Teacher of Art
Larkmead School, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 1RF15 days remaining to apply
Start date details
01 September 2025
Closing date
18 April 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
2 April 2025
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subject
- Art & Design
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £31,650.00 - £49,084.00 Annually (Actual) Annually (FTE) 1.0 FTE. Teachers Main Pay Scale to Upper Pay Scale, depending on experience.
Teacher of Art job summary
As the successful candidate you will be:
a qualified Art teacher who is always looking to develop
confident teaching across Key Stages 3 to 5
passionate about all aspects of Art
organised, enthusiastic and efficient
committed to making a difference to young people’s lives
a confident leader with excellent communication and inter-personal skills
Larkmead is a happy, ambitious and vibrant school packed full of energy, opportunity and choice. Great teaching and learning across the school are supported by our culture of research and collaboration. Each student gets the very best experience to enable them to achieve their ambitions. Our pastoral care provides compassion, security and confidence, nurturing students to be happy, to develop and to thrive. The Larkmead promise sets out our vision, ethos and ambitions for students and staff.
It will be essential for the successful applicant to demonstrate the capacity to make a real contribution to the work of this supportive and collaborative faculty. Faculty staff form a hardworking and professional team, who have a relentless focus on ensuring all students have a wide ranging and enjoyable experience within the faculty. Art is a popular option choice and students achieve outstanding results at both KS4 and KS5. We are looking for someone with the drive and energy to make a sustained difference to the students in our community.
Please do not hesitate to get in touch and visit the school prior to making a formal application.
We offer:
- an excellent programme of induction and training which seeks to provide an excellent foundation for career progression
- a forward thinking environment which recognises the benefits of considering flexible working patterns
- a friendly, caring, supportive and collaborative team environment
- a professional environment dedicated to Teaching and Learning with a supportive, dedicated and hardworking staff
Larkmead is a school with clear, positive values, which add positive value to our students and staff. We are a diverse community and greatly value the contribution that colleagues from different backgrounds and with different experiences bring to our school.
If this sounds like the sort of opportunity and environment you are looking for in your career journey and you feel that you possess these attributes, then we very much look forward to meeting you.
The school reserves the right to consider and interviews candidates ahead of the closing date if appropriate. An offer may be made to an exceptional candidate in this instance.
Larkmead School is a member of the Cambrian Learning Trust. Cambrian Learning Trust are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment. All post holders in regulated activity are subject to appropriate vetting procedures and a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Enhanced check. Shortlisted candidates will be subject to online searches for publicly available information. Cambrian Learning Trust is an equal opportunities employer, and we welcome applications from a range of backgrounds to represent diversity in line with our schools' community.
Commitment to safeguarding
At Larkmead safeguarding and student welfare is of paramount importance and to that end we will always put the physical and mental wellbeing of students first.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About Larkmead School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 917 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Larkmead School website
Larkmead is a happy, ambitious and vibrant school packed full of energy, opportunity and choice. Great teaching and learning across the school are supported by our culture of research and collaboration. Each student gets the very best experience to enable them to achieve their ambitions. Our pastoral care provides compassion, security and confidence, nurturing students to be happy, to develop and to thrive. The Larkmead Promise sets out our vision, ethos and ambitions for students and staff.
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