Full Time Teacher of Art (Photography/Graphics specialism)
Hillview School for Girls, Tonbridge, Kent, TN9 2HE5 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
28 February 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
12 February 2025
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Subject
- Art and design
Working pattern
- Full time: Full/Part Time
Contract type
- Fixed term - Up to one year - Maternity or parental leave cover
Pay scale
- MPS/UPS
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are seeking to appoint a highly skilled Teacher of Art with an ability to teach either/and/ or Graphics/Photography to KS4/KS5. The successful candidate will need to deliver high quality lessons while successfully nurturing and inspiring our students. As part of our energetic and welcoming team, you will enthuse and motivate students to strive for success and produce exceptional outcomes. The successful candidate should be skilled in the Adobe suite and/or be willing to develop their knowledge in the software. Experience with photography studio equipment and confidence using DSLR cameras and/or dark room photography desirable.
What the school offers its staff
Do you want to be part of a community that values the Arts and places both performing and visual arts at the heart of the school ethos? Hillview School for Girls is a popular, high achieving, non-selective school based in Tonbridge, Kent. Working for us will give you the opportunity to work alongside enthusiastic subject specialists and engage with creative pedagogical development.
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
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to dennetta@hillview.kent.sch.uk
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Hillview School for Girls
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1532 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Hillview School for Girls website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- dennetta@hillview.kent.sch.uk
Hillview School for Girls is a large non-selective, single-sex school with a co-educational Sixth Form. The school is oversubscribed and is highly popular within the local area, attracting students from all ability ranges, with an interest in creative subjects, a supportive pastoral ethos and high expectations. We are a high-attaining Single Academy Trust with attainment being amongst the top non-selectives in Kent and performing within the top 10% of all schools nationally based on Progress 8 in 2018. The school is proud of its Performing Arts Specialism and has a long-standing record of high achievement in these subjects and across the curriculum over many years. Ofsted visited in 2018 and the school achieved a Good grading, the school is well on it’s way to Outstanding. Our belief is around the pure potential and possibility of the child. Our vision is that “Students unlock their pure potential to drive their future and thrive in society”. We believe that our students can achieve highly and can be successful, we do not limit their success and support our students to believe in themselves and reach for the very highest standards. To achieve this we maintain a supportive, respectful environment where we all work together to make Hillview the very best it can be. We have focused and calm learning environments, where students come to learn and teachers can teach, with a robust behaviour management system to support where needed.
As a school we value a broad and flexible curriculum. We do not limit our students to studying the EBACC and allow a relatively free choice across GCSEs and one of the widest range of subject offers at KS5. We believe that students should be able to study the subjects where they are able to succeed and thrive and actively support skills and knowledge development within all areas of study. We offer a wide range of opportunities and believe that it is through engagement within these opportunities that the students can show most growth and development personally. This is supported through our PDL curriculum that runs throughout the school and supports the students in understanding themselves, the world around them and how to manage their lives. This includes a strong careers programme that aids learners in making choices for the future through well-planned and provisioned careers workshops.
Our expanding Sixth Form is successful and popular, with students choosing our provision for many reasons: the performing or creative subjects, for a range of academic studies or for the breadth of choice. Students’ progress to universities, specialist performing arts and creative arts college/schools, apprenticeships and employment.
Arranging a visit to Hillview School for Girls
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email dennetta@hillview.kent.sch.uk.
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