Teacher of Spanish

Do you want to work at an ambitious school with bright, well behaved and engaged learners? Are you interested in helping students to gain a deeper understanding of themselves and the world around them? An exciting opportunity has arisen for a passionate and talented Teacher of Spanish to play a key role in shaping the curriculum of our outstanding, multi-faith school. This role would suit an experienced teacher, middle leader or an individual with experience of senior leadership within a school.

Unique features of this role are:

• The chance to work in one of the top performing all-through schools in England.
• A bespoke CPD package relevant to the successful candidate’s career stage.

Nishkam School West London is a flagship school for our Trust, offering all-through provision on an expansive 11-acre green site. Our students are bright, diligent and well mannered. The school achieved an Attainment 8 score 62.2 in the 2024/25 academic year. Our Attainment 8 of 68 for disadvantaged students placed us 1.5% of schools in the country for 2024/25. The school achieved an outstanding judgement across all areas in its full Section 5 inspection in January 2024. Opportunities like these are few and far between and will interest those with creative minds and high aspirations, seeking to inspire a new generation of children through a virtues-led, multi-faith curriculum. The journey will be one of leading your classes to excellence as the school grows to capacity, which will be immensely rewarding for the right individual.

Background: Nishkam School West London is an innovative, state of the art, all-through 4-19 school. Nishkam’s outstanding primary school opened in 2013 and the secondary opened in September 2018. The school is part of a highly successful Multi-Academy Trust (6 schools, 2 nurseries; 1 vocational college in Kenya).

• “Pupils are proud to attend this aspirational school. Pupils feel valued as individuals within the school community. The behaviour of pupils is exemplary. Pupils enjoy attending the extensive range of clubs and the well-thought-out experiences, trips, and visits. Leaders ensure that all pupils can fully participate in these activities.”
• “Leaders are relentless in their desire to improve the school. Staff feel that leaders are considerate of their workload and well-being. They are proud to work at this school.”
• “The school has extremely high expectations for pupils’ behaviour. These expectations are modelled by all staff consistently. Disruption to pupils’ learning across the school is rare because the curriculum and teaching are thoroughly engaging. As a result, pupils consistently strive to succeed.”
• “Pupils are taught to be good citizens through exceptional personal development programmes. Pupils learn the value of making a positive contribution to society. They have very positive attitudes towards people with different backgrounds.”

As a Teacher of Spanish at Nishkam School West London, you will work in a pioneering group, Nishkam School Trust (NST). NST is one of the first multi-academy free school trusts in the UK. The Trust has opened two free schools in Birmingham (a primary in 2011 and a secondary in 2012), both of which are judged Ofsted Outstanding, and a third, a primary free school in Wolverhampton. The Trust continues to expand and has recently welcomed a further two primary schools in Derby and Leeds into the Nishkam family. We are looking for a highly committed and innovative leader to work in close collaboration with other teachers in both the secondary and primary phases across the Trust.

The Role

The role will commence in Summer Term 2026. You will:

• have the rare opportunity to work collaboratively with primary colleagues and play a key role in developing the secondary phase Spanish curriculum
• have a strong voice in shaping the everyday practice of the school as we develop and embed our ethos and routines, especially in learning and teaching
• have the opportunity to share your expertise with other subject teachers across the Trust
• be part of a global community of charitable initiatives.

This is an exceptional opportunity to work within a vibrant atmosphere and a supportive setting. Our school is a welcoming space for students of faith and non-faith. This is also true of our staff body.

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