The Tower Hamlets MFL Service works with a number of a primary schools across the borough, and has been providing schools with specialist Language Tutors for over 10 years. Due to increased demand from schools, we are expanding the team of tutors and we are seeking to appoint native speakers of French/Spanish/Italian/German/Mandarin to fulfill long-term contracts teaching their language specialism in primary schools. Fluent speakers of these languages with appropriate qualifications would also be considered for the role.

Experience of teaching languages to younger learners and/or working with children in an educational setting is desirable although training will be provided for successful candidates.

Tower Hamlets is a culturally diverse and language-rich borough where the vast majority of schools are Ofsted rated Good or Outstanding. If you are an energetic and enthusiastic linguist keen to teach motivated pupils in our unique borough, you are encouraged to apply for this position.

Please note, an enhanced DBS check is required for this role.

“Tower Hamlets vision for our borough is that: people are

aspirational, independent and have equal access to opportunities; we are a

borough that our residents are proud of and love to live in; and we are a

dynamic, outcomes-based council using digital innovation and partnership

working to respond to the changing needs of our borough. We want people who

aspire to our TOWER values: Together; Open; Willing; Excellent; Respect.

Tower Hamlets has a zero-tolerance approach to, and works

to eradicate, all forms of discrimination on the basis of race, sex,

disability, age, religion or belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment,

marital status, status as a civil partner, gender, gender identity, gender

expression, pregnancy and maternity and looks to employ a diverse workforce

representative of those groups. We recognise that people can also be

disadvantaged by their social and economic circumstances, so we will work to

eliminate discrimination and disadvantage caused by social class.