Teacher of Drama - Fixed Term
Bedales School
Petersfield
- Expired
- Salary:
- Commensurate with experience
- Job type:
- Full Time, Fixed Term
- Start date:
- January 2019
- Apply by:
- 9 October 2018
Job overview
Benefits: On Site Parking, Free School lunches during Term Time, Life Assurance, Pension, Personal Accident Cover
Job details:
This is an exceptional opportunity to be part of a thriving department. Both our curricular and extra-curricular performances are highly accomplished and we pride ourselves in offering this excellence in a range of genres. Based in our oak frame theatre, this role (with the potential to take Head of Department responsibility for a busy operation) works with teachers, visiting teachers, directors, designers and guest practitioners to deliver a deeply enriching student academic calendar. Creative problem solving alongside rigour is the aim for students and staff alike, resulting in a positive invigorating experience for all.
We are looking for a well-qualified and inspiring drama teacher with a track record of success. This success may have come from exciting work in the state or independent sector. The role is perfect for someone keen to ensure drama is a vital and important subject at Bedales.
The successful candidate will have sound subject knowledge, excellent interpersonal, organisational and communication skills, an ability to build up positive rapports with colleagues and students and an appreciation of the ethos and aims of Bedales and the way in which the subject contributes to the aims of the school.
If you are interested in applying for this post please read the job description which includes full details regarding the post.
CVs cannot be accepted in lieu of an application form. Candidates must apply directly to Bedales Schools via the recruitment portal on the Bedales website: http://www.bedales.org.uk/home/about-bedales/bedales-schools-jobs
Enquiries regarding the post can be made to Hayley Ager, Head of Drama, via email to hager@bedales.org.uk
All other enquiries relating to the recruitment process should be forwarded to recruitment@bedales.org.uk
Closing Date: 9.00am, Wednesday 10 October 2018
Interview Date: Wednesday 17 October 2018
Bedales is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. All teaching posts are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and all successful applicants will undergo safeguarding screening including an enhanced DBS and Barred List check from the Disclosure and Barring Service and a Prohibition from Teaching Check.
About Bedales School
Bedales School is an independent, co-educational, selective, day and boarding school for children aged 3-18. It is situated in Petersfield in Hampshire and there are 460 pupils on its roll. There are admission fees and scholarships and bursaries are available.
Bedales is a charitable trust and was founded in 1893 by J H Badley as a humane alternative to the authoritarian regimes of the late-Victorian public schools. Its founding ethos was, and still is, “Head, Hand and Heart.”
Headteacher
Will Goldsmith
Values and vision
The school prides itself on having a strong sense of belonging and it has five core aims for its pupils; to develop inquisitive thinkers with a love learning, to help develop talents through doing and making, to foster each individual and encourage initiative, creativity and appreciation of beauty, to ensure students, alumni, parents and staff take pride in the communities distinctiveness and to feel valued and nourished, and to foster interest beyond the school, with the community and to develop national and international awareness
ISI
“The School is extremely successful in achieving its aims. It is a mutual learning society, determined to maintain its momentum for continuous development. At all stages, students are well educated, and the quality of their achievement and learning is excellent. Students with SEND or EAL achieve well and make rapid progress through the excellent support they receive as their needs are carefully met. More able students and those with particular gifts or talents achieve suitably high standards in a variety of activities.”
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