Job Description

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The King's School, Canterbury
13/07/2025


Mandarin Language Assistant


The job requirements are detailed below. Where applicable the skills, qualifications and memberships required for this job have also been included.


Job details

Salary

21.97 per hour inclusive of holiday pay.

Contractual hours

15

Basis

Part Time

Job category/type

MFL

Date posted

03/07/2025

Job reference

VAC00532




One year fixed term
contract initially from 1 September 2025



The King's School Mandarin Department is
looking to appoint a talented and inspiring Mandarin Language
Assistant who is passionate about Mandarin and dedicated to
maximising student outcomes.



The King's School has a strongly academic
curriculum that is continually adapting to the changing demands
of modern education. With almost all pupils going on to
university, there is an emphasis on scholarly excellence, but
through regular monitoring of academic progress and educational
support for those experiencing difficulties with their learning,
the aim is to enable every individual to make the most of their
abilities and to fulfil their potential. There is a strong sense
of community in what is a mainly boarding school. The King's
School is a very special place where opportunities abound and
individuals matter. Our community is lively and creative, where
everyone can grow up safely and securely and where individuals
enjoy the success of others as much as they enjoy their own
triumphs. King's is a happy and vibrant school, in which the
energy and spirit of the pupils match the exceptional
environment.



The hours for this post will vary depending
on pupil numbers, but usually average approximately 15 hours a
week, and the post involves leading individual and group
conversation classes at A Level (Lower and Upper Sixth form) and
GCSE, working closely with students to help develop their
language skills, knowledge, cultural capital, and fluency. There
is also the opportunity to support bilingual Mandarin students
looking to extend their cultural knowledge, and to work towards
examinations. The Mandarin language assistant will work closely
with classroom teachers to help pupils prepare for public
examinations, focusing chiefly on the speaking component.



Languages play an integral role at King's,
with a healthy uptake at GCSE and A Level. Our pupils aim for
academic excellence and the language assistants play a vital role
in preparing them for their examinations, as well as developing
their fluency and love for the language.



If you have questions about the post,
please contact recruitment@kings-school.co.uk

For further

Current Job Vacancies &slshquot; The King's School,
Canterbury



Closing date for receipt of applications:

13 July 2025.

Interviews will take place on

18 July 2025

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The King's
School is committed to ensuring the highest levels of
safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils, and we
expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We
adopt a fair, robust and consistent recruitment process which is
in line with the statutory Keeping Children Safe in Education
guidance. This includes online checks for shortlisted
candidates.


All offers of
employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references, and
where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check.
Mandarin Language Assistant