Teacher of Spanish

Skinners' Kent Academy, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN2 4PY

81 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  22 April 2025

• Closing date

  21 March 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  19 December 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
  • Suitable for early career teachers
• Visa sponsorship: Skilled Worker visas can be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4
• Subjects: Languages, Spanish
• Working pattern: Full time, part time (Can be done as a job share): Monday to Friday
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: Between £31,650 to £49,084
• Additional allowances:

  TLR offered to the right candidate to oversee the Spanish Department

What skills and experience we're looking for

•Relevant first degree •Qualified teacher status •Commitment to continuing personal and professional learning •Evidence of commitment to own professional development • •Ability to create a happy, challenging and effective learning environment •Commitment to the vision and ethos of the school •A passion for the subject and knowledge and skills to inspire students •A subject specialist •A creative approach to teaching and learning to engage and further children’s interests •Commitment and ability to ensure all pupils achieve well and an interest in how students learn •Excellent inter personal skills and the ability to establish good working relationships with a wide range of people including students, parents and carers, colleagues and Governors •Ability to communicate effectively and accurately, in writing and orally •Ability to inspire, challenge and motivate others to work towards common goals •Ability to prioritise, plan and organise self and others •Energy, imagination and personal commitment •A sense of humour •Reflective and analytical •To have high expectations and aspirations of all children •Knowledge, skills and desire to want to be a tutor •To have a willingness to be involved in the wider side of school life •Commitment to the safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children •Commitment to Health and Safety, including staff wellbeing and equal opportunities •Carry out other duties that the Principal may reasonably request. • •Excellent classroom teacher, with a clear commitment to improving the quality of students’ learning •Extensive knowledge of the taught Curriculum •Experience of using a range of classroom management strategies to promote high-quality learning for all children •Use of assessment data to raise standards •Experience of successful and innovative teaching in across Years 7-13 •Excellent ICT skills •Evidence of a commitment to extended learning for students beyond the classroom. • •Flexibility to cope with diverse needs of the role •Resilience to work under pressure •Positive, personable and optimistic.

What the school offers its staff

We offer:

Valuable Pension Scheme; Cycle to Work; Kent Rewards; Referral Bonus; Free onsite Gym; Electric Vehicle Charging Stations.

Commitment to safeguarding

The Skinners’ Kent Academy Trust is an equal opportunities employer, committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Successful applicants are subject to an enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service check and satisfactory employment references.

Applying for the job

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Skilled Worker visas can be sponsored.

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About Skinners' Kent Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1036 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Skinners' Kent Academy website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: recruitment@skinnerskent.org.uk
• Phone number: 01892 534344
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/skinners-kent-academy (opens in new tab)

The Skinners’ Kent Academy is a non-fee paying, co-educational, all-ability Secondary school. The Academy is funded by the DfE and sponsored by The Skinners’ School, a grammar school for boys together with the Skinners’ Company, one of the ‘Great Twelve’ livery companies of the City of London.
The Academy is founded on the principles of a commitment to ensuring high standards and high aspirations, of active participation, an emotionally rich learning environment and an inclusive culture where every child is known and every learner supported.

Arranging a visit to Skinners' Kent Academy

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@skinnerskent.org.uk.

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