Job Description
Spanish Language Assistant
Location: Brighton, BN2 0AL
Salary: £23,280 per annum
Reporting to: Head of Spanish
Brighton College is seeking to appoint a Spanish Language Assistant to start in August 2025.
General Duties and Responsibilities
At Brighton College, French, Spanish, German, Russian and Mandarin are taught to A level within the timetable. Languages are taught in a well-equipped classroom block using a wide variety of physical and web based resources.
The Spanish Department comprises four full-time teaching staff, all of them native speakers, as well as an assistant who provides support primarily to our GCSE, A-level and bilingual pupils. The departments results in public examinations are exceptional: in the last five years, 93% of pupils at A2 achieved an A* or an A, 79.5% of our GCSE pupils achieved an 8 or a 9 at GCSE and 97% achieved a 9-7.
Spanish is an increasingly popular choice at GCSE and A level. The department currently offers three annual trips to Spain which are very popular: a Spanish immersion trip to Salamanca for 5th and 6th form pupils; a trip to Valencia for the 4th form; and a reading trip to Madrid for the Lower Sixth.
The successful candidates primary responsibility will be guiding Sixth Form pupils through the A-level Independent Research Project (IRP), giving pupils support in their cultural understanding as well as t...