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  • Start date details

    September 2025

  • Closing date

    16 May 2025 at 9am

  • Date listed

    6 May 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Teacher

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Subject

Drama

Working pattern

Full time

Contract type

Fixed term

Full-time equivalent salary

£31,650.00 - £49,084.00 Annually (FTE)

Teacher of Drama (Maternity Cover) job summary

The Wensum Trust is seeking to appoint a committed and enthusiastic colleague to teach in our Performing Arts faculty at Hellesdon High School. This post offers the opportunity to teach drama across all three Key Stages.

The drama department prides itself on its excellent results and a wide range of extracurricular opportunities for its pupils. As a lead associate school with the RSC we have excellent professional connections and training opportunities. We work closely with the music department and pride ourselves on our positive relationships with other schools in the county. Our extracurricular opportunities include an inclusive whole school musical, community projects, care home performances, Christmas concert, summer festival and the Shakespeare Playmakers project. We have a well-established curriculum with a clear learning journey in place, with detailed schemes of work building on pupils' understanding of the arts.

At Hellesdon High School we are committed to an evidence-informed approach and a strong subject specific basis to our CPD programme. As a school and trust we offer excellent support for early career teachers, a number of career development opportunities and have great success in supporting staff seeking promoted posts.

Whilst this post would be ideal for an Early Career Teacher it is also a great opportunity for a teacher looking to broaden their experience in a large school with a Sixth Form.

As part of The Wensum Trust, we believe that our shared duty is to help every child to develop into high achieving, confident, healthy, caring and resilient members of their family and community. We want our schools to be healthy environments where both children and staff can develop and where strong, positive relationships are key. Our school, therefore, practises a relational approach with children, our families and our communities. We are particularly interested in working with people who share Our Qualities; who will work effectively and flexibly as part of a team.

Being a part of The Wensum Trust’s family of schools offers employees unique experiences to work alongside our strategic partners and to collaborate with a wider network of staff. We believe in investing in employees as individuals, by providing training opportunities that help to develop both existing and new skill sets, to encourage career progression at all levels.

We value our staff and are committed to supporting their wellbeing. We have an Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) which all staff can access 24 hours a day. The EAP provides counselling services, legal information and guidance, musculoskeletal services and online resources such as nutrition diaries, healthy eating plans, personal coaching questionnaires and tools and fitness programmes.

We care about bringing together the most able people, to help us achieve our vision of providing a rounded education for children, quality support for their families and opportunities to enrich our communities.

For further information on this vacancy and our school, please contact Sharon Revell on srevell2krr@nsix.org.uk

Safer Recruitment

The Wensum Trust is committed to safeguarding children and promoting the welfare of children and young people, we expect all trustees, staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The Wensum Trust is exempt from the Rehabilitations of Offenders Act 1974 and all convictions, cautions and bind-overs, including those regarded as 'spent' must be declared. All successful candidates will be subject to an Enhanced Criminal Record Disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service, along with other relevant employment checks, including overseas criminal background checks.

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.

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About Hellesdon High School

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 18
Education phase
Secondary
School size
1581 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 18
Ofsted report
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Hellesdon High School and Sixth Form is an ambitious and caring school. We provide a great variety of academic, social and cultural opportunities designed to help our young people to enjoy, achieve and succeed in all aspects of their life. Learning is at the heart of all we do. Through high quality teaching, we ensure every student's talents and abilities are catered for, allowing them to not just excel academically but also to develop skills which allow them to become more independent in their learning, in preparation for life beyond school. Our school also has the benefit of being part of The Wensum Trust which, alongside its strategic partners, continues to offer new and exciting opportunities for our students in an ever-changing world.

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