Head of Art Department

Are you an ambitious, driven, creative Art Teacher looking for a position as Head of Department in school full of well-behaved and hardworking pupils? We are looking to appoint an outstanding practitioner determined to create an engaging curriculum and secure the best outcomes for students.

Selly Park Girls’ School is a high performing 11-16 school in the south of Birmingham with 760 girls on roll and a proven record of GCSE success. We are a successful, vibrant, happy and oversubscribed school. We consistently rank as one of the top 10 Local Authority schools in Birmingham in terms of student progress and have been rated as outstanding by Ofsted for a decade.

The post requires someone who will provide strategic leadership within the art department, with a clear focus on continuing to drive improvements in teaching as well as providing an extra-curricular and enrichment programme for our pupils. The School is looking to appoint a well-qualified, excellent classroom practitioner to lead, manage and develop the provision of art within the school and to ensure appropriate monitoring, analysis and evaluation. We welcome applications from teachers with experience of leading improvement in students’ attainment and progress.

The successful candidate should be a teacher of imagination and commitment, able to teach Art to GCSE Level and keen to work with pupils of all abilities in a well-resourced department. We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic individual who is keen to take advantage of our teacher development programmes and further enhance pupil progress.

For further details email your request to recruitment@sellyparkgirls.org. An application form, job description and person specification are available for download on the school website at https://sellyparkgirls.org/staff-vacancies

Closing date for applications: 08:00am on 07/02/2022, emailed to: recruitment@sellyparkgirls.org

Interviews: Week Commencing 13/02/2022

This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) and therefore the ability to speak fluent spoken English is an essential

requirement for this role. Selly Park Girls’ School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS check is required for all successful applicants. We are a socially inclusive and equal opportunities school and committed to actively promoting equal opportunities for all our students and staff.