Head of the Performing Arts
Nunnery Wood High School, Worcester, Worcestershire, WR5 2LT22 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
6 March 2026 at 3pm
Date listed
12 February 2026
Job details
Job role
- Head of department or curriculum
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Main scale to UPS plus AP12
Additional allowances
AP12 £8526
What skills and experience we're looking for
Experience
- Leadership and management experience in a school
- Involvement in school self-evaluation and development planning
- Demonstrable experience of successful line management and staff development
Skills and knowledge
- Understanding of high-quality teaching, and the ability to model this for others and support others to improve
- Effective communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to communicate a vision and inspire others
- Ability to build effective working relationship
- Be willing to accept and respond positively to advice from subject and pastoral managers.
- Ability to support students/respond to parents through fluent and accurately spoken English.
- Have an understanding of the learning needs of less able students and be able to respond to them.
- Appreciate the needs of more able students and teach in a manner which acknowledges the need for differentiation and extension.
- Expect and be able to achieve appropriate standards of behaviour and discipline both within and outside the classroom.
What the school offers its staff
Nunnery Wood High School is oversubscribed and enjoys a strong reputation in the region. Staff and students enjoy school life and staff voice extremely high levels of satisfaction with working conditions and leadership of the school. Staff enjoy many benefits including a slightly lighter timetable than is common and a school gym.
Recent Ofsted inspections describe both results and student behaviour as significant strengths. Our intake is broad, from the academically gifted to students requiring nurturing in numeracy and literacy. We are ambitious for them all and share a deep conviction that they should all reach their potential with us.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Nunnery Wood High School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our students.
All staff at Nunnery Wood High School have a safeguarding responsibility.
The successful applicants will be required to undertake safer recruitment vetting checks, including an Enhanced Disclosure via the DBS.
Applying for the job
Please complete the online application.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
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About Nunnery Wood High School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 1479 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Nunnery Wood High School website
- Email address
- personnel@nunnerywood.worcs.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01905363636
Welcome to Nunnery Wood High School.
Nunnery Wood High School is an academy in Worcester, Worcestershire, England. It is a co-educational school and a Science College with about 1500 students on roll aged from 11 to 16. In 1983 following a restructuring of schools in Worcestershire the Nunnery Wood Secondary School was renamed Nunnery Wood High School.
The school campus is located on the edge of Worcester, surrounded by some 15 acres (61,000 m2) of gardens and playing fields which it shares with the adjacent Sixth Form College. The school benefits from refurbished or purpose built extensions including facilities for Science, English, Music, Art & Design, Languages and ICT. The school’s sports centre has an all-weather outdoor pitch and athletics track.
Arranging a visit to Nunnery Wood High School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email personnel@nunnerywood.worcs.sch.uk.
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