Teacher of Art - Maternity Cover
King Harold Business & Enterprise Academy, Waltham Abbey, Essex, EN9 1LFThis job expired on 24 March 2023 – see similar jobs
Start date details
17/04/2023
Closing date
24 March 2023 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
13 March 2023
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Subject
- View all Art and designjobs
Working pattern
- View all Full timejobs
- Full time to cover a period of maternity leave – this may lead to a permanent position
Contract type
- Maternity or parental leave cover - Full time to cover a period of maternity leave – this may lead to a permanent position
Pay scale
- Main Scale
What skills and experience we're looking for
King Harold Academy is a school with a clear and ambitious vision: to become one of the kindest, hardest-working, highest-achieving schools in the UK.
We are a proud community school with incredible students, supportive parents and talented, committed staff members. Expectations at King Harold are extremely high.
We live by a clear set of values that drive everything we do:
o Kindness
o Hard Work
o Ambition
These values shape all aspects of the work we do: the curriculum we teach, our behaviour policy, our teaching framework, our enrichment programme, our approach to teacher wellbeing, our interactions with parents and students – everything we do. King Harold Academy is a rapidly-developing, growing secondary school. It is an exciting time to come and work with us, to be part of a team who are building a school that transforms the life chances of young people in the community, with ambitions to become a beacon of excellence in the educational sector. Members of our teaching team love working at KHA. We work closely together, reward and recognise each other’s hard work and successes, and pride ourselves on the quality of our professional development. All of our staff run clubs and enrichment activities, and next year we'll be making this part of teachers’ allocation of lessons, because we are committed to building strong relationships and developing well-rounded KHA students, who leave us with more than just qualifications. As a Teacher of Art, you will be joining a talented team of teachers who are supportive, determined, hard-working and incredibly invested in the success of our students.
What the school offers its staff
We are looking for someone who loves Art, is creative, believes passionately in its academic and social importance, and can work well in a team to deliver an inspiring, transformative curriculum. We would like our KHA scholars to be empowered and inspired to go on to further study in the subject at some of the most prestigious colleges and universities in the country. You will join a positive and supportive staff body. Our SLT are incredibly talented and committed to the school. They are highly visible, models of excellent teaching themselves, and take great pride in the development of our teaching teams. If you’re interested in playing a crucial role in building a school community that provides a transformative education for its students, then King Harold Academy is an exciting opportunity for you.
The successful candidate will have/be:
- Kind, Hard-Working and Ambitious
- A passion for teaching Art;
- A keen interest in developing curriculum and pedagogy.
- Experience of teaching KS3 and KS4 Art;
- The highest aspirations and expectations for all students, yourself and our school; King Harold Academy also benefits from being part of the Kemnal Academies Trust (TKAT).
Further details about the role
As an employee of TKAT you will benefit from:
- A wide variety of opportunities for professional development, including the potential to develop your career at more than one TKAT academy;
- Opportunities to work flexibly, where possible;
- Our support for your wellbeing at work; and
- The rewards of working to improve the life chances of our pupils.
If you would like to arrange an informal conversation with the Head of School prior to application, please contact Mrs Campbell.
TKAT is committed to inclusion, diversity and equality of opportunity by encouraging and welcoming differences, listening to individual experiences, aspirations and accomplishments and learning how to grow better together. We welcome applications from all suitable candidates, regardless of any protected characteristic; this includes applicants wishing to work flexibly.
Access to interview - should you be selected and invited to interview please let us know if you require us to adapt the interview environment. If we can accommodate practical workplace adjustments to assist, we will.
We reserve the right to close the vacancy early should we receive a significant number of applications. If you have not had any communication within 10 days of the closing date please take this as confirmation that on this occasion your application has not been successful.
Commitment to safeguarding
TKAT is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Offers of employment will be subject to the full Safer Recruitment process, including an enhanced disclosure and barring service check.
About King Harold Business & Enterprise Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 760 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- hr@tkat.org
King Harold Academy is a community based school in Waltham Abbey, Essex.
King Harold Academy benefits from being part of the Kemnal Academies Trust (TKAT).
Currently we teach KS3 and 4
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