Teacher of Art
The Halley Academy, London, SE3 8EPThis job expired on 3 February 2020 – see similar jobs
Job start date
24 February 2020
Closing date
3 February 2020 at 11:59pm
Date listed
15 January 2020
Job details
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Subjects
- Art and design, Design and technology
Working pattern
- Full time
Full-time equivalent salary
- Main pay range 1 to Upper pay range 3, £30,480 to £49,571
Additional allowances
Working with The Halley Academy: The Halley Academy has a long and illustrious heritage being the first purpose-built comprehensive in the UK in the 1950s. We became part of Leigh Academies Trust in early 2018, a highly successful multi-academy trust offering a wealth of opportunities to all of its staff and students to collaborate, develop and grow.
The Halley is a vibrant academy on an exciting journey of rapid improvement. We are a candidate school for the International Baccalaureate Career-related Programme in Post 16 and the IB Middle Years Programme in Key Stage 3. We are a diverse community where everyone is valued, respected and trusted, where we all work together to achieve and celebrate success. Students thrive within a culture of high aspiration, with no cap on ambition, building the skills to lead healthy, happy and successful lives.
Our dedicated staff are the most important factor in transforming lives and delivering the best outcomes for every student. Every colleague has access to a wide range of professional development opportunities, tailored to the individual depending on aspirations and key areas of interest. We are seeking to appoint talented and ambitious individuals with a tenacious mind-set to join The Halley Academy for September 2019.
Working with Leigh Academies Trust: As of September 2019, our Trust is comprised of 25 geographically organised academies (11 secondaries, 13 primaries and 1 special) educating over 15,000 students, and employing over 2,500 talented staff. We also have three further academies in development phase, due to open between September 2020-2021. The Trust is establishing four ‘clusters’ of academies: North West Kent; Central Kent; South East London; Medway. In addition, the Trust is responsible for one of the region’s biggest initial teaching training providers and a large teaching school.
As part of Leigh Academies Trust you will have ample opportunity to collaborate with your peers both within the academy and across the whole Trust. This is an important part of our vision as we know through experience that we perform better when we work together. You are supported to undertake regular self-development to continue your professional development and hopefully progress further within the organisation.
We strive to offer a range of benefits that all employees can take advantage of which we regularly review and add to - click here to view what you’d receive as a member of staff with Leigh Academies Trust.
Diversity at our core: As a Trust we are passionate about diversity and recognise that as individuals we all bring something unique to the role regardless of age, gender, race, beliefs or disabilities which is why we treat all of our people equally, without compromise. All roles within the Trust are subject to an Enhanced DBS check in addition to other pre-employment checks.
Teacher of Art job summary
About the role: The Halley Academy has a fantastic opportunity to appoint a Teacher of Art who will join us in February 2020. Our successful candidate will be driven, motivated and most of all, passionate about their subject area. We are always keen to hear from an Art practitioner with a broad skill-set who is keen to join a highly successful and collaborative academy. We offer a working environment like no other, incredible students and great resources... what more could you want!
Our successful candidate will join us on a permanent basis and must be able to teach at Key Stages 3, 4 and 5. Regardless of what stage you are at in your career, we can offer you bespoke career progression and development and fantastic career prospects. As an IB School, applicants that have previous experience in delivering MYP and CP are of strong interest to us but please note that this criterion is not essential. Applications from teachers at any stage in their career are welcome; experienced teachers with the ambition to train to develop further, NQTs, and those looking to experience a supportive environment where they can focus on teaching. The duties and responsibilities associated with this post are in line with the National Teaching Standards.
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.
About The Halley Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 19
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 876 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- The Halley Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- talent@latrust.org.uk
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