Language Assistant

The Role

Start Date: September 2020

Duration: Permanent

Disclosure Level: Enhanced

Reporting to: Head of Modern Foreign Languages

Hours: Part time, 11 hours per week, 30 weeks of the year 

Salary: £6,660 per annum (inclusive of holiday entitlement)

Wellingborough School is looking to appoint Language Assistant.

The candidate will be a fluent French and/or Spanish speaker, excellent communicator and team player. He / She should be committed to helping pupils to develop their oral fluency throughout the school and be prepared to support native and non-native students of French in their preparation for the oral part of public examinations (IGCSE, GCSE and A level).

Main Responsibilities

To assist with the teaching of Modern Foreign Languages throughout the

school, and to give conversation lessons to individual students or small

groups of students, as indicated by the subject teacher or the Head of Modern Languages.

Specific Responsibilities

• To have a clear understanding of the requirements of each speaking examination, with appropriate guidance from the Head of Department.

• To promote the study of languages amongst students at all levels.

• To teach up to 11 periods a week (although the precise number of lessons

taught will vary according to the number of students studying the language

at AS and A2 level).

• To help native speakers of French to prepare for public examinations (IGCSE, GCSE and A level).

• To aid in exam marking at exam time.

• To keep records of each student’s progress in conversation lessons.

• To correct any work that has been produced during, or as a follow up to a conversation lessons.

• To provide extra support for students who might be struggling as directed by the Subject teacher and / or the Head of Department.

• To conduct individual speaking tests with students if requested to do so.

• To feed into the reporting process by providing comments of pupils’ progress, attitude and effort.

• To assist the subject teachers in the running of a language activity.

• To assist subject teachers in producing and maintaining classroom

displays to reflect the nature of the subject.

• To attend departmental meetings when requested by the Head of Department.

• To assist with the preparation of resource material, as indicated by the subject teacher.

• To accompany language teachers on visits if requested.

Further details and application form may be downloaded from our website http://www.wellingboroughschool.org/who-we-are/vacancies

Please can interested applicants complete the application form and return it, along with a covering letter, to Lulu Corrigan, HR Manager, Wellingborough School, London Road, Wellingborough. NN8 2BX Applications by email are welcome and should be sent to recruitment@ wellingboroughschool.org

(Other forms of applications will not be accepted)

Closing date for the receipt of applications: by 12 noon, Thursday 11th June 2020.

Interviews will take place on w/c 15th June 2020.