Head of Faculty: Performing Arts
Villiers High School, Southall, Middlesex, UB1 3BT2 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2024 (or negotiable with the successful applicant)
Closing date
29 April 2024 at 9am
Date listed
28 March 2024
Job details
Job role
- Head of department or curriculum
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Subjects
- Drama, Music
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Between £48,851 and £69,065
Additional allowances
TLR1b
What skills and experience we're looking for
- Do you love Drama and Music?
- Do you want to be an integral part of invigorating the Arts in Southall through redesigning the curriculum and opportunities in Performing Arts at Villiers?
- Do you want to work at an inclusive, secular school determined to be the beating heart of its community?
- Do you strongly believe that equity, diversity and inclusion are important to achieving a world-class education?
- Do you want to be part of a learning community with huge aspirations for itself and its students?
Would you like the opportunity to develop in a key middle leadership role? We invite applications for an inclusive Head of Performing Arts able to teach and lead all age and prior attainment ranges within Drama and Music to join a friendly and well-resourced department.
Villiers High School is a vibrant, multicultural school located in the heart of the community of Southall in the London Borough of Ealing. We are committed to high standards of teaching and believe strongly in inclusion in every sense of the word.We place a high value on staff professional learning and it is at the centre of our work.The post holder would join a well-informed and ambitious staff and would benefit from extensive training and development opportunities.
Full details of the post can be found in the job description and person specification.
What the school offers its staff
- A huge suite of professional learning opportunities in school and use our PMR system combined with staff aspirations to construct this. Staff are encouraged and supported financially to become examination markers and to carry out extra qualifications such as the NPQ* suite, Master’s Degrees and Doctorates. All teams belong to their professional subject association in order to continue developing their subject knowledge and pedagogy. Middle and Senior Leaders regularly meet with their counterparts from other schools in the local authority to collaborate and share best practice as part of the Ealing Learning Partnership.*National Professional Qualifications including NPQML, NPQSL and NPQH.
- Staff are able to take one wellbeing day per term to spend as they wish on their wellbeing beyond the teachers’ terms and conditions as agreed by the London Borough of Ealing.
- On Thursdays staff finish teaching early so they can meet and plan collaboratively with their departments and pastoral teams. Staff professional learning also takes place on this day as do other after school meetings and events such as parents evenings so that staff only ever have to plan child-care or a late finish one night of the week in the main. Where meetings or events run later in the evening we provide a meal for all staff.
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 HR@villiers.ealing.sch.uk
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Villiers High School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 1484 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Villiers High School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- HR@villiers.ealing.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 020 881 38001
Arranging a visit to Villiers High School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email HR@villiers.ealing.sch.uk.
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