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Employment Status: Maternity
Full Time/Part Time: Full Time
Salary: MPS/UPS plus TLR2b £6,068 per annum
Start Date: March 2026
About the Post:
The successful candidate will need to be committed to delivering the school's vision and the high ambitions for the school's future. Their clear strategic and operational activity leads to sustained improvements and raised standards across the organisation. The Post Holder communicates to others clearly and regularly to their team and those they may work with about the strategic direction of "development and standards" policy and the operational functions for which they are accountable. In addition, they ensure that the systems they introduce are understood and embedded in the every-day work of their subject. The Post Holder seeks to challenge underperformance and remove barriers to inclusion and achievement. They are an outstanding teacher and tutor who consistently models Professional Standards. They actively seek out best practice and inspire others also to continue to improve. The Post Holder actively supports the activities of the school community and the wider community it serves.
The areas of responsilility will include a range of strategic and operational activities. The Post Holder will support by:
* Leading the French department across all relevant key stages.
* Creating and maintaining positive and supportive relationships with students, staff, parents, the PTA, Trustees and all other stakeholders.
* Engaging with appropriate professional development opportunities to promote professional effectiveness in their role.
The Team:
Languages are an important part of the school's curriculum at the Weald of Kent. Language learning at the Weald of Kent is exciting and engaging. The Languages team consists of a Head of Faculty who also oversees French, a Head of German and a Head of Spanish.
At Key Stage 3, all students learn French, Spanish or German and continue with this language at GCSE. We have an increasing number of students who choose to take a language at A Level, with up to 15 students in each of Year 12 and 13. We have reintroduced German to the curriculum and have a new cohort of students eligible to take A Level German as well. Students follow the AQA specifications in the relevant language at both GCSE and A Level.
Every member in the Languages team plays their part to help provide a large and varied programme of extra-curricular activities throughout the year. We organise a variety of opportunities for our students to visit France, Germany and Spain on cultural trips and we also celebrate all our languages through a series of events throughout the year. Every classroom has an interactive whiteboard as standard and we have invested in a series of digital textbooks.
Job Description:
The areas of responsibility will include a range of strategic and operational activities. The Post Holder will support by:
* Supporting the Director of Faculty to lead across all relevant key stages.
* Creating and maintaining positive and supportive relationships with students, staff, parents, the PTA, Trustees and all other stakeholders.
* Engaging with appropriate professional development opportunities to promote professional effectiveness in their role.
Strategic Responsibilities
* Secure the commitment of others to the vision, ethos, ambitions for the school's future and policies of the school in order to accrue high levels of performance from the personnel and teams for which they have direct identified accountability.
* Carry out routine, rigorous and robust self–evaluation in order to contribute to the creation, implementation and monitoring of the school strategic plan.
* Facilitate opportunities for all staff to contribute to achieving the school's priorities and targets.
Teaching, Tutoring and Learning
* Establishing a learning environment that extends students' academic, personal, learning and thinking skills in order to increase their independence and prepare them to take their place as responsible adults.
* Ensuring classroom practice is always engaging and challenging and that student behavior is well managed and safe.
* Assist in monitoring the quality of learning, tutoring and teaching within the Science department.
* Assist in analysing performance data to inform improvement strategies.
* Promoting opportunities to share and develop best practice.
Leading and Managing Staff/Resources
* Fostering positive working relationships across the school community.
* Leading groups of staff in development and self-evaluating activities.
* Actively promoting rigorous and developmental performance development processes.
* Informing the Headteacher and Trustees of future development needs that will help to realise the school's vision.
* The effective and efficient deployment of staff and support those staff in carrying out their duties.
* Through advising on priorities for expenditure and in monitoring the effectiveness of spending and usage of resources to ensure value for money with the Head of Science oversight.
Strategic Responsibilities
To work alongside the Director of Faculty:
* Contribute to short, medium and long-term planning to meet the department's and school's priorities.
* Maintain overview of all students' progress (in their identified area) and introduce appropriate intervention strategies to secure student targeted outcomes at the end of each Key Stage.
Operational Responsibilities
To work alongside the Director of Faculty to:
* Ensure day to day management and development of the French Department with Director of Faculty oversight.
* Monitor the students for which they are directly accountable to ensure achievement of targets.
* Maintain an understanding of and develop the contribution their area makes to realising the school's overall academic and attendance targets.
* In consultation with the Director of Faculty, take a proactive role in the organisation and delivery of key events and moments planned for the relevant year groups.
* In consultation with the Director of Faculty, take a proactive role in the organisation and delivery of the reporting and assessment process including consultation and information evenings for the relevant year groups.
* In consultation with the Director of Faculty, take a proactive role in the decisions and delivery of curricula and 'beyond the classroom' based activities.
* Develop links with parents and carers of students in the school and ensure they are well informed about the curriculum, targets and all other relevant matters relating to their child's progress.
Direct Line Management Responsibilities for the strategic direction, work and policies of:
* Direct Line Management of identified personnel TBC
* Overview of subject area staffing
This job description is current at the date shown, but following consultation with you, may be changed by the Headteacher (or designated person) to reflect or anticipate changes in the job which are commensurate with the salary and job title.
Application Closing Date: Monday 12 January 2026, 9am
Shortlist Interview Date: Thursday 15 January 2026
Early applications are advised as the School reserves the right to appoint at any stage during the application process.
The School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Applicants will be required to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post. As this role involves 'regulated activity' with children the successful applicant will be required to complete a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) disclosure application. Employment will be conditional upon the College being satisfied with the result of the Enhanced DBS check and the outcome of all other checks.
The School will also carry out a check of the Children's Barred List on the successful applicant. Applicants should be aware that it is unlawful for the School to employ anyone to work with children if they are barred from doing so, and it is a criminal offence for a person to apply to work with children if they are barred from doing so.
This role is also exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the School is therefore permitted to ask shortlisted applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.
Job Types: Full-time, Temporary
Pay: £38,984.00-£57,116.00 per year
Benefits:
* Company pension
* Cycle to work scheme
* Free flu jabs
* Free parking
* Health & wellbeing programme
* On-site parking
* Private medical insurance
* Referral programme
Work Location: In person