Job Description
If you love teaching, are passionate about languages and want to be part of a brilliant team where you will receive outstanding professional development, then Tanbridge House School would like to hear from you.
Tanbridge House School is an inspiring place to work, where students and staff share the same goals and strive to be exceptional every day through our core values of Care Kindness and Achievement. We ‘teach to the top’ to ensure that students are challenged in all lessons and make effective use of scaffolding to support all learners. Staff are reflective and committed to continually developing their own practice.
In 2025, our results showed that a on average, 90% of all students across French, Spanish and German achieved a grade 4 or above. 27% of those students achieved a grade 9-7 all languages. As you can see, we are a strong department that is looking to maintain this high-quality teaching and passion for our subject. We are also looking for someone who has the potential to develop their teaching and classroom skills over time.
Enrichment is something that MFL works incredibly hard on to ensure students develop their cultural capital and understanding of the language they are learning in the real world. We have successfully run trips to France and Spain with a cross-curricular trip to Germany with the History department. We also have a strong and developing EAL community in the school where we support those students to settle into Tanbridge House School and potentially take a GCSE in their home language.
Safeguarding Statement
Tanbridge House School and West Sussex County Council are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment. All successful candidates will be subject to an appropriate Disclosure and Barring Service check along with other relevant employment checks, including satisfactory references.
How to Apply
NOTE TO CANDIDATES - Please do not select the ‘Apply online’ button as the School processes your applications directly rather than through this site.
To apply for this role please see the school website www.tanbridge-house-sch.co.uk for an application form. Once complete please return this to jobs@ths.uk.net
Please contact Mrs Duneclift at the above email address or on extension 279 if you have any queries.
Please note, CVs are not acceptable.
Please click on the Application Attachment link below to download the advert and further information.
Application Attachments:
Advert MFL - temp contract - October 2026
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Responsibilities
The successful candidate will be:
• Enthusiastic, flexible, and resilient
• Determined to “make a difference” in young people’s lives
• Ambitious for students and for themselves
• A reflective practitioner, always striving to be the ‘best they can be’
At Tanbridge House School, we are proud to offer French, Spanish and German. All students in KS3 come to Tanbridge learning French alongside Spanish or German. We run a three-year KS4 under the Edexcel Pearson exam board. It would be beneficial if candidates could offer two languages at KS3 and at least one at KS4, and KS4 German would be desirable.
Qualifications
Applicants are required to have a formal teaching qualification. Unfortunately unqualified teachers cannot be accepted for this appointment.