Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (French / Spanish)
Start date: ASAP
Salary information: £20.39 per hour
Work pattern: 12 hours per week, Term time only (38 weeks)
Contract type: Fixed term for the remainder of the 2025/26 academic year.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a busy team, in a highly successful, oversubscribed, mixed, multi-cultural high school in West London. As part of the GHS community, you will benefit from the support and value we place on our staff. This position is also ideal for those seeking to embark on a teacher training as this role offers first-hand experience and exposure to the modern foreign languages’ curriculum, classroom teaching and the opportunity of working directly with our teaching staff.
About Greenford High School
We consistently achieve outcomes that place us in the top 5-10% of schools nationally for student progress. Many students gain places at top universities, but we are also a truly comprehensive school and support each child to achieve, whatever their ability or circumstances. We value our students’ personal development and always support trips, visits, speakers and extra-curricular experiences where we can. We are known for our exceptionally strong relationships between staff and students and for our staff promotion opportunities across many areas of the school.
Our modern facilities are superb with a university campus style layout, extensive IT facilities, large, expansive playing fields and a purpose-built block for Year 7. We also have one of the largest Post-16 Centres in London with designated study and support areas.
What does GHS offer you?
- A supportive approach to approving staff leave of absences
- Free on-site car parking spaces and secure bicycle storage
- Salary sacrifice schemes
- Free access to ‘Everyone Active’ sporting facilities and fitness gym
- Staff social events
- A range of health & well-being services including access to the ‘Workplace Options’ staff support scheme and onsite counselling.
The Foreign Language Teaching Assistant will be expected to:
- Work 12 hours per week, term time only
- Work with individuals and small groups of GCSE students and A-level students assisting in developing their speaking skills
- Help to plan activities and lessons, produce resources to help students to improve their language skills
- Prepare students for their oral examination
- Have the opportunity to contribute to cross-curricular work in collaboration with other subject areas
- Introduce students to your own culture by discussing topics such as current affairs, films, sport and festivals
- Support the creation and/or development of international partnerships with a school in another country
Our Staff
Our school is a highly diverse community, and it is very important to us that the profile of our staff group matches that of our students. We therefore welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates from a wide range of backgrounds.
If you share our vision and want to join a school where you will be recognised and valued, please find further details and an application form at (join us page).
Application instructions: Please submit your application via My New Term https://mynewterm.com/jobs/101940/EDV-2025-GHS-09953.
Closing date: Monday 29th September 2025 at 9am
Further information: We reserve the right to close this vacancy early and without notice as applications will be shortlisted as they are received. Please apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered.
Greenford is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. Successful applicants will undergo mandatory pre-employment checks including reference checks from previous employment, criminal record check with the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS), and an occupational health medical fitness assessment.
