Head of Performing Arts

Bodmin College, Bodmin, Cornwall, PL31 1DD

11 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  1 September 2026

• Closing date

  1 March 2026 at 10:59pm

• Date listed

  13 February 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £32,916.00 - £51,048.00 Annually (FTE) TLR2B (£5,878)

Head of Performing Arts job summary

Role: Head of Performing Arts

Salary: MPS-UPS3 plus TLR 2B

Start Date: 1st September 2026

Contract: Full time

At Bodmin College, our mission is to provide a great quality of education so that every child can live a life full of choice and boundless opportunities.

We believe in the power of strong relationships - between students, their families, staff and the wider community - and that we become stronger by learning with and from each other.

Bodmin College is on a transformational journey to provide an inclusive and ambitious education for all learners.

In the last 12 months we:

• Improved A8 to be in line with national standards moving from 27th in Cornwall to 11th
• Are the top 10 school nationally for improvement in English A8
• Reduced fixed term suspensions by 68%
• Improved attendance by 3.61% and have been recently recognised as a high performing school within our similar schools

Our students are incredible and deserve the very best staff who are driven, compassionate and relentlessly positive in what we are seeking to achieve together. You will be joining a team who work collegiately together with a common purpose to achieve our goals.

Bodmin College is a warm, ambitious and forward-looking community school in the heart of Cornwall. We are part of Cornwall Education Learning Trust which means we have a strong culture of professional growth: we invest in our staff, encourage reflective practice and support you to become a great practitioner.

We are delighted to advertise for an inspirational Head of Department - Performing Arts to lead our Performing Arts faculty through the next stage of the exciting development of the arts at Bodmin College. The successful candidate will be an experienced subject specialist in one of the Performing Arts (Drama and Music) and will bring the drive and determination required to develop both the academic curriculum and the enrichment offer for our students.

Bodmin College has a proud history of excellence in the performing arts, and the successful candidate will have the skills and knowledge to continue this drive for excellence. Facilities in the performing arts at Bodmin College are outstanding and provide exciting opportunities to showcase our students’ talents.

As a Head of Department you will oversee a range of performing arts qualifications. We welcome applicants from all disciplines within the performing arts who believe they have the skills, knowledge and experience to lead both academic and enrichment excellence.

If you share our values and are passionate about enabling every child to succeed, we’d love to hear from you.

To discuss the role in more detail, please contact Laurie Goodlad, Assistant Headteacher lgoodlad@bodmin.celtrust.org

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

Bodmin College is committed to the care and wellbeing of children and young people. The successful applicant will be required to provide an enhanced DBS disclosure

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Bodmin College

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 1438 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Bodmin College website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/bodmin-college-bodmin

Bodmin College is a large 11-19 establishment (with Area Resource Base - ARB) providing, extensive, high quality education and care. We maintain high standards of achievement and traditional values within a disciplined and caring environment. Students are encouraged to enjoy their education, to develop respect for others and, through assuming responsibility, to develop as reliable and mature individuals ready to take an active role in adult life.

Our College is characterised by its vision of, ‘striving for excellence by putting the learner first’. We aim, in all that we do, to put students at the centre of our decision making processes and at the heart of our four key objectives which are:

• To improve the attainment and progress of all students in all subjects
• To improve the educational opportunities for all students in all subjects
• To improve the quality of the learning experience for all students in all subjects
• To assist and work in partnership with parents and carers to improve students’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development

This vision and our objectives are underpinned by an ethos in which we expect everyone, ‘to be kind, be polite, to be honest and to work to the very best of their ability.

With notable success as a finalists in the UK Social Mobility Awards for two consecutive years, we pride ourselves on opening doors, creating opportunity and raising aspirations.

More recently, our journey with the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust has seen our committed involvement in ‘The Framework for Excellence. A journey towards a world-class education system’. Within this structure, assessment has been robust and challenging, yet one in which we have been successfully recognised as providing ‘exceptional education’ through our ‘principled curriculum design’, ‘leadership through moral purpose’ and in our ‘climate for learning’ (SSAT, 2017). We have received national recognition for raising aspirations, removing barriers to social mobility and opening up world-class opportunities to our students.

Bodmin College has recently been invited to participate in the ‘Connect the Classroom’ scheme through the DfE. This scheme will see a significant investment in the IT infrastructure within the college to improve WiFi and connectivity throughout the college campus.

In addition, the college has also been successful in the exciting School Rebuilding Programme which will see another significant level of investment to improve the buildings on our site. We are hopeful that this award will assist us in continuing to develop the learning environment for all our students and staff. It is a long term project which will help us to deliver our vision for excellent education in the local area.

We achieve this only through the dedication, commitment, passion and hard work of our staff. Our staff body are valued and cared for and their wellbeing, professional development and input are important to us.

Please note that Bodmin College is not a sponsoring organisation. Therefore the successful applicant must already possess the right to work in the UK or be able to secure the right to work in the UK independently.

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