Art Instructor
Harris Professional Skills Sixth Form, London, SE25 6EJThis job expired on 16 March 2023
Start date details
April
Closing date
16 March 2023 at 11:59pm
Date listed
16 November 2022
Job details
Job role
- Higher level teaching assistant
Subject
- View all Art and designjobs
Working pattern
- View all Full timejobs - Directed
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Unqualified Teacher Scale (Outer London)
Additional allowances
+ £1,500 Harris Allowance + Performance and Loyalty Bonus + Pension Scheme (TPS) + Harris Wellbeing Cash Plan + Additional Harris Benefits
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are currently looking to appoint an Art Instructor to support the teaching of Art at Harris Professional Skills Sixth Form.
Ideally, our successful candidate will have an understanding of vocational courses at Level 2 and 3, along with a desire to contribute across Key Stages 4 and 5. There are opportunities for the candidate to take on additional responsibility in pastoral provision and enrichment.
As Art Instructor, your responsibilities may include:
- Meeting on a regular basis with Art & Design Lead to coordinate lessons with Cambridge Technical Extended Diplomas in L3 Art classes.
- Operational and strategic planning (including lesson planning, developing resources and syllabuses, and contributing to the departmental plan)
- Curriculum planning
- Staff development (including continuing professional development and engaging fully in the Performance Management Review process)
- Quality assurance (including contributing to the process of monitoring and evaluating the subject area)
- Management of information (including maintaining appropriate records and tracking student progress)
- Communications with students, parents and other stakeholders
- Pastoral system (including being a form tutor to a selected group of students)
- Teaching, ensuring a high-quality learning experience for students
What the school offers its staff
Our art department delivers Cambridge Nationals L2 in Enterprise and Marketing, Creative iMedia, Science, Health & Social Care, P.E., and Cambridge Technical Extended Diplomas L3 in Art, Business, Health & Social Care, Science and Media.
We are a dynamic department who aspire for strong subject knowledge and the ability to invest in the future of our school community and to help develop students in becoming valued and respected members of society. We are in a unique position to broaden the curriculum in the near future to provide a wide range of courses and curriculum for students by providing them with choices for further education and employment.
Our people are at the heart of our success. We have developed a strong culture of collaboration and best practice, with professional development and career planning at its centre. We invest in our staff with support, coaching, mentoring, and a wide range of top-quality training programmes delivered at every level to senior leadership. We look for talented individuals who share our vision for creating exceptional places of learning, and are committed to ensuring that every child in London has access to the best possible education.
In addition to the opportunities for career progression, training and development, we also offer a competitive rewards and benefits package which includes our Harris Allowance for teachers on MPS/UPS, a Performance and Loyalty Bonus, Pension Scheme, electric car scheme, a Wellbeing Cash Plan and many other benefits.
Further details about the role
The appointed candidate will be working with curriculum leaders in a multi-disciplinary approach to teaching and should have a desire to add value to the departments, along with helping to develop and guide the young people we teach.
As Art Instructor, your responsibilities may include:
- Meeting on a regular basis with Art & Design Lead to coordinate lessons with Cambridge Technical Extended Diplomas in L3 Art classes.
- Operational and strategic planning (including lesson planning, developing resources and syllabuses, and contributing to the departmental plan)
- Curriculum planning
- Staff development (including continuing professional development and engaging fully in the Performance Management Review process)
- Quality assurance (including contributing to the process of monitoring and evaluating the subject area)
- Management of information (including maintaining appropriate records and tracking student progress)
- Communications with students, parents and other stakeholders
- Pastoral system (including being a form tutor to a selected group of students)
- Teaching, ensuring a high-quality learning experience for students
Commitment to safeguarding
About Harris Professional Skills Sixth Form
- School type
- Free School, ages 16 to 19
- Education phase
- View all Sixth form and collegejobs
- School size
- 183 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 16 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- info@harrisps6f.org.uk
- Phone number
- 020 3370 9238
Harris Professional Skills Sixth Form is a unique sixth form, established to provide an outstanding vocational education and preparation for skills-based work or transition to university for students in Croydon and the surrounding boroughs. Part of the Harris Federation, which runs highly successful primary and secondary academies across London, Harris Professional Skills Sixth Form caters for students who may not suit the traditional pathways at post-16. With small class sizes and strong pastoral support, we offer excellent, focused vocational options as well as the opportunity to take or resit GCSEs – whether students choose to progress into a career or higher education. Our academy offers a choice of Construction, Health and Social Care, Business, Media, Science and Art for students choosing a vocational pathway, and a curriculum that challenges and inspires them to develop the skills and confidence they need to compete successfully for jobs in their chosen vocation. Croydon, like much of London and the South East, is undergoing a huge programme of construction and regeneration with the potential to benefit the area for generations to come. With a focus on hard skills and employability, Harris Professional Skills Sixth Form helps students develop the skills they need to be who they want to be – and be part of that success.
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