Teacher of Modern Foreign Languages

Beckfoot Oakbank, Keighley, West Yorkshire, BD22 7DU

10 days remaining to apply

Job start date
1 September 2023
Closing date
12 June 2023 at 9am
Date listed
25 May 2023

Job details

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Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4
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Working pattern: View all Full timejobs - 32.5
Contract type: Permanent
Pay scale: MPS - UPS (UP TO £5000 RECRUITMENT ALLOWANCE WILL BE CONSIDERED FOR EXCEPTIONAL APPOINTMENTS)

What skills and experience we're looking for

Are you looking for your next challenge? Do you relish the chance to work closely with great colleagues to make rapid sustained school improvement? If so, we have the perfect opportunity for you.

The languages department at Beckfoot Oakbank is positive, friendly, and supportive. We plan collaboratively to ensure the teaching and learning is cohesive and to ensure workload is managed fairly. We are influenced by the latest research in language teaching and embed this through department CPD in our planning and delivery.

Currently we teach Spanish in Y7-11 & French in Y11. French will be reintroduced for Y7 in the 2024-2025 academic year.

Languages are thriving at Beckfoot Oakbank, and our GCSE option numbers have more than doubled for September 2023. We will have 4 Y10 groups.

The post would be suitable to a teacher at any stage of their career who is enthusiastic about teaching and passionate about languages.

Our current ECT2 says “I have received excellent mentoring and support during my first two years in this challenging yet really rewarding career, not only within the lovely languages department but also as a member of the wider Beckfoot Trust family"

We are looking for someone who is visionary and ambitious, self-reflective, seeks feedback on their performance and is committed to their own development. Has the ability to motivate and inspire our students to achieve their best. An interest in a Curriculum for All, Inclusion and Vulnerable Learners. Being a team player is essential. A commitment to whole school improvement and a willingness to embrace the Trust’s values, core purpose and collaborative principles.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and we expect all staff to share this commitment. All successful staff will be requested to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service Check.

What the school offers its staff

What we offer:

Beckfoot Trust schools work in partnership with a shared ambition to provide outstanding education for our students. We highly value the need for psychological safety and belonging and we regularly train all our staff on what that means. We value authenticity and honesty and celebrate what makes individuals and organisations unique. We authentically value staff through specific praise, recognising what they do to make a difference to the lives of young people on a daily basis. We demonstrate we are morally committed to achieving true diversity throughout our whole organisation as well as believing that commonality binds us together. We find ways of reducing unnecessary workload for all and we promote wellbeing and a healthy and safe work environment in all our schools, providing access to wellness advice, lifestyle benefits and free expert and confidential counselling through our employee assistance programme. Beckfoot Trust provides clarity of expectations, always precisely modelling what we want so that there is no ambiguity and gives dedicated time to collective efficacy.