Teacher of Art
Newstead Wood School, Orpington, Kent, BR6 9SAThis job expired on 28 February 2025 – see similar jobs
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
28 February 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
6 February 2025
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Subject
- Art and design
Working pattern
- Full time, part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- PT/EPT United Learning Enhanced pay scales
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic Art Teacher to join our passionate and thriving department. With a passion for their subject, and a creative outlook, the successful candidate will teach their specialism to across all key stages and play a key role in preparing students for further and higher study of the subject.
This is a fantastic opportunity for a well-qualified Teacher to work with some of the highest calibre students in the country.Enrichment opportunities provide a perfect complement to the taught curriculum.
All students study Art at KS3 and have the option of Fine Art or Graphics at GCSE and A level.
Newstead Wood School is forward thinking and dynamic school and we would welcome any potential applicants who would like to visit the school prior to interview.
We are proud to have flexible working embedded into our culture.
You will be able to demonstrate the professional and personal qualities necessary to consistently inspire our highly motivated and very capable students across all three Key Stages, 3 to 5.
The successful candidate will:
- Be an outstanding, organised and committed teacher
- Have a great understanding of all aspects of Art and Design
- Be able to stimulate and engage students
- Be creative, determined and enthusiastic
Information about our Art Curriculum can be found on our website.
What the school offers its staff
Newstead Wood School is a highly selective girls’ state secondary school, with a co-educational Sixth Form. The school is heavily over-subscribed. Students here achieve the highest academic standards whilst also benefitting from exceptional pastoral care. Our school badge, with its symbol of the acorn and the motto Fortitudine Crescamus, meaning ‘may we grow in strength’, symbolises the idea of growth, both for the school and for the individual.
We are a diverse and inclusive school with a wide catchment area. We pride ourselves on an excellent range of extracurricular opportunities to complement our academic courses. The vast majority of our students' progress to Russell Group Universities at the end of our Sixth Form. We are exceptionally proud of our students. They are bright and happy young people who enjoy being at school, each bringing unique talents to our community. Newstead students have freedom and security to be themselves, and many opportunities to follow their interests and aspirations. We know them as individuals and support them to grow as thinking young people and active citizens, ready to take positions of responsibility and leadership on leaving school.
Our lessons move at a fast pace and students are routinely challenged in their thinking. All of the Arts are very popular and students come to their lessons with high expectations and a desire for active and complex learning.
Newstead Wood is situated in Orpington in the London Borough of Bromley and there are excellent rail links to both London Bridge and Victoria Stations.
Part of United Learning
Newstead Wood School is part of United Learning, a large, and growing, group of schools aiming to offer a life changing education to children and young people across England.
Our schools work as a team and achieve more by sharing than any single school could. Our subject specialists, our Group-wide intranet, our own curriculum and our online learning portal all help us share knowledge and resource, helping to simplify work processes and manage workloads for an improved work-life balance.
As a Group, we can reward our staff better: with good career opportunities, better pay, benefits, and ultimately, the satisfaction of helping children to succeed. We invest in our staff wellbeing. Our academies each have at least eight INSET days per year (with three of those solely dedicated to planning), and an ongoing group-wide wellbeing programme. It's an ethos we call ‘the best in everyone’.
To find out more about working in our Trust,click here.
We are working hard to become a more diverse organisation – which is key to our commitment to bringing out the best in everyone.We welcome applications from everyone committed to this ethos and would particularly welcome applications from black and minority ethnic candidates, who are currently under-represented in the Group as a whole.We always appoint on merit.We are open to discussing flexible working options.
Applicants are encouraged to apply promptly, as we may call candidates for interview at any time and close the advert early.
Closing Date for Applications - Friday 28 February 2025
If you are interested in applying for this position, please complete the on-line application form or apply via our website by e-mail to: recruitment@newsteadwood.co.uk or call us for an informal conversation on 01689 853626
Newstead Wood School is an equal opportunities employer and requires enhanced DBS clearance as part of its commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.We particularly welcome applications from BAME candidates as they are currently under-represented at our school. We recognise the vital contribution that members of a diverse team make to our students learning. The range of cultural experiences, differing viewpoints and role models this brings is essential in our school and we recognise the gap that would be left in our students education without you!
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.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Newstead Wood School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1264 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Newstead Wood School website
- Email address
- recruitment@newsteadwood.co.uk
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