Subject Lead in Drama
Avanti Fields School, Leicester, LE5 0BXThis job expired on 29 April 2024 – see similar jobs
Job start date
22 August 2024
Closing date
29 April 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
18 April 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
- Head of department or curriculum
Visa sponsorship
- Skilled Worker visas can be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 1, Key stage 2, Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Subject
- Drama
Working pattern
- Full time, term time: 32.5 hours per week
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- MPS1 UPS3
Additional allowances
plus TLR2a
What skills and experience we're looking for
About the Role
We are seeking to appoint an excellent Subject Lead for Drama to lead the team in the provision of an excellent, engaging and innovative curriculum.
The successful candidate will not only be passionate about their subject, and have exceptional subject knowledge, but also have a passion and drive to deliver and engage students in their pursuit of subject knowledge, skills and creative expression.
Please note that we may close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, we'd encourage you to submit your application as early as possible.
What will you do?
- Develop and implement a curriculum that fosters high expectations and achievement for all students.
- Collaborate with other Subject Leaders to integrate literacy, numeracy, and ICT across the curriculum.
- Create and execute an annual subject improvement plan in alignment with the school's goals.
- Recruit, train, and manage a motivated team of teaching and support staff.
- Foster a safe, respectful, and engaging learning environment while fulfilling wider professional responsibilities.
For a more comprehensive list of the job responsibilities, please view the full Job Description
What are we looking for?
- Bachelor’s degree qualification in a relevant or related field, alongside QTS certification.
- Extensive teaching experience in high-performing schools with a track record of achieving high standards.
- Demonstrates genuine enthusiasm for continuous learning and believes in the unique potential of every student.
- Self-motivated, collaborative, and proactive individual with a strong sense of personal responsibility and initiative.
- Possesses effective management skills, fostering stakeholder buy-in and encouraging creativity, alongside a commitment to safeguarding and promoting student welfare.
Please view the full Job Description for more information on the essential criteria and skills required for this role.
What the school offers its staff
About Us
Avanti Fields School is an all-through, faith designated (Hindu) state school which welcomed the first intake of Year 7 students in September 2018, and first intake of Nursery and Reception students in September 2022. The school is rapidly expanding and will grow year by year to a full cohort of 1,320. This is an exciting time to join the school as it continues its journey to outstanding.
The staff at Avanti Fields School are passionate about our school and are relentlessly focused on improving the achievement and opportunities for all our students. All staff that work at the school will need to subscribe to our ethos and values and seek to improve and develop their own practice and performance for the benefit of our students.
This is a unique opportunity to work in a school which is driven by three key elements for both students and staff:
- Educational excellence
- Character formation
- Spiritual insight
Why should you apply
Avanti exists to help each person become a well-rounded human being through intellectual, moral and spiritual growth, and so make the world a better place.
You will be working in a fantastic environment, with:
- A strong vision of Educational Excellence, Character Formation and Spiritual Insight
- Great opportunities for professional development
- Teacher pension scheme subject to eligibility criteria
- O2 discounts
- NUS Card
- Specsavers corporate eye test vouchers
- Access to multiple well-being programmes
- Cycle to work and Electric Vehicle Lease Schemes
- Plus many more
Further details about the role
Further information
Pre-employment checks
Avanti Schools Trust committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates are required to have an Enhanced DBS check unless internally appointed and still within the cycle of DBS re-checks.
Any appointment subsequently made will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory references and other pre-employment checks.
Diversity and Inclusion
We want to make sure we are attracting the widest possible range of people and ensure that they are accepted, understood and treated equally when they work here. This means we will work hard to understand that each employee is unique and ensuring that individuals or groups are not treated differently or less favourably on the basis of specific characteristics.
Such characteristics include (but are not limited to) age, disability, gender including transgender, race, religion, sexual orientation, marital status, and how the school supports pregnant women and new parents.
Commitment to safeguarding
Avanti Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates are required to have an Enhanced DBS check unless internally appointed and still within the cycle of DBS re-checks.
Any appointment subsequently made will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory references and other pre-employment checks.
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About Avanti Fields School
- School type
- Free School, Hindu, ages 3 to 16
- Education phase
- View all Through schooljobs
- School size
- 950 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Avanti Fields School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- Careers@avanti.org.uk
Avanti Fields School is a new all-through school which welcomed the first intake of Year 7 students in September 2018. The school is rapidly expanding, and will grow year by year to a full cohort of 1,320. This is an exciting time to join the school as it moves into its new state of the arts building and continues its journey to outstanding.
Avanti Fields School; we are an all-through; 3–16 Hindu-faith school – part of the multi-academy, Avanti Schools Trust.
Avanti Schools are extremely popular with Hindu and non-Hindu parents alike who want an outstanding, disciplined and inclusive environment for learning for their children.
Our established schools in London and Leicester are all at least rated good with outstanding features and have the highest expectations are our pupils.
Avanti’s faith ethos means high academic and moral standards and an environment that values and nurtures the best within all faiths.
Avanti Fields is a Hindu-designated faith school, part of the growing family of Avanti schools. However, staff and students at Avanti Fields School do not originate from any specific faith background. Applications are welcome from practitioners of any faith and from those of none; they will, however, be expected to be in full sympathy with the unique ethos and vision of the School.
Arranging a visit to Avanti Fields School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email Careers@avanti.org.uk.
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