Teacher of MFL (Spanish and/or French) maternity cover
Hilbre High School, Wirral, Merseyside, CH48 6EQ12 days remaining to apply
Start date details
from Easter 2025
Closing date
27 January 2025 at 9am
Date listed
13 January 2025
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Subject
- Languages
Working pattern
- Full time: FT
Contract type
- Fixed term - from Easter 2025 - Maternity or parental leave cover
Pay scale
- MPS/UPS
What skills and experience we're looking for
Essential
- Teaching Spanish or French to at least GCSE Level.
- A proven track record as a good/outstanding classroom teacher.
- A proven track record of high standards of achievement.
- The ability to use data effectively to track progress, set targets and implement appropriate intervention strategies.
- Experience as a Form Tutor.
Desirable
- Experience of teaching both Spanish and French to KS3.
- Experience of teaching within an 11-18 school.
- Experience of teaching Spanish or French at Post 16 level.
Essential
- Sound knowledge of the MFL curriculum, including curriculum changes implemented in September 2024.
- Excellent knowledge of a wide range of pedagogic approaches.
- Good understanding of the assessment processes for MFL and how to use these to support planning and raise student achievement.
- Excellent knowledge and understanding of strategies for promoting good relationships with students and effective behaviour management techniques.
- Confident use of ICT.
- A commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people.
What the school offers its staff
This post would be ideal for a suitably qualified and ambitious Early Career Teacher, who will benefit from a full induction programme.
In our most recent Ofsted inspection, in October 2021, we maintained our status as a ‘good’ school. We offer a friendly, supportive working environment, which values talented, committed staff and offers excellent professional development opportunities.
Flexible working opportunities
We are highly committed to managing teacher workload and offer a fortnightly home-based PPA session to all teaching staff.
Commitment to safeguarding
Safeguarding requirements:
Hilbre High School are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. This role has been assessed as working in regulated activity and is subject to an Enhanced DBS plus Children’s Barred List Check.
Any offer of employment will be subject to the receipt of a satisfactory Enhanced DBS disclosure with a child barred list check, receipt of references and successful completion of vetting procedures. It is an offence to apply for this role if candidates are barred from engaging in Regulated Activity relevant to children.
Applying for the job
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to schooloffice@hilbre.wirral.sch.uk
CVs are not accepted.
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About Hilbre High School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1201 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Hilbre High School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- schooloffice@hilbre.wirral.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 0151 625 5996
Hilbre is a hard-working, lively academy where we believe that learning is an enjoyable and rewarding experience for all our students. We pride ourselves in recognising the varied and individual needs of our students and the broad, balanced education we provide, both in and outside the classroom, ensures our students can leave school with the skills, knowledge and understanding necessary to contribute confidently in today’s ever changing world.
At Hilbre High School Humanities College, you will find an 11-18 academy with just over one thousand students on roll. We are an academy which genuinely welcomes people into a partnership with a shared aim; to achieve the most we possibly can, both academically and socially for our students. We believe in success, progress, challenge and the enjoyment of learning and we constantly strive to ensure that all students achieve their very best.
Indeed, our pledge is to ensure that every student, whatever their starting point, makes rapid and sustained progress through effective, high quality teaching, in order to achieve the best outcomes within a caring and supportive environment. Our academy has the advantage of being coeducational. This enables us to deliver the full range of curriculum opportunities within a more natural and rounded environment for the social development of our students.
Arranging a visit to Hilbre High School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email schooloffice@hilbre.wirral.sch.uk.
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