academy.

TMET provides its academies access to a world-class education network and staff with an employer providing high quality professional development. We are committed to ensuring each academy enables every pupil to achieve the very best. We believe that together we make a positive difference.

Please see the enclosed Job Description and Person Specification for more information.

The successful candidate will be required to undertake an Enhanced DBS Disclosure check. This post will involve contact with vulnerable groups (children, young people and/or adults) and is therefore, exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. This exemption means that shortlisted applicants for this post willbe required to declare all criminal convictions, cautions, reprimands, and bind- overs both spent and unspent in their application, before interview and regardless of the passage of time.

How to apply:

If you are interested in this post, please complete the application form online, including a cover letter detailing why you are a suitable candidate for the position should accompany your completed application form.

Should you have any queries regarding your application please contact school.

Please see the documents listed below, which may assist you in making your application:
- Applicant Pack
- Job Description
- Application and Recruitment Process document
Closing date: Sunday 16th March 2025 midnight

Interview date: Monday 24th March 2025

Rushey Mead Academy is committed to:
- safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment
- equal opportunities and equal value for staff and students, prevention of discrimination in its many forms
NO AGENCIES OR CV’s PLEASE

What the school offers its staff

We can offer you the opportunity to advance your career within a supportive academy environment.

This is an exciting opportunity to be a part of a high achieving and forward-thinking department within a highly successful school. You will be able to take advantage of their evidence led practice and learn from them to aid you contribute to a department which regularly achieves above the national average.

We look to improve, not because we are not good enough but because we can always do better

As a result of an existing post holder being promoted, we are seeking to appoint a language enthusiast to join our successful MFL department, in a school where:

education is valued by students and families;
a fully inclusive ’Languages for All’ provision is offered,
every student can experience the joy and challenge of learning another language, regardless of their starting point or background.
results in French have been significantly above national averages for many years; progress 8 score of 1.16
the academy’s progress 8 score significantly above average at +1.0 for two consecutive years and ranked in the top 5% Nationally;
there is a strong academic ethos and high expectations of students;
the Professional Learning of teachers and development of their subject knowledge is a priority;
behaviour management systems are centralised and teachers are enabled to flourish.

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.