Head of Modern Foreign Languages Faculty

3 weeks ago


Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom Birmingham City Council Full time

Job start date: 28 October 2024

Hours per week: Full time

King Edward VI Northfield School for Girls

Turves Green

Birmingham

B31 4BP

Telephone number:

Contact email:

Contract type: Fixed term to cover Maternity Leave starting after October 2024 half term or before

About the post

We are seeking to appoint a well qualified and inspiring French language specialist to lead this well established and popular subject for a period of time as maternity cover. The successful candidate will be an excellent classroom practitioner and have a proven track record in raising standards and achievement at all levels. The MFL Faculty is taught by a strong and dedicated team and this is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, forward-thinking and ambitious professional to join us. Candidates must be committed to raising levels of attainment and supporting the whole school focus on teaching and learning in addition to being ready to engage with our culture of professional development.

About King Edward VI Northfield School for Girls

We are an ambitious and forward-thinking school and have been highly praised for our inclusive ethos and the attitudes and values of our pupils.

Strengths of the school include:


• a superb new state of the art school building


• excellent pastoral care and support


• motivated, well behaved pupils


• an ethos which values and develops all staff


• access to excellent professional development both within the school and across the Academy Trust


• supportive and committed staff who work as a team


• strong and improving exam results


• located in South Birmingham with excellent transport links by both road and rail

About the Academy Trust

The King Edward VI Foundation, Birmingham, is a progressive charitable organisation which has supported excellence in education across the City since 1552. Our schools are diverse in nature but have a common purpose and commitment to achieving our mission of "making Birmingham the best place to be educated in the UK". The King Edward VI Academy Trust Birmingham, established in 2017, currently consists of two independent schools, six selective, and five non-selective academies. Our recent expansion into a wider diversity of local communities is enabling us to accelerate our strategies for improving the life chances of young people in Birmingham, whatever their background.

Our highly focused five-year strategy aims to build on our existing strengths and heritage and deliver our ambitious growth strategy which aims to bring in a further five academies over the next five years.

The Schools of King Edward VI in Birmingham is an educational charity supporting eleven schools.

A job description and an application form can be found on our website or can be obtained from: King Edward VI Northfield School for Girls, Turves Green, Northfield, Birmingham, B31 4BP / or email Miss S. Killeen:

This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to all necessary pre-employment checks, including: enhanced DBS; Prohibition check; Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work.

All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references.

An online search will also be carried out as part of due diligence on all short-listed candidates.

This post is not part of the City Council and the successful candidate will not hold a Birmingham City Council Contract of Employment.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. Which means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are 'protected', so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account.

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