Teacher of Modern Foreign Languages (French)
Northallerton School & Sixth Form College, Northallerton, DL6 1ED19 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2025 or earlier if possible
Closing date
24 February 2025 at 9am
Date listed
23 January 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subject
- Modern Languages
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Salary based on MPS/UPS dependent upon qualifications and experience
Teacher of Modern Foreign Languages (French) job summary
To promote effective learning, appropriate achievement and educational, social and personal progress of all students for whom the teacher is designated as being responsible, consistent with the aims of the school and the unique needs of each individual.
Job Details
Hours of Work: 1.0 FTE
Position Type: Permanent
Line Manager: Head of MFL
Travel Required: No
The salary is dependent on current qualifications and experience, please see the attached job description for more information.
We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and committed Teacher of French to work full time in a successful MFL team whose focus is to inspire young people to be the best they can be. The successful candidate should be able to teach French at KS3 and KS4. The ability to teach Spanish at KS3 would be desirable but not essential.
In January 2022 our school was judged to be Good in all areas in our most recent Ofsted inspection. We are an ambitious school and are passionate about the education of our students, continuous professional development of all staff and developing our strong partnership with parents and the wider community.
We are looking to develop our provision and this is a fantastic opportunity for a keen MFL teacher to join our school community and contribute to it as both a teacher and wider member of the school.
Information about the MFL Faculty
The team
The MFL faculty at Northallerton School & Sixth Form College is staffed by four specialist teachers with a range of backgrounds and expertise. There is a head of faculty as well as several other experienced teachers. We are a very loyal and supportive department, committed to team-work, with shared strategic planning, policy-making and core programmes of study. High priority is given to writing and sharing our own resources. We pride ourselves on good student-teacher relationships and have high expectations of all our students.
Facilities
In September 2021, the school moved to a new site within Northallerton. The site provides state of the art learning facilities including an enhanced digital learning environment, new and fully refurbished teaching spaces, large open plan learning resource centre and a newly built sixth form centre for our rapidly expanding sixth form.
Key Stage 3/ Key Stage 4/ GCSE
Teaching at pre-16 is in mixed-ability classes and all GCSE students follow the AQA Specification for French and Spanish with students sitting their exams at the end of Year 11.
Extra-curricular activities
There is a strong tradition in organising educational language trips at the school. The faculty organises trips to France and Spain whenever relevant and available. We also run an MFL film club and homework club. There are also opportunities for students to get involved as subject mentors, reader leaders and in other volunteer roles.
The faculty has developed strong links and working relationships with other schools from the Trust.
For an informal chat about the role please contact the Head of MFL, Mrs M Winn, on mwinn@northallerton-alt.uk.
About the Trust
Areté Learning Trust currently has 11 schools and educates over 7,000 young people in and around North Yorkshire from ages 2-18. Our learners are at the heart of everything we do.
At Areté Learning Trust we work together and collaborate to ensure that all of our learners and our staff team have the chance to reach their potential.
Our Trust is committed to promoting:
- Health, happiness and wellbeing
- A safe, disciplined and supportive environment
- A love of learning through a passionate and committed approach
- High standards and expectations
- Integrity, kindness and good manners
- Respect for individuality and difference
- Collaborative working to secure excellence
To realise our aspiration for every child to be the best they can be, we need to ensure that as a Trust we are ‘Striving for Excellence’.
Why wok for us?
We want everyone who works within ALT to feel valued and see how their work fits into the bigger picture.
We seek employees who are prepared to take personal responsibility and constantly challenge the norm to improve performance.
In return, we are committed to providing an empowering and supportive learning environment for all staff.
Areté Learning Trust is committed to being the ‘Employer of Choice’.
Essentially this means that we want our schools and our central team to be great places to work. We want our staff development opportunities to be first class and we want to enable staff who are ambitious to grow their careers with us. To give our learners the best education and opportunities we are committed to recruiting and retaining the very best people in all areas of our organisation.
Regardless of role, we seek staff who:
- Have high expectations of themselves and the people they work with.
- Are committed to our Trust values.
- Show initiative and are responsive to change.
- Have strong interpersonal skills with the ability to inspire and motivate others.
- Are creative in their approach to problem solving.
- Are able to influence effectively, whatever their role.
- Are team players.
We welcome applications from all backgrounds; for more information, please refer to our recruitment and selection policy statement (https://www.arete.uk/careers). If you are ready for the next step in your career and you feel that your skill set makes you a good fit for this very exciting opportunity, then we look forward to receiving your application.
Application Process
Please complete the online application form to apply for this role. All candidates are advised to refer to the job description and person specification before making an application. You should use the information supplied with in the Job Description & Person Specification to make the best of your application by identifying some specific pieces of work you may have undertaken in any of these areas. Your application may be viewed in regard to some or all of the skill specific areas over the course of the selection process. Applications via agencies will not be considered.
Interviews will take place as soon as possible after the closing date.
The Areté Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and protecting our children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts are subject to a safer recruitment process which includes enhanced criminal records and barring checks, scrutiny of employment history, robust referencing and other vetting checks. Online searches may be done as part of due diligence checks.
Our safeguarding system is underpinned by a range of policies and procedures which encourage and promote safe working practice across the Trust. On joining you will be required to undergo continuous professional development to maintain safe working practice and to safeguard our children and young people.
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 are not accepted.
About Northallerton School & Sixth Form College
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1079 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
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School location
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