Curriculum Area Leader for Modern Foreign Languages
Selby High School
North Yorkshire
- Expired
- Salary:
- MPS/UPS + TLR 2.2 (with recruitment points available for a suitably qualified candidate)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- April, 2018 (a September start is also possible)
- Apply by:
- 8 December 2017
Job overview
Are you ready for an exciting role as leader of our successful Modern Foreign Languages team starting from April or September, 2018? Have you already made an impact within your current team, and feel ready to develop your skills further? This is a superb opportunity for an aspiring, imaginative and inspirational teacher to join an established and forward-thinking faculty where you will play a crucial role in taking the team on the next step of its journey. The successful candidate will work in a caring and energetic school where students achieve and make sustained progress as a result of our ‘can do’ ethos.
In return, we offer you the opportunity to work with our remarkable students and colleagues, where your contribution to the MFL Team, the EBacc Faculty, and the school as a whole, will be valued. Working in a friendly, aspirational school community, we invite you to join us in our commitment to inspire every student with the skills, resilience, independence and confidence they need to achieve their potential. As a leader within the school, we have an extensive CPD programme to support you in your career. We also provide all our staff with a laptop computer and tablet device.
This is a critical leadership role in a growing Modern Languages Department. We are looking to appoint an outstanding, enthusiastic, dynamic, ambitious teacher and middle leader, who possesses the ability, drive and desire to:
- lead by example in developing learning and teaching
- take a highly visible and key role within the school
- help lead, motivate and develop an effective team of language teachers
- make a difference to the life chances of all our students
- passionately buy into the school’s ‘can do’ culture
- embrace the change agenda
- engage with new technologies.
Excellent learning and teaching is at the heart of all that we do and is supported with a full professional development programme and outstanding induction programme.
Visits to the school from prospective candidates are welcome. Selby is located in picturesque North Yorkshire and benefits from good commuter links with York and Leeds.
Selby High School is an equal opportunities employer. We have a robust child protection policy and are committed to safeguarding the welfare of our children and young people.
Full details and an application pack are available from the school website: www.selbyhigh.co.uk. Visits can be organised by contacting the SLT PA, Caroline Airth on 01757 244833 or admin@selbyhigh.co.uk.
Closing date: Noon on Friday, 8th December. Applicants will be informed if they have been shortlisted by Monday, 11th December. Interviews will take place on Thursday, 14th December.
Selby High School
Leeds Road,
Selby,
North Yorkshire, YO8 4HT.
About Selby High School
On behalf of the students, governors and staff at Selby High School, we are pleased to invite you to consider the post we have on offer. As a hugely popular school, we understand the need to provide excellent provision for all the young people in our care. Our ‘can do’ ethos is supported by pursuing high academic achievements and standards and promoting self-discipline, independence and good behaviour. We hope that you will be impressed with the teaching and learning environment that has been created at Selby High School.
Our goal is success for everyone through encouragement, teamwork, friendship, trust, mutual respect and an enjoyment of learning. We aim to create an environment where we all understand that, by supporting each other and working together, we achieve more.
We are a learning community which embraces opportunities for all our learners by securing high quality learning and teaching. We aim for all our students to achieve their full potential both as students at Selby High School and as considerate global citizens of the future. We always aim to be the best we can be; nothing less will do.
We are looking for a determined professional who is enthusiastic, hardworking, conscientious and energetic. We are seeking a specialist who wants to work with our young people to ensure that, regardless of the potential barriers of gender, ethnicity and economic circumstance, they achieve to the best of their ability. In return we offer a coherent induction programme and continual professional development. Your continued professional development is important to us and we will provide you with extended opportunities for contributing towards wider school developments.
Selby High School is an extraordinary place to work. Please take a little time to look at our twitter feed https://twitter.com/SelbyHigh to see some of the opportunities offered by the school, if you have a little longer to spend, our news pages at http://www.selbyhigh.n-yorks.sch.uk/News/ give a real insight into the character of our school.
If you like what you see, would like to join our learning community, feel that you can contribute to the sustained development of Selby High School and help create an exceptional school, transforming the prospects for our students and the community at large, then please complete the application process. We welcome your interest and look forward to hearing from you!
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