Director of Performing and Creative Arts
Devonport High School for Boys, Plymouth, Devon, PL1 5QPThis job expired on 19 May 2022
Job start date
1 September 2022
Closing date
19 May 2022 at 9am
Date listed
3 May 2022
Job details
Job role
- Head of year or phase
- Head of department or curriculum
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subjects
- Drama, Music
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- MPS/UPS
Additional allowances
TLR £8,411
Director of Performing and Creative Arts job summary
Director of Performing and Creative Arts
Full time - MPS/UPS + TLR £8,411
We have a unique and exciting opportunity for an inspirational teacher and leader to make a significant impact across the wider school and local community in the area of performing arts.
We are seeking to appoint an experienced, ambitious and proven successful leader of Drama or Music, who wishes to develop their leadership potential, to transform our school and local community in the performing, creative and cultural arts.
This is an exciting opportunity to teach Drama or Music on a reduced timetable whilst being given significant time and resources to lead on the whole school development of performing, creative and cultural arts. The successful candidate will also line manage the Art, Drama and Music Departments.
The successful candidate will:
be an outstanding teacher with proven leadership skills at department level who can demonstrate a track record of high academic outcomes at KS4 and KS5 and high levels of retention of students numbers in their subject.
be able to inspire students, staff and the wider community to increase participation in extra-curricular opportunities in performing, creative and cultural arts.
lead with exceptional interpersonal and organisational skills and build on their own strong networks of local and national practitioners.
Please contact the Headteacher, Dan Roberts, at headteacher@dhsb.org for an informal discussion about the role or to arrange a visit.
The closing date is 9.00am on 19 May 2022 and interviews will be held the following week.
This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
“Devonport High School for Boys is an outstanding school
and has an outstanding capacity for sustained development.”
Ofsted February 2011
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.
About Devonport High School for Boys
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 1238 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- sarah.nicholson@dhsb.org
- Phone number
- 01752 208787
Devonport High School for Boys is a happy and vibrant grammar school for boys aged 11-18.
Our vision, whatever your role in the school or personal ambition, is that ‘Everyone Succeeds’.
Arranging a visit to Devonport High School for Boys
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email sarah.nicholson@dhsb.org.
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