Teacher of Modern Foreign Languages
Beths Grammar School, Bexley, Kent, DA5 1NE29 days remaining to apply
Start date details
January 2026
Closing date
14 November 2025 at 9am
Date listed
16 October 2025
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subject
- Languages
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £37,870.00 - £56,154.00 Annually (Actual) MPS/UPS Outer London
Teacher of Modern Foreign Languages job summary
Beths Grammar School is a large multi-cultural school on the borders between London and Kent serving a wide range of vibrant and exciting communities. We specialise in boys' education in the main school and have a large, co-educational 6th form.
The department offers all students the opportunity to study French, Spanish, German, Italian and Chinese Mandarin at various stages of their time at Beths. The current arrangement for languages in Year 7 is for all students to study French, Spanish or Chinese as their main language. In Year 8, they choose, as their second language, one of Chinese, German, Italian, French, Latin or Spanish. All six languages are offered through to GCSE and A Level and it is the school’s expectation for all students to study a minimum of one language to GCSE. The department subscribes to the AQA GCSE specification in all language subjects. The department offers A-Level Specification in French, Spanish, German and Mandarin Chinese.
The department currently offers a wide variety of enrichment opportunities including trips abroad: KS4 and KS5 trip to Andalucía, KS3 and KS4 trips to Cologne and Naples and KS3/4/5 Trip to Paris and Year 9 trip to China through the MEP Programme. Other activities include a strong ‘Supercurriculum’ offering in all Key Stages, a Language and Culture Week, clubs and cultural sessions, intensive language days and cinema study days at the BFI in London.
The successful applicant will continue to build on the school’s successes in raising the profile of MFL in the school. The successful applicant will become part of a highly supportive and committed team of professionals and will have every opportunity for further career development. This exciting post offers the chance to promote languages and lead on projects as well as organise enrichment opportunities related to the subject. It is essential that the applicant can teach French up to A Level and German or Spanish, Italian or Mandarin Chinese preferably to GCSE. The position is open to experienced teachers as well as ECTs for a January 2026 start. For more information about the role, please see the recruitment pack.
Salary - Teacher of MFL
The post is offered on the Teachers MPS/UPS Outer London.
Why Join the Beths Community
All staff receive their own laptop
We have a brand new Sixth Form Centre equipped with the latest technology for Teaching and Learning.
CPD programme for staff development
24/7 Employee Wellbeing Support Programmer (free & confidential)
Teacher’s Pension Scheme
Cycle to work scheme
Use of School gym
Staff social events
Appointment Process
Applications should reach the school by 9am 14th November 2025. We prefer electronic submissions and application forms can be found on the school website, no CVs please.
We intend to interview w/c 17th November 2025. Please note that we reserve the right to close any advert before the advertised closing date should a sufficient response have been received. Therefore, please ensure that you complete your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
We at Beths Grammar School are committed to practice which protects children from harm. Safeguarding and the promotion of a child’s welfare covers all aspects of the child’s life and Beths Grammar School is committed to ensuring that all its actions in respect for a child are compatible with this aim.
All positions are subject to a DBS enhanced disclosure check.
Applicants must complete the school application form and in line with ‘keeping children safe in education’ and safer recruitment practices, the school will conduct an online search for all shortlisted candidates. All shortlisted applicants will be required to complete a Self-Disclosure form prior to interview and the school will conduct an online search.
Further information about the job
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
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Beths Grammar School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1664 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Beths Grammar School website
Set in acres of pleasant grounds, Beths Grammar School is located within easy commuting distance of both central London and Kent, offering the advantages of a diverse and forward-thinking community within a haven of green space. The mainline railway station is less than ten minutes’ walk away; while for road users, there is a junction on the A2 close by (two of the three school fields run alongside the A2). Many staff choose to live close to the school, or in neighbouring boroughs, and the borough of Bexley has a wealth of high performing schools
and good quality housing stock at competitive prices.
Beths is an academic institution that fosters an ethos in which working hard and wanting to achieve are the norm:
where it’s cool to be clever and successful. This is as true for the staff as for the students. We are ambitious for the young people in our care and seek to help them secure the very best outcomes of which they are capable.
As a selective school, the staff have the privilege of educating and working with intellectually able young people;
and the students have the privilege of being in an environment in which progress in learning can be rapid, and
subjects explored in real depth.
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