Head of Drama
Haberdashers' Knights Academy
Lewisham
- Expired
- Salary:
- MPS/UPS+ILW+TLR
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2025
- Apply by:
- 1 May 2025
Job overview
We wish to appoint an exceptional Head of Drama to join the supportive environment of our Drama Department who will use their experience, extensive subject knowledge, and vision to deliver ambitious and high-quality learning and teaching opportunities.
You will be passionate about Drama and have a resolve to make a real difference to our pupils. You will be able to plan and deliver an interesting and stimulating curriculum. Setting a level of challenge for all abilities across all key stages within lessons and the thriving extracurricular activities already on offer will be important to you.
We have an enviable professional development programme available that allows all staff to develop in their role with opportunities for internal promotion throughout the Trust.
Haberdashers’ Knights Academy is a vibrant, diverse 11–18 school community with a relentless focus on high expectations and aspirations. In January 2023, Ofsted judged that we continue to be a ‘Good’ school, enabling pupils’ to succeed through an engaging and stretching curriculum, high-quality teaching, and a vast range of extracurricular and culturally rich opportunities.
If you feel that this position is of interest and you have the right experience, skills and are ready for fresh challenges, with the ambition to make a real impact then we’d like to hear from you.
Full job details and application form available at:
www.habstrustsouth.org.uk/vacancies
To apply, submit your application via our website on www.habsknights.org.uk or contact knightshr@habstrustsouth.org.uk
Closing date: Thursday 1st May at 12pm
Interview date: Wednesday 7th May
We may hold interviews as and when applications are received and reserve the right to offer to a candidate before the closing date. We only accept applications submitted online via TES or the attached application form emailed to knightshr@habstrustsouth.org.uk, completed before the closing deadline. With this in mind, we encourage you to apply as soon as possible and advise you to check the job information attached. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted after the closing date.
The Academy is committed to the promotion of equal opportunities and diversity. We have a clear commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. The successful applicant will be required to complete an Enhanced Disclosure for the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Original evidence of the right to work within the United Kingdom will be required prior to commencement of employment i.e. National Insurance Number, Work Permits or Indefinite Leave to Remain. If the applicant has lived/worked overseas for 12 months or more since the age of 18, they will also be required to obtain a Certificate of Good Conduct from the country(ies) they lived/work in at their own expense and provide these for our records
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About Haberdashers' Knights Academy
- Haberdashers' Knights Academy
- Launcelot Road, Downham, Bromley
- Kent
- BR1 5EB
- United Kingdom
Haberdashers’ Knights Academy is a vibrant, diverse 11–18 school community with a relentless focus on high expectations and aspirations. We serve the families of the local community in the London Boroughs of Lewisham and Bromley and are part of the Haberdashers’ Academies Trust South, a well-established multi-academy trust of four secondary and five primary schools in southeast London and Kent with over 6000 students and 600 staff. The scale of expertise and leadership across our Trust gives us enormous capacity. It is this capacity that has resulted in the success of the Trust and allows us to mount new ventures and allows our staff to take on new opportunities and rapid development trajectories.
Haberdashers’ Academies Trust South is a multi-academy trust with five primary and four secondary schools in and around south-east London. Our mission is for all of our children and young people to be successful at school so that they flourish in their lives. We will only be able to achieve this ambition if we are a great employer who can attract, retain and develop great staff.
VISION 2026
Every School an Excellent School
It is the Trust’s vision for all of our schools to be excellent schools. Our mission is to ensure that every one of our children and young people flourishes at school so that they can be successful in their lives.
Our three main objectives are:
- Excellent outcomes for all children and young people so that they can be successful in their next steps and future lives;
- To be regarded as a great employer, attracting, retaining and developing the best staff;
- To be the Trust of choice and a welcome presence in our communities.
Joining Haberdashers’ Academies Trust South at any point in your career will be a rewarding and fulfilling experience. You will be part of a driven team that spans nine schools and a central services team in South East London and Kent, who are all resolute in their aim to make our schools excellent places to learn and work. We offer an attractive benefits package, plenty of professional development opportunities and a focus on career growth. You will also experience a flexible and supportive work environment with a focus on health and wellbeing, and a culture of openness and respect.
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