Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
September 2025
Apply by:
2 December 2024
Job overview
The King’s School, Worcester wishes to appoint an inspirational and dynamic Head of Languages.
The School seeks a teaching professional with both integrity and compassion to steer our busy and thriving Senior School Languages Department. We invite applications from well-qualified and ambitious teachers as well as experienced Heads of Department.
The successful candidate will be a specialist in either French, German or Spanish and ideally a combination of these languages. Candidates should also have considerable personal enthusiasm for the subject and a proven record of teaching the subject throughout the age range.
The Head of Languages will lead a team of nine members of teaching staff, one visiting Mandarin tutor and four Language Assistants.
This is a full-time, permanent role, commencing September 2025.
Safeguarding responsibilities of the successful candidate
Staff are advised to maintain an attitude of “it could be happening here and probably is” as far as safeguarding is concerned and should always act in the best interest of the child.
All staff are expected to actively promote and safeguard the welfare of all pupils. As this role involves significant contact with children the postholder will be considered to be in regulated activity and must report any concerns in a timely manner.
All staff must also attend annual safeguarding training and have proper regard for the School’s safeguarding policy and procedures.
How to apply
Please visit the vacancies page of the School website www.ksw.org.uk/careers to find out more about the benefits of working at King’s and to hear why our staff love being a member of the School community.
Please read the applicant information booklet below for the detailed job description and person specification. To apply, applicants must complete the TES online application form.
When completing the supporting statement of the application form please ensure that you refer to the job description and person specification. Please also provide a detailed employment history.
Enquiries about the role are welcomed and can be sent to the HR team at recruitment@ksw.org.uk.
Closing date for applications: 9am, Monday 2nd December 2024
Interviews will be held on Tuesday 10th December 2024
The King's Foundation
King’s Worcester is a hugely welcoming and fulfilling place to work. We are incredibly proud of our reputation. Our employees and our enviable King’s community is what sets our school apart. We are committed to recruiting the best candidates, who join us from a diverse range of backgrounds, including other educational settings, industry or the commercial world. We are also committed to developing and helping colleagues to thrive while they are here at King’s. Careers at King’s Worcester are exceptionally rewarding in many ways. Here's what we can offer you:
* We promote the values of mutual respect and integrity at every level in the Foundation, and we are an equal opportunities employer.
* A highly successful, well-resourced school with a warm, welcoming atmosphere and a positive outlook.
* A competitive salary, commensurate with the importance of the post and with the experience and qualities of the successful candidate.
* Access to an Aviva Defined Contribution Pension Scheme for teaching and support staff.
* A generous fee remission for up to two children of employees who attend schools in the King’s Foundation (pro-rata for part-time staff).
* A genuinely rewarding role as well as career development and support for professional studies, if appropriate. Whatever the role, we offer excellent training and development. We are also committed to promoting from within whenever we can, giving the chance to build a great future at King’s.
* Access to the School’s outstanding sports facilities including the gym and swimming pool at agreed times.
* Staff are able to purchase private medical insurance through the School in order to benefit from group premium rates.
* Lunch is provided for employees during the school day, plus hot drinks and snacks.
* Employees have full use of School library resources and services.
* Free flu vaccinations.
* Free Yoga classes.
* Free access to our Employee Assistance Programme.
The King’s Foundation 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 including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service. Shortlisted applicants will be required to complete a self-declaration form in relation to any criminal record or information that may make you unsuitable to work with children, and will be subject to an online search.
In order to provide our pupils with a well-rounded and enriched educational experience that is truly representative of the world in which they grow up in, the King’s Foundation strives to place equity, diversity and inclusion at the heart of everything we do, ensuring that we build a community which is truly representative of all backgrounds and experiences. As such we believe that we will do that best if our employees come from different backgrounds and if we create an environment of inclusion and belonging for them.
About The King's School
* The King's School
* 5 College Green, Worcester
* Worcestershire
* WR1 2LL
* United Kingdom
+44 1905 721700
The King’s Worcester Foundation is a dynamic community of independent day schools for boys and girls aged from two to eighteen. It is a family of three schools, the Senior School (11-18), King’s Worcester, and two Prep Schools, King’s St Alban’s (2-11) and King’s Hawford (2-11), based across two beautiful sites.
Attracting over 1,300 children from Worcestershire, the West Midlands and beyond, it provides an inspirational education, helping girls and boys to thrive and reach their true potential.
Re-founded by Henry VIII in 1541, the School sits on the bank of the River Severn in the embracing arm of one of England’s finest cathedrals and adjacent to its sports fields, arguably some of the most beautifully located in the country.
The School was delighted to achieve impressive GCSE and A-level results in 2024, the most recent year when public examinations were taken. The Sunday Times listed King’s in their Top 10 Independent Senior Schools in the West Midlands for their A-level results, with 76% at Grades A*-B, and 47% of all grades being A*- A. King’s pupils also excelled at GCSE, with 65% of grades at 9, 8 or 7, 41% of grades being 9 or 8, equivalent to the A* grade and over 96% 9-4 grades (or equivalent), which is the largest number of pupils ever achieving top grades at King’s.
King’s Worcester is a profoundly inclusive, welcoming community, sustained by the warmth of its relationships. The School combines history with innovation, the vigour of a busy city-centre day school with the immersive life of its boarding school origins and academic excellence with co-curricular engagement and success.
Our Values and Vision
The School aims to focus on helping young people to reach their full potential at school in preparation for leading confident, fulfilled, and unselfish lives as adults.
Through the Schools’ values of ambition, resilience, humility, creativity and kindness, King’s has the vision that every member of the King’s community will be curious, caring and confident, fulfilling their mission to seek excellence in all they do and provide an outstanding preparation for life.
Independent Schools Inspectorate
“Pupils achieve highly in both academic and extra-curricular areas and especially so in art, drama, music and sport. The quality…is excellent.”
Good Schools Guide
“A highly regarded yet down-to-earth cathedral school that can’t fail to charm, at the same time as being a go-to school for ambitious parents. For us, it’s the warmth that is its USP. This is a school that wears its heart on its sleeve and is all the better for it. Couldn’t be more caring if they tried.”
See King’s Worcester Virtually
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Our Staff
King’s Worcester is a hugely welcoming and fulfilling place to work. We are incredibly proud of our reputation. Our wonderful employees and our enviable King’s community are what set the school apart. The Senior School currently employs 103 teaching staff and 139 support staff in a variety of roles, from teachers, sports coaches, language assistants and technicians to professional services roles across functions including IT, finance, human resources, administration, and business development.
King’s staff come from a variety of backgrounds (both teaching and the commercial world), contributing a diverse range of talent and experience, which enables us to provide our pupils with a well-rounded and enriching educational environment. We strive to place equity, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of everything we do.
We are committed to developing and helping our colleagues to thrive while they are working in the Foundation. Each year we also welcome PGCE students from the University of Worcester to complete their placements at King’s.
Working for King’s
You can discover more about working for King’s and the benefits provided by visiting their website. https://www.ksw.org.uk/the-kings-foundation/jobs-and-vacancies/
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