Curriculum Team Leader for Modern Foreign Languages

Curriculum Team Leader for Modern Foreign Languages

Full time (32.5 hours per week), Permanent

MPS/UPS + TLR 1b (£31,650-£49,084 + £12,038)

Required From: January 2025

We are seeking to appoint an outstanding teacher to lead our modern foreign languages team. The successful candidate must be able to teach French and Spanish at KS3 and either French or Spanish at KS4 and 5. Curriculum Team Leaders are celebrated at Heanor Gate for their work ethic, visibility and being able to adapt to the ever-changing educational environment. We are in search of an individual who can lead a highly successful and motivated faculty with a variety of experiences and who has a keen eye for research and the latest pedagogical advances. The faculty have worked collaboratively to create a broad and balanced curriculum which excites its learners. An incredibly high performing faculty, the uptake at GCSE of French and Spanish has been excellent, with exceptional GCSE outcomes achieved for a number of years. The summer 2023 GCSE outcomes placed the subject in FFT5 for outcomes and progress at nearly all measures across both Spanish and French, and provisional summer 2024 outcomes replicate this picture. The person we are looking for must fit well within the CTL team, as well as being an inspirational leader to a high performing MFL faculty.  

We offer a supportive learning and working environment, allowing all students to make good progress and teachers to continuously develop. In support of this, the successful candidate must also be able demonstrate innovation in their field, as well as the ability to work towards whole-school priorities and initiatives.  You will be joining a rapidly developing and forward-thinking team of staff across the school that are committed to continuous improvement.

Heanor Gate Spencer Academy is an ‘Outstanding’ secondary school and sixth form (Ofsted, June 2023) which is oversubscribed in Year 7 for the second successive year. We are extremely proud of our inspection report which is a testament to 7 years of school improvement. It states that ”teachers are subject experts”, “pupils are ambitious about their future”, “classrooms are calm places, where pupils focus on their learning” and “leaders are relentless in their desire to provide the absolute best education for all pupils and to serve the local community”. 

Read more about our Outstanding Ofsted report here: http://heanorgatespencer.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/10268033-Heanor-Gate-Spencer-Academy-137606-Final.pdf

Spencer Academies Trust is an educational charity, Multi-Academy Trust and Sponsor of Academies. We have approaching 18000 children and young people in our academies and employ more than 2200 teachers, leaders and educational support professionals across the East Midlands. We aspire to be a leading regional high performing Trust, with a national reputation for excellence. 

We currently have 17 primary academies, 8 secondary academies and one primary aged special school in our family of schools. All of our schools benefit from the collaboration and added value that being a member of our Trust offers, and share our values and beliefs. Spencer Trust academies share an ambition to deliver results that compete with the very highest performing schools in the country, and deliver a curriculum for students that is underpinned by breadth, opportunity and quality: one that seeks to give young people the opportunity to develop into well rounded global citizens that believe they can influence positive change in the world.

Mission: Our Mission is to deliver the best possible outcomes for children and young people.

Vision: Spencer Academies Trust is an exceptional Trust, providing an outstanding education for local children.

We Believe: 

• All children have a right to a quality education regardless of background or ability, and have an entitlement to the opportunity of a secure progression route in their learning and development. 
• Schools are stronger when they work in collaboration with each other, operate within a ‘family’ and are open to a true sense of partnership. 
• We grow the effectiveness and sustainability of our schools by developing the people within them, and that through shared and equitable responsibility for quality and outcomes; we achieve more.

Applicants would be expected to share the Trust’s high aspirations and expectations for pupils and staff.

If you would like to discuss the role, or have any queries, please contact our Vice Principal, Andy Stanley on 01773716396 or astanley@heanorgatespencer.org.uk

We offer a comprehensive range of employee benefits, please visit:  http://satrust.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/SAT-Employee-Benefits-September-2022.pdf  

The Spencer Academies Trust Safer recruitment policy requires applications for this post must be submitted through our recruitment portal. CVs cannot be accepted. We are also required to request references prior to interview. 

Closing date for applications Sunday 20 October 2024

Interviews will take place the week beginning Monday 21st October 

Early application is strongly encouraged as we reserve the right to withdraw or interview and close the advert ahead of the closing date. 

Applications are submitted through our Every Candidate Portal. If you are a new user to our portal, you can click on ‘Register’ to complete your candidate profile. If you already have a candidate profile with us, click on ‘Sign In’.  Both of these routes allow you to feed your candidate information into any of our vacancies and view the status of your application. 

We have added a video to help guide you through our portal, please visit https://vimeo.com/737845492/c1b8e43656   

Spencer Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our children and young people. Therefore, we expect everyone to share this commitment. All appointments are subject to satisfactory pre- employment checks, including a satisfactory Enhanced criminal records with Barred List Check through the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and the completion of Level 2 Safeguarding training. It is an offence to apply for the role if an applicant is barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children (where the role involves this type of regulated activity). 

The Trust and its member academies are committed to promoting equality and diversity in both employment and education provision. We aim to ensure that students, parents, governors, employees, contractors, partners, clients and other stakeholders within the Trust community are treated fairly, and with dignity and respect regardless of Protected Characteristics.

Spencer Academies Trust is a Disability Confident Committed Employer