Art Teacher - Maternity Cover

Aylesbury High School, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, HP21 7SX

14 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  14 May 2026 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  30 April 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Subject: Art and design
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: MPS/UPS
• Additional allowances:

  MPS/UPS

Art Teacher - Maternity Cover job summary

You will play a key role in providing an excellent art education by teaching with expertise and enthusiasm and supporting the learning of individual students. Teaching is across the 11-18 range, through a variety of media and disciplines including painting, drawing, printing, photography, digital art, textiles art and alternative media, and you will engage students in an imaginative way through teaching Art, Craft and Design from historical and contemporary sources.

The post would suit an Early Careers Teacher or one with more experience. Above all, we are looking for an excellent classroom practitioner to inspire our students by teaching with expertise and enthusiasm. The successful applicant will almost certainly act as a form tutor.

This thriving and successful department consists of 2 full- and 1 part-time teacher alongside a part-time Art Technician. The department is housed within three purpose-built Art rooms, with specialist facilities for Ceramics. The school operates a successful 1:1 scheme so students from Years 7 - 11 are equipped with their own Chromebooks whilst A Level students are able to use their own devices to facilitate learning. Students also have access to some iPads with Procreate on them and digital drawing pens.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Aylesbury High School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 1358 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Aylesbury High School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/aylesbury-high-school-aylesbury

Aylesbury High School (AHS) is a forward-thinking girls’ grammar school that values both academic and pastoral excellence and co-curricular opportunities with the vision of developing uniquely talented young adults, who are independent, strong and confident.
We create a welcoming environment which draws the very best from all in our community, achieved by providing an ambitious education that stimulates creative and critical thinking, values diversity and facilitates dynamic personal development.
The AHS values are Confidence, Respect, Engagement, Aspiration, Teamwork and Enjoyment and we want all in our community to experience, develop and demonstrate these characteristics both within the curriculum and through our extensive co-curricular offering.

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