Teacher of German & French
Saltash Community School
Cornwall
- New
- Salary:
- MPS/UPS
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- ASAP / Summer Term 2025
- Apply by:
- 27 November 2024
Job overview
We are seeking to appoint a full-time, permanent teacher of Modern Foreign Languages.
We are looking for a passionate and driven teacher displaying the ability to continuously reflect on their own practice. The ideal candidate to strengthen our dedicated and supportive team will be willing to teach using the EPI approach, show willingness to regularly contribute to departmental tasks and have a sense of humour. You will share our commitment to excellence and our desire to achieve the very best outcomes for our students.
At Saltash Community School, we offer the study of German and French at GCSE and A level, so experience in the teaching of both would be highly desirable but not essential.
We are part of South East Cornwall Multi Academy Regional Trust (SMART), incorporating other schools, both primary and secondary, from South East Cornwall. If you would like to become part of our school, we would like to hear from you.
If you would like to visit the school or have more information on this position, please contact the School's Operations Manager, Mrs Gaynor Bersey, by email: gbersey@saltashcloud.net.
Please be aware that we can only consider applications submitted directly by candidates using the form available on our vacancies page. Please visit the school website vacancies page for details: https://www.smart-trust.net/information/vacancies.
Closing date: 9:00am on Wednesday, 27th November 2024.
Interview date: w/c 2nd December 2024.
All appointments will be subject to a satisfactory enhanced DBS disclosure, and applicants will be expected to demonstrate their entitlement to work in the UK. If you have worked outside of the UK, please provide a relevant police check for each country you have worked in.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All offers of employment will be subject to the successful candidate undertaking an enhanced criminal record check (paid for by the school).
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About Saltash Community School
OVERVIEW
The school is a mixed 11 to 18 comprehensive school established in its present form in 1968. The school converted to Academy Status in April 2011, and became part of a Multi Academy Trust (SMART) with one of its partner primaries, Landulph, in January 2014. The SMART family expanded in 2016 to include Liskeard and Looe Secondaries along with Dobwalls and Trewidland Primaries. Situated in an area of outstanding natural beauty, it occupies a 13 acre site overlooking Plymouth Sound and the Tamar, Tavy and Lynher rivers.
We serve our partner primary schools in the town, the rural primary schools at Landulph and St Germans as well as an increasing number of students from Plymouth and further afield in Cornwall.
We are proud of our livestock area containing pigs, rabbits, ducks, chickens and goats along with several allotments which enhance provision in many curriculum areas.
Our extensive sports fields, including a superb floodlit all-weather pitch, are amongst the best in the county, enabling us to offer a wide range of different sports to our students and local community.
VALUES AND ETHOS
Our Trust is committed to developing SMART Learners, SMART Leaders and SMART Communities. This means that everyone’s voice is heard and we commit to support every person in our Trust on their own personal learning journey.
At Saltash Community School, our mission statement is ‘Achieving More Together’: we are committed to working together with all our community to enable everyone to overcome their barriers and to thrive as active citizens; developing the skills, knowledge and cultural capital they need to achieve their aspirations: students and staff alike.
Our TEAM Core Values of Tenacity, Empathy, Aspiration and Motivation underpin all we do. If you share these values and are committed to inclusive comprehensive education with wellbeing at its heart, then we would love to hear from you.
WORKING FOR US
If you're searching for your next teaching post, why not contact us now? You'll be working at a great school and be part of a friendly, helpful team. We're always interested to hear from enthusiastic, committed teachers - send us your CV now via our School Talent Pool and say what sort of role you're looking for.
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