Foreign Languages Assistant (Spanish) - Dr Challoner's Grammar School
Location: Amersham
Overview
Dr Challoner's Grammar School is seeking to appoint a Foreign Languages Assistant to support the learning and teaching of Spanish. The role is offered up to 15.5 hours per week, term time, fixed term until the end of the 2025-26 academic year
Term time only
Salary type: Other
Salary Details: £10,357 - £10,988 pa pro rata (for 15.5 hours/week)
Contract type: Fixed Term
Hours: Part-time
Closing date: 17/10/2025
Interviews to be held: To be confirmed
About us
Dr Challoner’s has 1370 students, of which 450 are in the Sixth Form. In November 2019 the school was judged to be Outstanding in a full section 5 inspection under the new Education Inspection Framework. It is regarded as one of the leading grammar schools in the country. As lead in the Teaching School Hub - Buckinghamshire we provide an exciting range of professional development opportunities.
Website: https://www.challoners.com/
About the role
The role will involve working independently with small groups of senior students to develop their oral competency, and occasionally with larger groups or whole classes of younger students. You will prepare resources and deliver oral lessons and assessments, as well as planning and teaching sequences of lessons, liaising closely with the class teacher.
About you
The successful applicant will be a proficient Spanish speaker, with the ability to prepare and effectively deliver lessons that meet the curriculum requirements. You will have excellent written and oral communication skills, the ability to relate well to young people, and be an effective team worker. You should have some experience of working in an environment providing support for young people, with school experience being desirable but not essential.
Other information
Please see our web page https://www.challoners.com/c/information/general-information/staff-vacancies for our application form and recruitment monitoring form.
Visits to the school are warmly welcome. To arrange a visit or to find out more about the role, please contact our school office on the number below. Please send completed application forms to the email address below.
Tel No: 01494 787500
Email: [email protected]
Dr Challoner’s Grammar School is committed to safeguarding and successful candidates will be required to complete an enhanced DBS check. In accordance with Keeping Children Safe In Education guidance, we will carry out online searches to research information on shortlisted candidates, to determine suitability to work with children and keep them safe. This is not part of the shortlisting process; if there are any findings of concern, you will be given the opportunity to address them at interview.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare:
- All unspent convictions and conditional cautions
- All spent convictions and adult cautions that are not protected (i.e. that are not filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2020).
For further information on filtering please refer to Nacro guidance and the guidance issued by the Ministry of Justice (see, in particular, the section titled ‘Exceptions Order’).
It is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. All shortlisted applicants will be required to complete self-disclosure form and return prior to interview.
