Spanish As a Foreign Language Teacher (Secondary) …, Castelldefels

**Job type**: Full Time, Permanent

**Start date**: September 2025

24 January 2025

**Job overview**: **About the School
- The British School of Barcelona**

The British School of Barcelona (BSB) is a great school in a wonderful location. We are an HMC school and were judged by a recent BSO (British Schools Overseas) inspection to be outstanding in every area, including quality of education, safeguarding, pupil welfare and academic outcomes.

BSB is a large, very popular school for children aged 3 to 18. Our curriculum is based on the English National Curriculum, and we offer a wide range of GCSEs, A levels and the International Baccalaureate Diploma, all alongside a significant enrichment programme.

Over 2000 pupils from more than 74 nationalities attend the school and over 315 staff work at BSB. We are based in three locations, two just outside the city of Barcelona
- in Castelldefels, where we have a Primary, Secondary and Pre-University campus, and in the cosmopolitan town of Sitges, where we have another Primary campus. BSB City is in the heart of the city of Barcelona itself with a Foundation campus (built September 2021), and a brand-new main campus which opened in September 2023.

The growth of the school has been accompanied by significant investment over recent years, including the building of a state-of-the art Pre-University Centre (Nexus), a full-sized 4G rugby and football pitch, dedicated STEM facilities and the new BSB City campuses.

Barcelona is a wonderful place to live, combining an amazing city with beach and mountains nearby. The quality of life is excellent with a mild climate and year-round sunshine.

The school now has an exciting opportunity for an experienced **Spanish as a Foreign Language Teacher** to join our fantastic team.

**About Cognita**

Cognita is a general leader in independent education. Founded in 2004, we are a growing community of 100+ schools in 16 countries
- in Europe, North America, Latin America, Asia and the Middle East
- serving more than 85,000 students. Each of our schools are proudly unique, however our collective purpose is to create an environment where everyone can, ‘Thrive in a rapidly evolving world’.

At Cognita, we know every student is unique. We nurture their distinct personalities and strengths. We support them academically, socially, and emotionally, wherever they are in the world, wherever they’re starting from. And each and every one of our schools is unique too.

We protect what’s special about them, while offering them rich knowledge, opportunities, and best practices. And they get to be part of something bigger. We open their classrooms to the collective wisdom of over 100 schools in 16 countries, ensuring every child gets an education that’s, quite literally, world class.

It’s an individual approach that empowers every school, teacher and student to focus on what they do best and thrive.

**About the role**

We are looking for a Secondary Spanish Teacher with experience in either A Level or IBDP Language A or B. They should be experienced at working with 2nd language learners in year groups 7 to 11. A knowledge of the IGCSE course would be helpful.

We are offering a full-time, permanent contract to work in our Castelldefels campus.

As a BSB teacher you will be expected to follow the guidelines set out in the Cognita Teaching Toolkit. This includes clear expectations for planning, assessment, relationships, lesson delivery and wider professional duties.

You will also be expected to contribute towards helping to deliver the whole school strategic priorities. You will be expected to do anything reasonable required by the Headteacher and Principal.

**1. Teaching responsibilities**

**2. Wider faculty contribution**

Support the delivery of the vision for your Faculty and BSB more widely. This should translate into high quality learning sequences which engage students, develop student knowledge and skills and help students to become independent learners. Support the collaborative planning within your Faculty, developing an exciting and engaging curriculum. Support robust and formative assessment systems within your Faculty and support the programme for intervention. Contribute towards professional development conversations of others within your team and actively seek opportunities for your own personal development.

**3. Other responsibilities**

To continue your personal development and participate in the school’s staff development programme. To engage actively with the school’s performance management programme. To attend staff meetings, open evenings, and parents’ evenings. To attend morning assemblies and staff morning briefing unless on duty. As a tutor you should support the pastoral care for your form group, seeking to help individuals’ character development.

To view a full job description, **click here.**

**Who we are looking for**:

- Qualification: Bachelors Degree and QTS or international equivalent essential.
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