Head of MFL - French/Spanish
The Westwood Academy
Coventry
- £30,000 - £46,525 per year
- Expired
- Salary:
- MPS/UPS TLR 1a
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2024
- Apply by:
- 8 April 2024
Job overview
The Trust
Kenilworth Multi Academy Trust has a vacancy for a Head of MFL from September 2024. The vacancy is based at The Westwood Academy.
We are looking to appoint, an enthusiastic, creative and innovative Head of MFL into a continuously popular, highly successful and ambitious department. As a rapidly growing school this is an excellent opportunity to gain a full-time permanent post for the academic year 2024/2025. We are looking for teachers with a love of their subject, ambition and the ability to engage young people in learning. We provide a unique environment in which both teachers and pupils thrive.
The Westwood Academy is part of the Kenilworth Multi-Academy Trust a forward thinking and ambitious trust. We offer a motivating learning environment with an excellent shared CPD programme. We are proud of our academic record and of our pastoral care, which maintains a feeling of community in a small, but rapidly growing school.
The school works tirelessly to ensure that every pupil’s potential is successfully achieved, through excellent teaching, the establishment of positive learning relationships, effective assessment and constructive feedback.
The Department and Role
We encourage all potential candidates to come and visit the school and meet the staff and pupils to fully appreciate our wonderful community. As a Head of MFL you will join a focused, forward-thinking department. We are looking for someone who is able to apply energy and enthusiasm to their work and the department.
We are looking for a talented, innovative leader with a proven track record of effective teaching to deliver against high standards across all key stages. The ability to teach Spanish/French is required and another language to KS4 would be advantageous.
You will have strong leadership skills to manage a team and have a clear vision for the planning and implementation of MFL in the school curriculum. The role will include the line management of subject leaders within the department.
You must possess the skills and determination to make a significant difference to the lives of all of our students at The Westwood Academy.
Role Requirements:
· Qualified Teacher Status or ECT with recent UK classroom experience essential gained during training
· Up to date knowledge of your specialist area for years 7 – 11
· Dedicated, creative and hardworking individual
· A real willingness to learn new skills
· Employees benefit from an extensive and bespoke CPD programme and enrolment in our Benenden Health Scheme is available for all employees from the commencement of employment
You are most welcome to visit the school to meet our staff and pupils. If you would like to discuss this opportunity further, please contact the Head of School.
We can offer you:
· Excellent CPD opportunities
· A supportive team of colleagues within the department and across the school
· A positive, community school environment with an innovative learning culture
· A dedicated and forward-looking management team, with highly skilled staff upholding high expectations and aspirations for our students
· Shared on-line resources to support the development of student learning
· A wide enrichment programme in which you can participate
· Employee well-being benefits via our healthcare provider to include physiotherapy, health diagnostics, 24/7 access to a GP and mental health support, medical diagnostics and high street retail discounts on-site free flu vaccinations, and a laptop. Free parking is available on site.
Attached documents
About The Westwood Academy
- The Westwood Academy
- Mitchell Avenue, Canley, Coventry
- West Midlands
- CV4 8DY
- United Kingdom
A message from Helen Lawrence, Head Teacher.
We offer a warm welcome to our school where we provide a superb academic environment that creates a love of learning. This is underpinned by an imaginative and innovative curriculum and our high quality subject teaching. We have a clear vision and values which define our core and fundamental relationships between staff, pupils, parents and our wider community. This is further inspired by our strong central educational values and our desire and determination to succeed in our aspirations and for every individual to be exceptional. We invite you to join us and become part of this community.
As a partner school of the Kenilworth Multi Academy Trust we share a unique identity and a commitment to inclusive practice which runs through both schools. Each school has its individual strengths and draws on the expertise of the collective provision of the MAT. We broaden horizons for our young people and embrace diversity by enabling them to work in partnership with others, across a wider socio-economic and ethnic profile beyond their base school. They participate in enrichment activities within the KMAT, for example, educational visits, regional and international competitions, music or sports tournaments, joint student councils and learning ambassador schemes. We add value to the lives of our young people through an excellent all round education that extends beyond the classroom and engages the communities in which our schools are located: the town of Kenilworth and South West of the City of Coventry.
We are united in our commitment to narrowing gaps in educational attainment between the most advantaged and disadvantaged young people through a curriculum that is adapted to their needs. Our education stimulates a passion for independent learning and the development of broader life skills, such as reasoning, reflection, and team work. The curriculum intent in each of our schools allows for flexibility to adapt provision to meet the needs of its learners, we emphasise the importance of a broad education that is more ambitious than the national curriculum, developing cultural capital and knowledge beyond that which can be examined. The curriculum of our schools prioritises the interrelationship between learning that engages young people, the development of character, healthy minds and the balance between academic study and the pursuit of wider non-academic interests.
The school works tirelessly to ensure that every pupil’s potential is successfully achieved, through excellent teaching, the establishment of positive learning relationships, effective assessment and constructive feedback.
We encourage all potential candidates to come, visit our school, and meet the staff and pupils to fully appreciate our wonderful community. Please take a look at our Twitter feed - @academywestwood as this will give you a real insight into our school, pupils and staff
Role Requirements for Teaching Vacancies:
• Qualified Teacher Status or NQT with recent UK classroom experience essential
• Up to date knowledge of the current curriculum pertinent to the subject vacancy at secondary level or willingness to train
• Dedicated, creative and hardworking individual
Employees benefit from an extensive and bespoke CPD programme.
The link to the recruitment section of our school website is;
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