Head of Department - Art (Maternity Cover 0.6FTE)

Beaconsfield High School, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, HP9 1RR

6 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  September 2025

• Closing date

  2 May 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  15 April 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Subject: Art & Design
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: MPS/UPS

Head of Department - Art (Maternity Cover 0.6FTE) job summary

Beaconsfield High School, an outstanding girls’ grammar school, has a rare opportunity for an energetic, highly motivated Head of Department - Art. We are looking for someone with the vision and ambition to inspire and enthuse students to enhance their interest in Art and lead a highly motivated and enthusiastic team. Come and join us, helping to shape the future of this successful and happy school community.

We seek an outstanding candidate to maintain and build upon this record of success. The post requires teaching across the Key Stages, inspiring and helping our students to enjoy the subject as much as possible. The Creative Arts Faculty is a strong team with a very good track record of examination success.

We are open to ideas that inspire and help our students to enjoy the subject as much as possible. We want to recruit someone who puts students first, proactively focuses on the development, sharing and monitoring of best practice to help across the school so that our students have the best educational opportunities and positive school experience. This is in line with our vision of being a “Happy, high achieving learning community”.

As an extremely successful, outstanding selective school, we would welcome applications from candidates with experience of different learning environments. In return we can offer wonderful students with a thirst for learning, a determined staff team and supportive governors who work very hard with the school.

For additional information, or to arrange a visit to our school, please contact Sarah Rivers via recruitment@beaconsfieldhigh.school

Closing Date: 9 am, Friday 2nd May 2025.

Interview Date: Week commencing 5th May 2025

Beaconsfield High School is committed to safeguarding the welfare of all of its students and staff. The successful candidate will have to meet the requirements of the person specification in order to be offered the post and will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory references. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified teachers regardless of age, gender, ethnicity or religion.

Commitment to safeguarding

Beaconsfield High School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. We are committed to recruiting candidates who share this commitment to safeguarding, and therefore we apply robust recruitment and selection procedures to ensure that the people selected are right for the job, and that all candidates are appropriately screened prior to appointment.

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About Beaconsfield High School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1249 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Beaconsfield High School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/beaconsfield-high-school-beaconsfield

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