13 days remaining to apply

  • Job start date

    1 September 2025

  • Closing date

    6 February 2025 at 3pm

  • Date listed

    22 January 2025

Job details

Job role

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Key stage

Key stage 3, Key stage 4

Subject

Languages

Working pattern

Full time

Contract type

Permanent

Pay scale

Main Scale (UPS)

What skills and experience we're looking for

A good honours degree relevant to the subject

Qualified Teacher Status

Evidence of recent and relevant further professional development

A strong classroom teacher

Capacity to reflect and respond to feedback

Able to teach Spanish to GCSE level

Sound grasp of the current educational landscape

Experience of teaching MFL to a high standard

Able to engage and enthuse students

Able to plan learning effectively

Able to work collaboratively with colleagues

Confident in using data to inform decision making

Relentlessly optimistic

Loyal, enthusiastic, passionate

Willing to go the extra mile

The highest professional standards and the highest expectations of students

Ambitions for future promotion



What the school offers its staff

We want to ensure we attract the very best candidates to work here at Whitecross so that we can continue to offer our students a first class education. We seek to be an exemplary employer with the highest regard for our staff and have a comprehensive package of support in place.

All new staff are warmly welcomed into our school community and supported by a personalised induction programme tailored to individual needs. There is a programme of coaching for all teachers and our professional development package promotes peer observation and collaborative planning.

The school promotes a culture of openness and transparency and all staff are encouraged to try new things and share ideas in an atmosphere of low risk, high challenge.

Commitment to safeguarding

Whitecross is committed to safeguarding. The post involves contact with children and therefore involves regulated activity. All such posts will be subject to enhanced safeguarding checks.
The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. The school will undertake online checks of shortlisted candidates in accordance with our Privacy Notice for Applicants.

Successful candidates will be required to follow our Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy and will also be required to sign a self-disclosure statement. Our Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy can be found on our website.

Applying for the job

Apply for the job by following the link below.

CVs are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.
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If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

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If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

MFL Teacher - January 25.pdf - 1.38 MB (opens in new tab)

About Whitecross Hereford

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 16
Education phase
Secondary
School size
939 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 16
Ofsted report
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School website
Whitecross Hereford website (opens in new tab)
Email address
cmcdougall@whitecross.hereford.sch.uk
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Whitecross is an 11 to 16, mixed comprehensive academy located in beautiful surroundings on the edge of Hereford with over 945 students on
roll. As a PFI school, we relocated to our new site in 2006 and enjoy fantastic facilities.

We became a specialist sports college in 2004, something that is still very close to our hearts. The message of sporting excellence is a
universal one and the values of teamwork, leadership, hard work and sacrifice lie at the heart of our identity.

This is a school with kindness and compassion at its core where thinking of others is a real strength. It is a place where students take part in an
incredible range of additional experiences outside the classroom, expanding their horizons and enriching their lives and where all students
regardless of starting point or background can excel

Every adult at Whitecross is committed to the following principles.

They form our DNA – the heart of who we are:
⬧ Outstanding learning for all
⬧ We are role models living our values
⬧ The highest standards everywhere

Therefore we:
⬧ Believe everyone belongs and everyone matters
⬧ Know good relationships focussed on learning are vital to success
⬧ Actively inspire and enthuse young people
⬧ Believe every lesson and every moment at school matters
⬧ Believe in overcoming barriers not making excuses
⬧ Embrace feedback and value practice in the pursuit of excellence

So that our students:
⬧ Feel they belong and are safe
⬧ Believe that by working hard they will improve
⬧ Are motivated to achieve great things
⬧ Recognise and realise their potential
⬧ Care about the people around them
⬧ Have outstanding levels of literacy and numeracy
⬧ Make exceptional progress

Arranging a visit to Whitecross Hereford

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email cmcdougall@whitecross.hereford.sch.uk.

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