Curriculum Leader - Modern Foreign Languages

Cockshut Hill School provides a friendly and supportive working environment, valuing each individual. We are committed to providing our students with the best education they need to become confident, articulate and successful adults of the future. We are one of the few schools in Birmingham to receive The Rights Respecting Schools, UNICEF UK Gold Award, for successfully embedding children’s rights throughout the school in our practices and ethos. This is an exciting time for our school as we strive to improve and we are proud of our commitment to teaching and learning - our school motto is ‘Nothing But the Best’.

We are delighted to offer an opportunity to lead our MFL Department. We are seeking to appoint an excellent and experienced teacher pursuing a new challenge within an exciting, innovative and supportive school. We are looking for an inspiring teacher who is passionate about their subject and can bring languages to life, support achievement and create a nurturing environment. You will need to evidence proven success within which everyone can reach their full potential – students and staff alike.

Join us in providing leadership to our MFL department, which acknowledges the importance in enabling students to gain the currency to progress post 16 – with a strong team ethos. MFL is within the wider Globality Faculty which encompasses all the humanities and social science subjects. We believe in working collaboratively, sharing ideas and supporting each other to achieve great things as we further develop innovative teaching and learning strategies. You should be able to teach across the ability range for KS3 and KS4 Spanish and KS3 French. A real interest in developing teaching and learning is also important. We will ensure a role within our Languages team that offers you the opportunity to share excellent subject knowledge and the challenge to support all our groups of students to make outstanding progress. As appropriate to your level of experience and aspiration you will also have the opportunity to coach and mentor other staff, sharing your evidenced good practice with them.

Cockshut Hill is part of the Summit Learning Trust comprising three secondary and four primary schools. This post will offer the opportunity to work with colleagues from Ninestiles and Lyndon Schools to share practice and planning. The trusts commitment to excellence is recognised nationally and internationally and Ninestiles is a Teaching School which offers further opportunities for career development in working with other schools.

Closing Date: 25/01/2019, 12:00 noon

For an application pack and further information about all our vacancies please visit the trust website: www.ninestilesacademytrust.org.uk/category/nat-vacancies/

This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to all necessary pre-employment checks, including: an enhanced DBS; Prohibition check; Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work. All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references.

COCKSHUT HILL SCHOOL, Cockshut Hill, Birmingham, B26 2HX
Telephone Number: 0121 289 5900
Email Address: recruitment@ninestiles.org.uk