Trust Strategic Lead for MFL
Outwood Grange Academies Trust, Wakefield, WF1 2PF8 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 January 2027
Closing date
6 October 2026 at 9am
Date listed
28 September 2026
Job details
Job role
- Other leadership role
Visa sponsorship
- Skilled Worker visas can be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 32.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday.
Contract type
- Permanent
Full time equivalent salary
- £79,460 - £87,664
What skills and experience we're looking for
Trust Strategic Subject Lead for MFL
Salary: L17 - L21
Location: Across the Outwood Grange Family of Schools
Are you ready to turn your best into normal?
At the Outwood Family of Schools, we don't just teach, we transform lives. We are looking for a visionary, high-calibre leader to join us as the Trust Strategic Subject Lead for Modern Foreign Languages.
The Role
In this strategic position, you will be the driving force behind the quality of Modern Foreign Languages and achievement across our academies. You will work alongside our Executive Principal Secondary Strategy and other subject Trust Strategic Leads to define what "exceptional" looks like in Modern Foreign Languages, ensuring our curriculum is rigorous, engaging, and life-enhancing.
Beyond the curriculum, you will lead our Trust wide Modern Foreign Languages strategy to break down barriers to language learning, raising aspirations and opening doors for every student. You will ensure our young people build confidence, cultural awareness, and strong communication skills.
Why Outwood?
We are a family that believes in Ambition without limit. We invest heavily in our people, and as a Trust Strategic Lead, you will have a unique platform to shape the professional development of Modern Foreign Languages teachers across the region.
You will be part of a culture that identifies and nurtures internal expertise, ensuring that our best practice becomes the standard in every one of our schools.
About You
You are an Modern Foreign Languages specialist with a proven track record of impact. You possess the strategic mindset to lead curriculum reform and the interpersonal skills to mentor staff at all levels. Whether you are advising on recruitment or leading Trust-wide CPD, you will be an ambassador for our "Students First" ethos.
About Our Team
The successful colleague will join a brilliant team of Curriculum Trust Strategic Leads who have strategic oversight of our subject curriculum areas. This team is line-managed by the Executive Principal for Secondary Strategy, Cara Ackroyd.
Join us and help us ensure that every interaction counts.
What the school offers its staff
What will we do for you?
- A competitive salary with pay progression
- A fantastic pension and additional benefits
- Flexible family friendly policies from day one
- Wellbeing strategy and Employee Assistance Programme
- Our Workload Charter with guaranteed CPD every week and much more (for teaching roles)
Further information on employee benefits can be found here.
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
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
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About Outwood Grange Academies Trust
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
- Email address
- c.ackroyd@outwood.com
We are an award-winning multi-academy education trust with passion, purpose and people at our heart. We manage 41 transformative primary, junior, secondary and Post 16 schools up and down the North of England, from Redcar to Nottinghamshire, each celebrating very different identities but driven by a shared vision. Each academy is individually shaped around the community and children it serves.
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