Head of Department for Modern Foreign Languages

We are looking for a dynamic, passionate teacher to lead our Languages department at Moseley School and Sixth Form.

Our languages department consists of a team of 5 highly skilled and dedicated teachers who all share a passion for languages! At Moseley, we truly value foreign languages and diversity and achieve very good outcomes for those who choose to study Language subjects at KS4 and KS5. As part of the Humanities faculty, the languages team offers a global perspective and widens horizons.

If you are successful in securing this exciting opportunity, you will benefit from:

• a team of 5 highly skilled MFL specialists, who are dedicated teachers, and all share a passion for languages!
• • Modern Foreign Languages are highly valued at the school. We teach French, Spanish and Urdu across Key Stages 3, 4 and 5. On entry to the school in Year 7 our pupils choose their preferred language to study throughout Key Stage 3.
• all three languages are optional subjects at Key Stage 4 and Moseley School also offers A-levels in French, Spanish and Urdu.
• many of our young people have the ability to speak a home language and they are highly encouraged to take the GCSE in that language if it is available. In recent years we have entered students for GCSE and GCE A levels in German, Polish, Portuguese, Bengali, Greek, Chinese, Italian, and our students of Arabic always perform amazingly well.
• our MFL classrooms are well-equipped, positive, and welcoming environments in which we enable students to get the most out of their learning.
• a school ethos that places great value on cultural awareness and appreciation. This is reflected in our MFL lesson content, which promotes knowledge of customs, festivals and traditions in French, Spanish and Urdu speaking countries.
• we are committed to offering a range of experiences that help bring our languages to life and an intention to widen the offer further, with trips abroad.

Core Purpose:

To ensure that students at Moseley make maximum progress and achieve their full potential in MFL, while developing a real passion for language learning.

Professional leadership and management of the MFL department, to secure high-quality teaching and effective use of resources and further raising standards and outcomes for all students.

To ensure that all students make positive progress against prior attainment, by ensuring teaching is consistently high quality, progress is monitored, and appropriate measures are taken to address any underachievement.

Job Purpose:

To effectively lead and manage teachers of MFL so that the department:

• delivers an engaging, aspirational, and well-planned curriculum, to achieve high standards of student attainment and progress.
• teachers are supported and developed to teach high quality lessons that engage students.
• provides students with high quality feedback.
• shares excellent practice on specifications, examination requirements and resources /teaching strategies.
• to keep up to date with national developments in the subjects, teaching practice and methodology
• supports all students to achieve their full potential and really uphold our Moseley RAISE values.
• Safeguarding: To be familiar with school policies, in particular safeguarding procedures, and promote the welfare of children.

Key responsibilities:

• to lead the department in a way that achieves the job purpose and fulfils statutory requirements.
• to champion the study of MFL and lead the effective promotion of the subject.
• to revise and update the KS3, KS4 and KS5 schemes of work so that they meet the MFL programme of study.
• to conduct data analysis to produce reports on assessment and examination performance for the department, including interventions.
• to lead department CPD sessions.
• to monitor student progress and lead the department teachers, to intervene where students are underachieving.
• to quality assure the MFL provision.
• to liaise with wider school teams to ensure all students receive the best possible experience of MFL.
• lead on raising attainment and aspirational initiatives including extra-curricular activities, which enhance the curriculum and experience of MFL students.
• play a full part in the life of the school community, to support its distinctive mission and ethos and to encourage staff and students to follow this example.
• participate in the appraisal process, identifying personal professional development priorities which will impact on students’ learning.
• to line manage the teachers of the department, ensuring teaching and professional standards are met and maintained, including providing professional and personal advice and support as needed.
• to act as form tutor and contribute to PSHE according to school policy.

This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to all necessary pre-employment checks, including: an 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.  

Rehabilitation of offenders: 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. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide. 

Please note this advert may close when sufficient applications are received.

Interviews will take place on Wednesday 26th March 2025.

Closing Date: 21 March 2025, 8:00am

How to Apply:

Please visit our school website recruitment page to apply and for further information regarding the role and details about our school https://moseley.bham.sch.uk/

We welcome visitors to the school. Please contact us if you would like to arrange a visit.

Please contact the Recruitment Team if you would like further information regarding this role or the school in general please email us on recruitment@moseley.bham.sch.uk