Salary: Competitive salary, plus benefits
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time
Required: September 2025
The role
Streatham & Clapham High School (SCHS) seeks to appoint a dynamic, energetic and inspirational teacher to lead our thriving and highly successful Modern Foreign Languages (MFL) department.
As Head of MFL, you will be responsible for the professional leadership and management of the MFL department, ensuring the delivery of high standards of teaching and learning that will inspire a love of languages in our students.
Your work will shape and develop our exciting MFL provision, ensuring that our students fulfil their academic potential in French, Spanish or Chinese.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and positive leader, with excellent subject knowledge and understanding. You will possess experience of teaching Spanish to A Level and French to GCSE, pairing this with strong leadership experience gained within an MFL department (e.g. overseeing schemes of work or key stages).
The Department
The MFL department is made up of a team of seven teachers and three language assistants, who all share a vision that promotes excellence in outcomes and inspires passion for the subject.
All pupils study French and Mandarin in Year 7. In Year 8, pupils continue with two languages selected from a choice of French, Spanish and Mandarin. At Key Stage 4, girls continue with at least one language and routinely excel – in 2024, we celebrated 100% of our students achieving grades 9-7 in Chinese. At Key Stage 5, students can continue with their preferred language at A Level.
About Streatham & Clapham High School
Streatham & Clapham High School is a vibrant, exciting and fulfilling place in which to work. The School is characterised by a warm, welcoming and supportive atmosphere. New colleagues are supported through a personalised induction programme.
As part of the GDST, the UK's leading network of independent girls' schools, we can offer a variety of benefits, such as:
• Competitive salaries and pay progression
• Access to extensive professional development opportunities
• Training grants for qualifications
• Generous pension schemes
• Free life assurance benefit
• A discount of up to 50% on fees for children at GDST schools
• Free lunches for all staff during term time
• Interest free loans for training, computer purchase loans and travel season ticket loans
• A Cycle to Work scheme
• Good transport links
• Competitive terms and conditions of employment
Applications should be received no later than midday, 22 April 2025. The interviews for this role will be on 25 April 2025.
The GDST is committed to diversity, inclusion and real change: a family where every individual is valued, respected and included.
We are committed to the safeguarding of children and child protection screening will apply to this post.
Streatham & Clapham High School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. As such applicants must be willing to undergo child-protection screening appropriate to the post including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service. To learn more about the school’s Safeguarding Procedures, and other policies, please refer to our Policies and Procedures section of this website.