Teacher Of Art

Start date 1 September 2024

Hours 19.5, 3 days per week

Washwood Heath Academy
Burney Lane
Birmingham
B8 2AS

Are you an inspirational and enthusiastic Art Teacher looking for a new challenge?

Do you have the teaching skills and personality required to motivate and energise learners?

Are you passionate about the Art Curriculum and nurturing the next generation?

We have an outstanding opportunity for a highly effective and motivated Art specialist to take on the delivery of Art across all key stages. This is an exciting time to join our enthusiastic and passionate Art team. As a Teacher of Art, your focus will be on delivering the Art curriculum to students in key stage 3 and key stage 4. The ability to deliver photography at KS4 would be beneficial.

This is a part-time role of 3 days per week. You will also have the opportunity to work collaboratively with class teachers in the Primary phase. This comes at an exciting time within our development of Washwood Heath Multi Academy Trust, a family of 7 schools (one all-through, two secondaries and four primaries) serving the East of Birmingham. We believe that we are stronger working in partnership to serve the children and families of our community.

The successful candidates will:

• promote a love of lifelong learning
• inspire learners through their passion for the subject
• have excitement and drive for teaching and learning
• have a desire and an ability to make a difference to learners’ achievement

We can offer you:

• a collaborative and inclusive culture, where team members will upskill you and give you regular opportunities to learn from each other in a safe and collaborative environment, both within your schools and Trust-wide
• an opportunity to undertake structured CPD via access to the National College online CPD platform and/or apprenticeships such as Level 7 Senior Leaders Masters, with regular twilights
• access to Career Pathways and Pledge to help you plan for and make your goals a reality via our Professional Growth and Performance (PPG) process
• a wellbeing culture, with paid and unpaid time off to support life events via our Life Leave Policy, access to a Wellbeing Champion and the opportunity to participate in our annual staff wellbeing survey with Edurio, so we know and can respond to views
• access to 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), which includes confidential counselling, access to wellbeing advice and a lifestyle app called “My Possible Self”
• access to a suite of supportive policies, such as Life Leave, Wellbeing, Career Break and Family Friendly
• access to a generous pension scheme known as the Teachers’ Pension Scheme (LGPS)
• access to a comprehensive employee rewards package including Long Service Awards, Employee Referral Scheme, Cycle to Work Scheme and contribution to glasses and eye-sight tests for eligible display screen users
• opportunity to be part of key Trust-wide collaborative groups such as the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI working group) and Wellbeing working groups, including menopause support and neurodiversity support
• onsite parking at all schools

We value our people and are dedicated to making sure that everybody feels empowered to bring their authentic self to work. We promise to treat all candidates fairly, consistently and with respect throughout the application, assessment, and selection process. We are also “happy to talk flexible working” subject to the operational requirements of the role.  

For an informal discussion, please contact Rachel Sturges, Head of Art, rsturgess@washwood.academy  or Emma Pugh, Assistant Head Teacher for the Arts Faculty, epugh@washwood.academy  

Please visit the website and apply online 

This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to necessary pre-employment checks, including: an enhanced DBS; Prohibition check (where applicable) Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work.  All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references. An online search will also be carried out on all shortlisted candidates. 

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. Which means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.