Teacher of Spanish
The Bishop of Winchester Academy, Bournemouth, Dorset, BH8 9PW15 days remaining to apply
Closing date
9 March 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
20 February 2025
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subject
- Modern Languages
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Mainscale / UPS
Teacher of Spanish job summary
This will be an exciting opportunity to join a strong, stable and inspirational MFL team with passionate leadership. Whatever your career stage you will be supported to develop further language knowledge and to enhance your teaching tool kit so that our students are able to confidently read, write and communicate in the Spanish language. We welcome applications from all teachers including ECTs.
Our Head of MFL would be delighted to take you on a tour of the school and give you the opportunity to meet the department and answer any questions you may have.
The Bishop of Winchester Academy is a thriving Church of England school, recently recognised by Ofsted as prioritising ‘wider opportunities alongside achievement so that pupils “live life to the full.”’ (Ofsted 2023). Our shared mission to improve the life chances of all of our students is at the very centre of our work.
As Teacher of Spanish, you will join an established and strong team to:
Play a fundamental role in helping to move the MFL department to the next stage in its development
Plan and deliver high quality and engaging lessons that will challenge students and inspire progression
Encourage students to have high expectations of themselves and their behaviour
Be able to teach GCSE
Be a positive role model and supportive mentor to students
The post offers ample opportunities for an ambitious teacher to develop their skills further, in addition to:
A bespoke CPD programme including training and in department development time with a generous number of INSET days.
Excellent teaching facilities including interactive smart boards and a newly refurbished library equipped with thousands of resources.
A robust behaviour system allowing teaching staff to deliver high quality learning opportunities to students
School site in close proximity to beaches and the Jurassic Coast.
Staff wellbeing a priority with an early finish on a Friday.
The Bishop of Winchester Academy is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all suitably qualified candidates. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS check is required for all successful applicants. Please be aware that due to the ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ legislation we do not accept CV’s. We reserve the right to close a vacancy earlier than the advertised date if we have received applications that meet the criteria.
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 The Bishop of Winchester Academy
- School type
- Academy, Church of England, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1148 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
The Bishop of Winchester Academy is a thriving Church of England school, commended by Ofsted for its ‘inclusive approach, which seeks to support all pupils’. Led by a dedicated team with ‘strong moral and ethical foundation[s]’, our shared mission for ‘improving the life chances of all [our] pupils is at the very centre of [our] work’ (Ofsted, 2017).
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