Teacher of MFL (Spanish and French)

Teacher of MFL (Spanish & French)

Contract type: Fixed Term one year in the first instance, Full Time.

Location: The Kingsway School, Foxland Road, Gatley, Cheadle Cheshire, SK8 4QX

Required from: September 2023

Salary: Main Scale (applications from NQTs and experienced candidates welcome)

Closing date : 9am Fri 9th June 2023

Interview date : TBC

We will be reviewing applications on an on-going basis and this advert may close earlier

than advertised depending on the level of response.

An exciting opportunity has arisen at The Kingsway School for a teacher of Spanish & French to join an excellent team of highly dedicated professionals in a leading department within the school. The Languages department has successfully achieved consistently high outcomes for our students, with approximately 30% of students gaining grade 7-9 and 80-90% of students gaining grade 4-9 across French, Spanish and German. We are looking to appoint a passionate, dynamic and committed member of staff to join our team in teaching both KS3 and KS4, teaching both French and Spanish to ensure our students achieve the highest levels and their full potential. An ideal candidate will have a strong enthusiasm for languages and be able to transmit this to their pupils, and a desire to contribute to the wealth of opportunities beyond the classroom, including trips abroad. We are a highly supportive department and we welcome applications from ECTs or experienced teachers. ECTs will be supported through our excellent ECT programme with fully trained ECT mentors in the department.

Education Learning Trust is a Multi-Academy Trust, educating over 3500 pupils from age 2 to 16 in the Greater Manchester area. We are very proud of our inclusive ethos to Collaborate, Empower and Achieve and provide over 450 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.

Education Learning Trust. Registered address: Hawthorn Road, Gatley, Cheadle, Cheshire, SK8 4NB. A charitable company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales (company number: 09142319)

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.

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, CVs alone will not be accepted in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE).

Please return applications to recruitment@kingsway.stockport.sch.uk for the attention of Phil Traynor, Head of Department.

If you would value an informal discussion about the post, please contact Phil Traynor, Head of Department, p.traynor@kingsway.stockport.sch.uk.