Art Teacher
The Ropemakers' Academy, Hailsham, East Sussex, BN27 1FB10 days remaining to apply
Start date details
1st September 2026
Closing date
31 July 2026 at 12am (midnight)
Date listed
21 July 2026
Job details
Job role
- Teacher or lecturer
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full time equivalent salary
- 32,916 FTE - £45,352 FTE. Teachers Main payscale M1 - M6 (East Sussex)
Art Teacher job summary
We are seeking an experienced Art Teacher to join our team at The St. George’s House, Brighton.
The post is for 2 days a week plus 1.5 hours of CPD.
Information about the School
St. George’s House is a new satellite key stage 4 provision, linked to The Ropemakers School in Hailsham. It offers a nurturing, inclusive environment for twenty pupils with SEMH
and associated needs. We have high expectations for each child to leave as a confident young adult who is well prepared for their post-16 journey and the future.
St. George’s is an innovative project developed in close partnership with Brighton and Hove County Council. St. George’s delivers outstanding
education and care focusing on offering pupils the opportunity to build their resilience for the rest of their lives. There will be an emphasis on improving emotional, academic, vocational and physical skills leading to meaningful, sustainable outcomes for life.
What will St. George’s offer?
✓ Access to high quality teaching and specialist facilities
✓ A small, safe and nurturing environment, where children can thrive and develop.
✓ Bespoke alternative education programmes.
✓ Access to a range of realistic accreditation and training opportunities including a new vocational programme delivered in conjunction with local providers that will provide a supportive bridge into work.
✓ A supported and enriched programme of work experience and employability
✓ A planned and smooth transition from the world of secondary education into further education and training.
✓ A range of qualifications in core subjects including City and Guilds, Functional skills, GCSE (AQA) and ASDAN
✓ Additional therapeutic support and a named work coach
St. George’s will relentlessly drive for success, celebrate achievement and promote a climate of possibility. All members of our community will be kind, polite and respectful and have the
opportunity to access stand-out education and care that will provide the platform for meaningful outcomes and improved life chances. The curriculum presents formal, informal and enriched opportunities for development and progress. This enables the children who graduate from Beckmead to become independent, connected members of the communities where they live and the workplaces that may employ them.
As part of the Beckmead Trust, our ethos involves close collaboration with Brighton and Hove, specialist and mainstream schools, outside specialist agencies with enhanced knowledge of our children’s needs and the private, voluntary and charity sectors within the communities in which we work.
If you share our vision of Love, Flourishing, Community and Social Justice. and if you have a desire to make a real difference to the lives of children in Brighton and Hove, we would welcome an application from you.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
The Beckmead Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children and young people so expect all staff, volunteers and contractors, to share this commitment. As part of our safeguarding commitment, appointment to any post is subject to receipt of satisfactory references, medical clearance (including the ability to participate in Physical Intervention), satisfactory Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check as well as evidence of the right to live and work in the United Kingdom. We will also carry out an online search on shortlisted candidates to help identify any incidents/issues which are publicly available online.
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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About The Ropemakers' Academy
- Organisation type
- Free School, ages 4 to 16
- Size
- 115 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
The Ropemakers school is set in a wonderful, expansive and picturesque site in the Sussex town of Hailsham. The name comes from the rich rope making history associated with the town, which originated in the early nineteenth century.
Hailsham itself is a market town set just north of Eastbourne and has good road links from the A22 and A27 and is a lovely area is, and we intend to make full use of our surroundings to enrich our curriculum offer.
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