LORD
WANDSWORTH
COLLEGE
·HAMPSHIRE·
Lord Wandsworth College Spanish Language Assistant
Candidate Pack
Role Profile
Responsible to:
Head of Spanish
Location:
On Campus
Contract:
Permanent, Part time, Term time only
Hours:
23.5 hours per week
Salary:
£15.64 per hour (£12,134 annual salary)
Benefits
We offer a vast range of staff benefits including:
• Contributory pension scheme
• Fee remission for children
• Enhanced family friendly policies including support for emergency time off for Dependants
• Friends and Family referral scheme (£250 for each referral)
• State of the art, restaurant quality hot and cold food available
• Give as you earn and staff volunteering day
• Death in service scheme - 4 times your annual salary
• Use of wide-ranging school facilities - swimming pool, tennis, walks, trails etc
• Excellent social and sporting events for staff within the school
Role outline and purpose
The Spanish Language Assistant will support the teaching of Spanish throughout the school, enhancing students’ oral proficiency, cultural understanding, and enthusiasm for the language. This role will offer 1-2-1 and small group practice to complement classroom learning. The Spanish Assistant will be timetabled to join a teacher for certain lessons so that they have contact with every Spanish class, and sometimes asked to help with speaking assessments.
Most of the tasks asked of the Spanish Assistant will be devised in liaison with the class teacher, but you may also be asked to devise and prepare resources.
Role responsibilities
To give weekly individual lessons of 25 minutes to each 6th form student of Spanish
• Contribute to the development of intercultural understanding through co-curricular activities such as language clubs or cultural events.
• To prepare resources for the department as required
• To provide support with other areas of school life such as co-curricular activities as required
Assist teachers during lessons when appropriate, especially in speaking and listening tasks
• Maintain records of sessions, attendance, and progress as directed
• Attend departmental meetings when requested
• Share insights into contemporary Hispanic culture and current affairs to enrich classroom content
Person Specification
• An ability to communicate effectively with staff at all levels
• Excellent literacy and numeracy skills
• Ability to multi-task and prioritise workload
• Organised and able to work on own initiative as well as part of a team
• Strong communication skills
Behaviours and competencies
• Have the right to work in the UK
• Hold a strong understanding of the importance of Safeguarding and Child Protection
• Be proactive in matters relating to health and safety
• Demonstrates a commitment to the values and pillars of LWC and Diversity and Inclusion Practices
Key Stakeholders
• MFL Teachers
• Pupils
• Head of Spanish
Lord Wandsworth College
A different kind of school for a wonderfully open world
Uncertainty is a gift to those with a wide perspective, an open mind and the space and the safety to explore. Our job is to widen students’ worlds so nothing is beyond their grasp.
We’ve been ‘widening worlds’ since 1922, when LWC was founded by Sydney Stern (Lord Wandsworth) to support orphans. In those days, this widening of worlds was very much a response to the fact that orphans’ worlds had contracted or collapsed very suddenly. The school expanded their opportunities, connecting them - via our vast acreage and farmland - with a path into agriculture.
These days, the future is far less known; vocations harder to predict. And so the need to widen worlds is more profound. We support and inspire students, around 700 of them, to be able to forge their own futures, each one more exciting and extraordinary than any goal they could have envisaged at the start. Wonderfully, our students’ successes make our world bigger too.
Appointment process and how to apply
Please apply via our LWC website using the iTrent platform.
The closing date for application is Tuesday 23rd June with interviews taking place on Tuesday 30th June 2026.
Should you wish to discuss the role in strict confidence please feel free to contact our Deputy Head Academic, Angela Watson on watsonan@lordwandsworth.org
We welcome people of all faiths and those that are committed to these values. We recognise that we have under-represented groups within our workforce. As part of our commitment to diversity and equality of opportunity we are actively encouraging applications from underrepresented groups such as returning parents or carers who are re-entering work after a career break, people who are LGBT+, from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds, with a disability, impairment, learning difference or long-term condition, with caring responsibilities, from different nations and regions and those with a lived experience of poverty as well as any other under-represented group in our workforce. We are committed ensuring the safety and protection of our employees from all forms of harm.
Appointments will be made subject to receipt of satisfactory references and enhanced DBS check. The College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people. The successful applicant will be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Services (DBS) check and references. We are an equal opportunities employer.
Lord Wandsworth College is a registered charity (Number: 1143359) providing outstanding caring education for boys and girls since 1912.