Lead Learner / Practitioner Modern Foreign Languages (French and Spanish)

Contract type: Permanent

Location: Werneth School, Harrytown Romiley, Stockport, SK6 3BX

Required from: September 2024 (or before if possible)

Salary:  TLR1A plus recruitment and retention allowance for an exceptional candidate 

Closing date: 15th April 2024

Interview date:  18th April 2024.

Werneth School is seeking to appoint a highly motivated, innovative subject leader for our modern foreign languages department.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a forward-thinking school at a new stage of development. The successful candidate will be an outstanding practitioner and communicator who is able to inspire students to achieve the highest outcomes. 

Our offer to you:

• A vibrant and supportive staff body who are proud of their school
• A welcoming school environment with excellent resources and facilities.
• A focus across the school on developing a dynamic curriculum.
• Excellent CPD and support
• A headteacher and SLT who are committed to continual improvement, innovation and creative thinking.
• A school with an ethos of inclusion and a commitment to know our children well
• A supportive Multi Academy Trust with a firm focus on collaborative learning, supporting school development and sharing good practice across schools in the Trust.
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OUR LANGUAGES DEPARTMENT

• Housed on the middle floor of our building in a suite of classrooms with modern equipment and a central resource area for teachers.
• GCSE French and Spanish offered to all students
• A need for a fresh impetus and direction for the department with new ideas.
• If you have a passion for languages, and a desire to inspire our students, we look forward to receiving your application.  

Education Learning Trust is a Multi-Academy Trust, educating over 3500 pupils from age 2 to 16 in the Greater Manchester area. The Trust is proud of its inclusive ethos to Collaborate, Empower and Achieve and provides its employees with an inspiring and innovative place to work, with exceptional training and development opportunities.  

As a Trust employee, you will receive excellent benefits, including a highly competitive salary, well-regarded pension scheme, excellent career development opportunities and support for your health and wellbeing, with our award-winning employee assistance programme. 

Our vision at ELT is to create an exceptional learning journey for all, by providing:

• exciting, innovative and challenging learning communities
• school improvement strategies arising from evidenced based research and professional enquiry
• opportunities for professional development and leadership
• a celebration of the diversity and uniqueness of individual settings 
• Innovation in practice by recognising the value of learning partnerships, both locally and nationally 

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

We ensure that we have a range of policies and procedures that promote safeguarding and safer working practices. This is in line with statutory guidance including Keeping Children Safe in Education and The Education Act 2002. 

• All offers of employment are subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records, online checks and vetting checks.  
• It is an offence to apply for a role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. 

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020). This means that certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’ and do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974.’ 

We are committed to fulfilling our Equality Duty obligations, including valuing equality and diversity and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.  

We are committed to employment practices that promote diversity and inclusion in employment regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, sex, marriage and civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity status, race, religion or belief. 

We expect the successful candidate to have the necessary standard of spoken English, as described under Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016, the Public Sector fluency duty that requires state funded schools to ensure candidates for their customer facing roles have the necessary standard of spoken English (or English or Welsh in Wales).

Candidates should apply by completing the ELT application form. Please note that CVs alone will not be accepted in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE).

Please return applications to recruitment@wernethschool.com for the attention of Cath Humphreys (Head’s PA).