Head of MFL - Spanish and French

Job Title:        Head of MFL - Spanish and French

Location:       Irlam and Cadishead Academy, Irlam

Salary:           United Learning Teacher Payscale plus TLR (dependent on experience)

Reporting to: Assistant Principal

Closing Date: 12th July 2024

Interviews:   w/c 15th July 2024

Start Date: September 2024

The Role:

We are looking for a candidate that can teach Spanish and French. Who can contribute to the overall leadership of Irlam and Cadishead Academy. You will provide professional leadership and management to the Modern Foreign Languages department in order to secure high quality teaching, the effective use of resources and improved standards of learning and achievement of all students.

Main responsibilities:

• Make outstanding academic progress in Modern Foreign Languages through outstanding teaching and effective intervention and catch-up strategies.
• Engage and promote MFL in the wider academy through language days, assemblies and promoting the importance of languages in careers.
• Revise and develop the MFL curriculum collaboratively with the team across the Academy.  
• Reward students for their hard work throughout the year and increase their love for MFL through promoting the subject whole school.
• Ensure the wider curriculum for MFL provides a variety of opportunities for students
• Establish short, medium and long-term plans for the development and resourcing of MFL through thorough and honest self-evaluation. 
• Monitor the progress of students and establish intervention strategies as required. 
• Ensure that subject staff understand and make effective use of data to track student performance in order to raise their attainment.
• Lead by example and provide motivation and direction for the whole team.
• Plan, delegate and evaluate work carried out by members of the MFL department.
• Develop the leadership attributes and qualities of members of the MFL team

Our pledge, to all our academy teachers, is that by working for us you will benefit from more pay, more time, and more support.

More pay…

• We pay an average of 5% above national scales – the best rates of pay in the sector

• Cash towards medical treatment

• Generous staff discount scheme 

more time…

• Three extra INSET days for planning

• At least one personal day a year

 and more support

• Great training for your career

• Exceptional curriculum resources

• Expert subject advice

• Support for your wellbeing

Irlam and Cadishead Academy is a welcoming, ambitious and nurturing secondary school that seeks to give students a genuine enjoyment of learning. Guided by our values of Respect, Enthusiasm, Ambition and Determination, we have a relentless drive to ensure the best possible education for our students.

We are proud to have established a culture of high expectations and high aspirations and through a broad curriculum and extracurricular programme, we aim to give our students every opportunity to gain the skills, knowledge and experiences they need to become caring and confident citizens of tomorrow.

By joining Irlam and Cadishead Academy you will also become part of United Learning - a unique group of independent and state schools which work together to bring out ‘the best in everyone’. As part of United Learning, we seek to deliver an Education with Character in order to equip our students with the skills and personal attributes they need to succeed in adult life.

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Employees will, in accordance with statutory guidance, be subject to a comprehensive checking process including references from current and previous employers, health, right to work in the UK, an enhanced DBS check and a further check against the appropriate barred list.