Assistant Head of Performing Arts with Music Specialism
Assistant Head of Performing Arts with Music Specialism – Required Full Time from April 2025
We require an Assistant Head of Department for Performing Arts with a Music Specialism to add to our team in our expanding college. You will join an enthusiastic and happy team of teaching staff, all with a passion for young people and for Performing Arts too.You will be supported in your role, whatever stage of your career you are, the most important thing we are looking for is an excellent teacher with a commitment to young people and a desire to develop themselves and others.
Can you offer the following to the students and teachers of Hailsham Community College Academy Trust:
- To assist the leadership and management of the Performing Arts department towards outstanding progress and attainment
- To support the implementation of the curriculum across the subject areas of Dance, Drama and Music.
- To assist the Head of Department in monitoring, reviewing and evaluating the effectiveness of the curriculum in Music, Dance and Drama to ensure all staff understand and deliver upon the curriculum intent leading to great impact
- To maintain high presence around the Academy to ensure the highest standards of behaviour are upheld
- Actively support staff and students with welfare and well-being
- Provide professional challenge towards raising achievement and ensuring high standards
- Model outstanding practice in terms of classroom teaching, preparation, marking and assessment
- Communicate and liaise with staff, students, the home, community and governors
- Constantly ensure development of team members both within subject and in the wider academy community
- Contribute to the strategic leadership of the Academy, assisting with developing, implementing and evaluating systems and processes, such as effective quality assurance, action planning and tracking progress
- Ensure teaching and learning incorporates safeguarding at all times
- To oversee a rich extra-curricular programme which includes annual performances
- If you have the motivation and drive for excellence and want to be a part of an enthusiastic, dedicated and well-resourced team, committed to ensuring that all students make the best possible progress in an ambitious school with the desire to be ‘excellent’, we would be pleased to receive an application from you.
Salary: Teachers Pay Scale with TLR
Applicants will be assessed as they arrive therefore, we strongly advise you to apply at the earliest opportunity.
To apply, please download the Job Pack and Application Form from our website. Please complete a covering letter which specifies how you will contribute to our ongoing drive for improvement, with reference to the impact you would have on supporting both the progress and wellbeing of our students as well as how you apply wider professional learning/educational research within your pedagogy.