Cardinal Heenan Catholic High School is a vibrant, thriving and leading school in the local area. (1333 on roll with a Sixth Form of 173) and our long history and excellent community links provide our students with exceptional opportunities.
We are extremely proud of our 2026 Ofsted inspection, which highlights Cardinal Heenan Catholic High School as an inclusive and respectful community where pupils feel safe, valued and supported to succeed. Inspectors described the school as “an incredibly welcoming place where all pupils feel valued” and praised the “calm and respectful environment,” noting that pupils are “enthusiastic participants in lessons and school life,” benefiting from high expectations rooted in our values of respect, believe and achieve. The report also recognises the quality of teaching, stating that “teachers have a clear understanding of the skills and knowledge that pupils need” and that “staff use their subject knowledge well to adapt tasks so that all pupils… can participate in lessons.”
Inspectors highlighted our strong commitment to inclusion, noting that leaders have created “a highly inclusive culture where pupils are well known, cared for and supported,” alongside a well‑planned curriculum and a broad personal development programme that prepares pupils for life beyond school. Leadership was commended for maintaining strong standards in behaviour and attendance and for driving improvement, while our Catholic ethos continues to underpin the strong sense of community identified in both this inspection and our 2023 CSI report, which described the school’s valued “sense of family.”
We are seeking to appoint an innovative, enthusiastic and ambitious Teacher of Spanish. We require someone who is passionate about languages and teaching. Our success as a school is known to be rapidly improving and in particular our MFL department is a proud asset of our strong and cohesive school community.
Over recent years, our established and committed team have nurtured our students into highly studious and enthusiastic linguists. We have a large and growing uptake for GCSE Spanish and are proud of our persistently strong outcomes at every level. We have a reputation for success in the local area and, for several years now, have proudly achieved GCSE results that have allowed many of our students to continue studying languages in the future.
As well as our strong curriculum model, we also offer a wide range of extra-curricular activities and opportunities for our students to practise their language skills outside of the classroom. These include residential visits and student exchanges and also visits in the local area such as Latin theatre, Spanish cuisine and university workshops.
The successful candidate will teach KS3 and KS4 across a range of starting points and with some students with varied special educational needs. There may also be the opportunity to teach Spanish at KS5 in the future. Our team works collaboratively in the planning and development of our curriculum which means that the successful candidate will work in a team sharing ideas and planning an area of the curriculum. This has been really powerful in reducing our workload within the department.
How to apply:
This role is full time. If this advert incorporates your strengths and interests, and you wish to be part of our extremely successful and constantly evolving team, then please see the job description, person specification, application form, child protection policy, code of conduct – Safer working practice guidance, Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 form, consent to obtain reference form and model reasonable adjustments statement
Email application forms and covering letters to Lynn Lewington (l.lewington@cardinal-heenan.org.uk) by 12noon, Thursday, 15th October 2026 with interview to take place in the week commencing Monday, 19th October 2026.
Applicants who have lived or worked overseas should obtain an overseas criminal check before applying for a visit as the post is in the education sector.
Our school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment to keeping children safe. Any offer of employment will be subject to statutory pre-employment checks, including satisfactory references and Enhanced DBS and Barred-List checks. This post is exempt from the provision of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (as amended in 2013 & 2020) and shortlisted candidates will be required to disclose any relevant criminal history prior to interview.
The amendments to the ROA 1974 (Exceptions Order 1975, (amended 2013 and 2020)) provide that when applying for certain jobs and activities, certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. The MOJ’s guidance on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975, provides information about which convictions must be declared during job applications and related exceptions and further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide
To apply for this job please visit: www.cardinal-heenan.org.uk.
Please mention catholicrecruitment.co.uk when applying.