Curriculum Leader Performing Arts/Drama

Due to our increasing popularity and expanding roll, we are looking to appoint an enthusiastic, effective, innovative and highly motivated Curriculum Leader of Performing Arts / Drama to join our growing team of staff from January 2018.  

We are an Academy with Outstanding Leadership and Management at all levels across the school. (Ofsted 2010 & Ofsted 2013 – overall effectiveness “Outstanding”)  

The successful candidate must have: 

• The ability to teach Performing Arts / Drama up to at least KS4 and ideally to A Level
• The ability to lead and monitor effective practice
• The motivation and capacity to work collaboratively as part of a small dynamic team 
• A commitment to achieving high standards of teaching and learning and excellent results
• A passion for the subject and the ability to inspire our students.   

We will offer you: 

• A positive and innovative learning culture supported by students, staff, parents and governors, 
• A professional, hardworking and supportive team of staff with the capacity and commitment to raise student achievement even further,
• Access to the RSA Academies’ Teaching School Alliance which offers high quality training and leadership experiences for all staff,
• A Talent Management strategy that ensures teachers at all stages of their career have access to a range of leadership development programmes and 
• Facilitation of a range of accredited courses such as NPQML, NPQSL, NPSML along with our RSA Leadership Development Programme.   

Successful candidates should look forward to working in a challenging and inspiring environment within which there is ample opportunity to lay the foundations for career progression and leadership.  We are committed to ensuring that every member of our school community is enabled to ‘be the best they can be’.   

To find out more about Whitley Academy, please visit the website. or to find more details about the RSA Family of Academies, please visit the RSA Academies Website.

Informal visits are welcomed. To arrange a visit please email Whitley Academy.   Further information regarding this vacancy and the application process can be downloaded from the Whitley Academy website.

Completed applications should be returned via email to Whitley Academy.

Only fully completed application forms will be accepted.  CVs not accompanied with a completed application form will not be considered.  This post is not open to recruitment agencies.  We are an equal opportunities employer and are committed the safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.  Employment at the Academy will be subject to receipt of satisfactory enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) in accordance with the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, Police Act 1997 and the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012.