Drama Teacher
Outwood Academy Easingwold, York, YO61 3EF7 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2026
Closing date
6 May 2026 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
29 April 2026
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Subject
- Drama
Working pattern
- Full time: Full time with Part time considered.
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- MPS - UPS
What skills and experience we're looking for
Role:Teacher of Drama
Academy:Outwood Academy Easingwold
Start Date: 01/09/2026
Salary (Actual Salary):MPS to UPS. Experienced and Early Careers Teachers welcome.
Working Pattern:Full time with part time considered
Are you a dedicated and highly effective educator committed to raising the achievement of all students within your subject area? Join us as a Teacher, where you will be instrumental in delivering high-quality learning, utilising a range of teaching and learning strategies to ensure student success.
This position requires a professional who is aware of strategies for improving learning, understands curriculum developments, and is creative in finding solutions to enhance student performance.
Welcome from the Principal:
Thank you for your interest in the vacancy at Outwood Academy Easingwold.
It is a privilege to introduce you to our vibrant and successful school and Sixth Form, located in the delightful market town of Easingwold, North Yorkshire, near York and surrounded by beautiful countryside.
We are proud to serve an increasingly diverse community and maintain a unique, nurturing ‘family’ ethos. Our dedicated staff are driven by an unwavering commitment to securing strong outcomes. Our GCSE and A level results are consistently excellent, affording our young people the opportunity to achieve their future aspirations. We are passionate about encouraging personal development so students grow into confident, articulate citizens.
As part of the Outwood Family, a Trust renowned for transforming lives and raising standards, we would be delighted to welcome you to our friendly and supportive team if you share our passion for making a real difference.
Outwood Academy Easingwold is a very special place, and I look forward to meeting you
What the school offers its staff
About the Department:
We are delighted to be making an appointment for the position of Teacher of Drama for our high-achieving 11-18 academy in North Yorkshire. Outwood Academy Easingwold has the highest-performing Post 16 centre in North Yorkshire and GCSE results are the highest for non-selective schools, an achievement we are incredibly proud of.
Our academies offer a high quality of education for our students and excellent career progression and training for staff. Our driving ambition is Students First: Raising Standards and Transforming Lives.
As a teacher of Drama, you will join an established department that offers a wealth of expertise. You will become part of a very successful and friendly ‘Creative And Performing Arts’ faculty team, led by an experienced and supportive Head of Faculty with over 14 years of working in secondary schools and committed to driving standards to the next level within the faculty and across the trust.
The Drama department at Easingwold has two resourced rooms. Both classrooms have a lighting rig and these are used frequently at all key stages and highly effective episodes of guided practice to develop strong procedural knowledge and confidence for independent and deliberate practice. The established KS3 Drama curriculum is well planned and is designed as a progressive course that allows the teacher autonomy in the classroom to fulfill their potential. It fully prepares students for the KS4 qualifications giving experiences from physical theatre and facial expressions to specific practitioner focus such as Brecht to Artaud. The Drama Department offers the KS4 qualification of OCR Drama, giving students the opportunity to excel in their love and enthusiasm for Drama.
The department produces outstanding outcomes, with relentless ambition to improve on previous years. Many of our students go on to study Drama at college and university. In addition we have been successful in recent years within the OGAT ‘Outwood Performance of the Year’, this amazing evening sees musicians, actors and dancers from across the trust come together in a concert to celebrate the talents of.
We currently offer a wide range of enrichment activities for students across the faculty from Performing Arts Club and GCSE enrichment as well as Art Club, Photography Club and GCSE enrichment in Art as well as Choir, School of Rock and Concert Band. The faculty puts on two concerts a year as well as Battle of The Bands and a big production, normally a musical, and plays. This eclectic range of opportunities gives the students an amazing choice of extra-curricular experiences to really develop their knowledge, skills and cultural capital.
We are excited to meet a candidate who is able to continue our tradition of high quality concerts, musicals and plays and bring some fresh ideas to develop our offer for our students.
Teaching and learning is exceptionally led across the academy by a team of experienced SLT and middle leaders who ensure that the curriculum for our students will set them up for lifelong success.
The continuing professional development of staff is important here at Outwood Academy Easingwold. Staff have access to a wide range of CPD and the department is supported by a friendly and approachable Director.
Outwood Academy Easingwold offers:
- We are judged as Outstanding by Ofsted and the report published on 21st September 2022 said “Outwood Academy Easingwold is an aspirational and nurturing environment where pupils are encouraged to excel.Staff have the highest expectations of what pupils can achieve and ensure that they meet them.” They also stated "This is a caring community where pupils and staff value and appreciate each other." About our curriculum they wrote "The school’s ‘intrinsic’, ‘academic’, ‘enhancement’ and ‘elective’ curriculums combine to ensure that pupils receive an exceptional education."
- We are regularly ranked in the top 20 of ‘The Times’ top schools in the North.
- We offer a high quality of education for our students and excellent career progression and training for staff.
- We offer our colleagues extensive CPD opportunities.
- You will see the investment that has been put into the school infrastructure to provide an environment that is conducive to learning.
- You will find the staff and students friendly and welcoming.
- Free onsite parking.
If you share our vision, then why not join our family?
- To view the Teaching Staff recruitment booklet for Performing Arts, the job description and person specification please click on the apply link.
If you have any questions or would like to visit the school, please contact Darren Kenway, Head of Department via email on d.kenway@easingwold.outwood.com
Further information about the job
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
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on school website (opens in new tab)About Outwood Academy Easingwold
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 770 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Outwood Academy Easingwold website
- Email address
- g.gilchrist@easingwold.outwood.com
- Phone number
- 01347 821451
Arranging a visit to Outwood Academy Easingwold
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email g.gilchrist@easingwold.outwood.com.
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