DLS (Head of Department) - Drama

Arrow Vale High School, Redditch, B98 0GF

5 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  September, 2025

• Closing date

  20 May 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  14 May 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Subject: Drama
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: MPS/UPS + TLR2

DLS (Head of Department) - Drama job summary

Director of Learning and Standards (Head of Dept) – Drama

MPS (including UPS) + TLR 2

Required for September 2025

As a trust founded by the RSA, we have a very strong commitment to maintaining and developing the Creative and Performing Arts for all students. We require a well-qualified and enthusiastic professional to lead our dedicated and passionate Performing Arts team. This opportunity would suit experienced colleagues or colleagues looking for their first steps into Leadership within Performing Arts.

We are a school in the Central Regions School Trust, whose mission is social justice through exceptional schools. Therefore, this provides us with the opportunities, capabilities and desire to develop both our staff and students. We have a range of pathways and programmes tailored to the needs of staff at various levels of their career. These include Middle Leadership Programmes as well as a Senior Leader Development Programmes. This is an incredible opportunity to put your career on the path you want it to take and work alongside a team of highly effective practitioners and who have lots of experience of coaching and mentoring.

This is an extremely exciting time to join a highly motivated and successful team. As a school we achieved ‘Outstanding’ in all categories in 2014, 2018 and have maintained this standard in our most recent inspection in 2024 and combined with the collaborative ethos of staff and students, the Central Region Schools Trust is an innovative and highly rewarding place to teach.

Interested candidates who wish to have an informal conversation about this role are welcome to contact Mat Rash, Principal.

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 are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Arrow Vale High School

• School type: Academy, ages 13 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 866 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 13 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Arrow Vale High School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/arrow-vale-rsa-academy

Outstanding Ofsted rating, excellent CPD opportunities and highly experienced and supportive departments - just some of the reasons why RSA Academy Arrow Vale is the place to work...

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