The Ecclesbourne School is delighted to offer a fantastic opportunity to join our Modern Foreign Languages Faculty as a Language Teaching Assistant. You will be passionate about the power of education to improve the life chances of young people and be a committed team player.
The Language Teaching Assistant’s role is to prepare students for the GCSE and A level oral examinations. This includes reinforcement of topics covered in class, providing authentic materials for the teaching of aspects of the country’s culture, aiding student’s pronunciation and intonations, oral exam practice and producing practice exam materials.
You will work for 39 weeks per year, which is term-time plus five whole school closure days. Hours are determined each academic year based on curriculum need, core hours to be worked between 9.00am and 3.40pm to suit the curriculum needs of the school. For the academic year 2023 to 2024 you will work for a total of approximately 3.5 hours per week. Salary Unqualified Teachers Scale Points 1 to 3 (£20,598 to £25,323 per annum pro rata).
The full candidate brief is available to view here.
We are a non-selective school and committed to maintaining an all-inclusive community for all students. Children of members of staff, with a minimum of two years’ service at the school at the time of application, are included in our admissions criteria.
The reward for working at Ecclesbourne is more than financial, please visit the vacancies section of the school website to learn more about what we give back to our staff in terms of wellbeing, CPD and support.
Full details, including an application pack, can be found below. To apply, please complete the application form, ensuring that you outline how your previous experience has prepared you for this position and what skills you will bring to it. This should be emailed to tspencer-keyse@ecclesbourne.derbyshire.sch.uk
For further information or help with the application process, please contact:
Tina Spencer-Keyse, Director of Human Resources
Email: TSpencer-Keyse@ecclesbourne.derbyshire.sch.uk
Tel: 01332 843257
Application Forms
Our commitment to safeguarding: Our school is committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our students, and we expect all our staff to share this commitment. We adopt a fair, robust and consistent recruitment process which is in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education. This includes online checks for shortlisted candidates. All offers of employment will be conditional on a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check, references, health check and, where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check.
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Our commitment to equality and diversity: As a school we are passionate about diversity and recognize that as individuals we all bring something unique to the role regardless of any protected characteristics which is why we treat all of our people equally, without compromise. We are committed to providing equality and fairness throughout our recruitment and employment practices and not discriminating on any grounds.
Closing date: 9am on Monday 16th October 2023
Please note that we do not accept any applications via CV.