Teacher of Spanish
Sir Graham Balfour High School
Staffordshire
- £30,000 - £46,525 per year
- Expired
- Job type:
- Full Time, Fixed Term
- Start date:
- September 2024
- Apply by:
- 22 May 2024
Job overview
Full time, one-year fixed term contract (Maternity Cover)
Sir Graham Balfour Main Scale (£30,000 - £46,525)
Required from September 2024
We are seeking to appoint a dynamic Teacher of Spanish to join the MFL Faculty. Working within our strong, supportive and experienced team of MFL staff, the successful candidate will have a firm commitment to raising whole-school achievement; have a professional approach to staff development; high expectations; and a determination to succeed. The successful applicant will have the ability to successfully and effectively teach Spanish in Key Stages 3 and 4.
The faculty is at an exciting point in its development and enjoying considerable success in public exams at all levels. We are looking to appoint a forward thinking, inspirational professional to help lead the faculty through the next exciting phase of its development.
At Sir Graham Balfour we offer:
- A well-motivated staff, who embrace willingly a culture of professional development.
- Investment into extra non-contact time for all teachers to support the planning, preparation and assessment of lessons.
- An ever-growing reputation in the local community which has resulted in the school being consistently oversubscribed in an area where student rolls are falling.
- A very positive climate for learning.
- A first-rate learning environment. We are housed in buildings completed in 2002 and financed via a PFI initiative.
- Innovative 14-19 collaboration and an increasing roll at KS5.
- A commitment to best practice in all we do.
Please note:
- All applicants will be submitted for an enhanced DBS check.
- Applications will only be accepted if submitted on the enclosed formal application form.
- Two references will be required, one of which must be from your most recent employer. In the case of teachers, one reference must come from your most recent headteacher.
- Once a written reference has been received, we will contact the referee by telephone to confirm the provenance of that reference.
- If shortlisted, online searches will be carried out, in order to help identify any incidents or issues that have happened and are publicly available online, which the school might want to explore with the applicant at interview.
- If shortlisted, we will request a portrait photo of you to attach to your file and to help confirm your identity.
- If appointed, the successful applicant will be informed that the appointment is subject to satisfactory completion of the following checks: the right to work in the UK, qualifications requirements, satisfactory DBS Enhanced Disclosure, the Criminal Record Self-Declaration Form, teacher prohibition and barred list checks, pre-employment medical screening and satisfactory references (if not already received).
Visits to the school are strongly recommended and can be arranged by contacting Mrs Vicki McKeen (details below).
For an application pack, please access our website,
www.sirgrahambalfour.co.uk or contact Mrs Vicki McKeen, Headteacher’s PA, on
vmckeen@sirgrahambalfour.staffs.sch.uk or telephone 01785 223490. The closing date for applications is: 1.30pm, Wednesday 22nd May 2024.
Please return completed applications to vmckeen@sirgrahambalfour.staffs.sch.uk
Shortlisting for this post will take place on Wednesday 22nd May 2024 and successful applicants will be contacted no later than 5pm on the same day. If you have not heard from us by this time, please assume you have not been successful on this occasion.
Interviews will take place on Friday 24th May 2024. They will include a tour around the school, meetings with the Faculty, delivery of a lesson and interviews for the short-listed candidates. Further details of the lesson will be sent out to the successful candidates.
Attached documents
About Sir Graham Balfour High School
- Sir Graham Balfour High School
- North Avenue, Stafford
- Staffordshire
- ST16 1NR
- United Kingdom
Welcome to Sir Graham Balfour School which OFSTED in May 2019 found to be a ‘Good’ school. I hope you find the information it contains useful and informative.
Our vision is summed up in our mission statement –
‘Learning, Working and Succeeding Together’
For us, the ‘together’ is absolutely critical; collaboration, cooperation and teamwork are essential for developing the skills, knowledge and confidence necessary for academic and personal excellence. As well as the drive to achieve academically, the ability to self-regulate, to communicate clearly with others, to know and be proud of who you are, to be compassionate to others and to be ambitious for yourself and others are equally important.
We passionately believe that the circumstances of birth or upbringing should not be the key determining factors to success in life and we are relentless in our ambition for ALL children to achieve as well as possible at Sir Graham Balfour School, regardless of their sexual orientation, socio-economic, ethnic, religious or gender status.
Our Values
Our aim as a school, working alongside parents and our community, is to help students to become outstanding
and effective citizens; to make responsible, appropriate and healthy choices in all things. Staff and parents will not always be there, at the point where critical decisions need to be made. This is why we are committed to values based learning; rules prescribe a set of appropriate/inappropriate behaviours (e.g. don’t run in the corridors) which are specific to given contexts, whereas values provide a set of aspirational guidelines within which children must choose the right behaviour or action for the vast array of contexts they will be faced with in life (e.g. how do I need to move around the school if I am taking responsibility for myself and others?).
These are the values which we believe will help our students to become excellent citizens of Stafford and beyond:
- Commitment to excellence
- Responsibility for ourselves and others
- Care for the local and wider Community
- Respect, Kindness and Compassion for ourselves and others
- Perseverance and resilience
- Ambition for ourselves and others
- Pride in working hard and the success it brings
Our values drive and shape every aspect of school life, taking the place of school rules. They seek to reinforce the development of the whole person, in addition to the academic. They are values which will, if routinely exemplified and embedded, give our young people all the skills and characteristics necessary to become outstanding citizens of the future.
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