Head of Performing Arts
Walthamstow School for Girls, London, E17 9RZThis job expired on 13 May 2025 – see similar jobs
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
13 May 2025 at 9am
Date listed
2 May 2025
Job details
Job role
- Head of department or curriculum
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Subjects
- Drama, Music, Physical education
Working pattern
- Full time: 32.5 hours per week
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Main Scale - Upper Pay Scale
Additional allowances
TLR1B = £12,038.00 PER ANNUM
What skills and experience we're looking for
Head of Performing Arts
TLR 1B
Required for September 2025
- Would you like the opportunity to develop your leadership skills and inspire colleagues with your passion for the performing arts?
- Are you an inspirational teacher with a genuine passion for Music?
- Do you enjoy sharing your enthusiasm for the subject with students, both within and beyond the classroom?
We are looking to appoint a talented and highly motivated leader who will relish the chance to lead this successful and committed department. As a member of our Performing Arts faculty, you will be instrumental in developing the music, drama and PE curriculum so that it reflects the aspirations and diversity of our community, as well as inspiring students through your classroom practice. Committed to ‘bringing out the gift’ in every student, you will continue to develop our extra-curricular provision, including our nationally renowned steep pan band, choirs and orchestra. External candidates must be able to teach and lead in Music up to KS4
You would be joining an innovative and vibrant team. Keen to build upon our existing examination successes, you will have a bold and ambitious vision of what our students can achieve. Your excellent subject knowledge and innovative classroom practice will help to inspire our students with your own love of learning. You will be committed to leading, developing and maintaining high standards of teaching and learning at Key Stages 3 and 4 and will enjoy the challenge of ensuring that all pupils achieve their full potential.
Walthamstow School for Girls is a wonderful place to work, learn, teach and lead. We are passionate about education being a vehicle for promoting equality for all and our mission is to empower young women to become leaders of the future. We are a truly comprehensive school, proud of our diversity and committed to social justice.
An application form and further details can be downloaded from the school website www.wsfg.waltham.sch.uk Completed application forms should be returned by email to: recruitment@wsfg.waltham.sch.uk Please note CVs will not be accepted.
Closing date: Tuesday 13th May 2025 (9.00am)
Interview dates: Friday 16th May and week commencing Monday 19th May 2025
Walthamstow School for Girls is committed to Equal Opportunities and to Safer Recruitment practices and procedures.
Walthamstow School for Girls is committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children and young people. The successful candidate applicant will be required to undertake an Enhanced DBS Disclosure.
What the school offers its staff
Other benefits of working here:
- One of the lowest teaching time contact ratios in London, demonstrating that we have chosen to invest in our staff
- An understanding that work-life balance is important, including a commitment to staff wellbeing in our School Improvement Plan
- In addition to making allowances for staff to have cover for family events, we have been piloting a whole school approach to flexible working which will be rolled out across the school in 2025 – 26, providing most staff with the opportunity to work flexibly during PPA time at least once per fortnight
- Home and Family weeks: termly non-meeting weeks throughout the year to support with reduced workload and staff wellbeing
- No report writing
- Beautiful school grounds, including staff terrace (in summer!)
- The possibility of flexible working contracts (37% of our staff are part-time)
- Regular wellbeing surveys and wellbeing slots in staff meetings; member of SLT with responsibility for staff wellbeing
- 97% of staff say the school is a happy and enjoyable place to work; 95% feel their professional contribution is valued; 73% feel they have a good work-life balance. This compares very favourably with the TES national Wellbeing report where only 20% of staff felt their workload was manageable.
- Employee Assistance: free 24-hour confidential counselling, help and information service
- Staff organised activities including a running club, yoga and Boxfit exercise sessions
- Cycle 2 work scheme
- Staff working in schools in Waltham Forest, regularly using computers, are eligible to apply for reimbursement towards some of the costs associated with eye tests and glasses
- Free on-site parking
- Lunch or breakfast provided on INSET days
- Free tea and coffee in the staff room
- Staff benefit from preferential admission criteria for their daughters.
Commitment to safeguarding
Walthamstow School for Girls is committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children and young people. The successful candidate will be required to undertake an Enhanced DBS Disclosure.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Walthamstow School for Girls
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 895 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Walthamstow School for Girls website
- Email address
- recruitment@wsfg.waltham.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 02085099446
Walthamstow School for Girls is a mainstream, non-denominational secondary school for girls aged 11-16. It is situated in Walthamstow, East London, and it has 900 pupils on its roll.
Walthamstow School for Girls' motto is “Neglect not the gift that is thee”. The secondary school has an exceptional track record of academic excellence, which is achieved through high expectations, inspirational teaching and learning experiences.
The school offers strong pastoral support, plus regular monitoring, target setting and dialogue with students and parents/carers. It is consistently among the top-performing non-selective schools in the country and the pupils take great pride in their school.
Walthamstow School for Girls is a wonderful place to work, learn, teach and lead. We are passionate about education being a vehicle for promoting equality for all and our mission is to empower young women to become leaders of the future. We are a truly comprehensive school, proud of our diversity and committed to social justice.
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