Teacher of Art

Job title:                     Teacher of Art

Grade:                         MPS / UPS + London Fringe

Hours:                         Full-time / part-time

Responsible to:         Head of Expressive Arts Faculty

Start date:                 September 2023 or January 2024

Contract:                    Permanent

Required for September 2023 a well-qualified Teacher of Art and/or Art Graphics to teach at Key Stage 3 and 4 across the ability range in a faculty that achieves excellent results and high standards. We are looking for an enthusiastic and imaginative individual to join a committed Expressive Arts Faculty. The Expressive Arts Faculty comprises Art, Art Graphics, Music and Drama, each of which has a track record of excellent results and high standards. We hope that you will share our passion for creativity and will want to champion opportunities for creative expression both in and outside the classroom. ECTs are welcome to apply.

Visitors tell us that our school is a friendly, lively and stimulating community where we emphasise the importance of the individual’s contribution and take pleasure in sharing and celebrating achievement. They commend the good behaviour of the pupils and their thirst for knowledge. Bishop’s is a diverse community that offers mutual support and encouragement and expects everyone within it to respect others’ cultures, religion and beliefs. We hope that the values, self-discipline and sense of personal worth that pupils gain here will be a support throughout their lives as British and Global Citizens. We welcome applications from BAME candidates or from other groups that are underrepresented in the UK education system.

This is an exciting opportunity to join the school at a time of growth and development. Arts subjects make a huge contribution to the life of the school and we are looking for a candidate who will help to extend this work.

Bishop’s Hatfield Girls’ School is heavily oversubscribed and has around 930 pupils on roll including the Sixth Form. We are fully committed to our values of teamwork, respect, honesty, trust, kindness and ambition. We are not driven by Ofsted and our priorities lie in supporting our pupils to develop their knowledge, skills and character through the ‘Bishop’s 360’ model. We want everyone in our community to be able ‘achieve their potential and enjoy the journey’. The school completed its most recent Ofsted inspection in December 2022 and was judged to continue to be Outstanding. The school has benefited from a total rebuild on the same site and enjoys excellent state of the art facilities. BHGS holds International School Status, the Music Mark and is a Fairtrade School. Hatfield is within easy reach of London and other areas and the London Fringe Allowance is payable.

The school's Admissions’ Code gives priority places to children of staff and we give high priority to staff development. Staff are able to apply for our Professional Development Award which provides bursary payments to help finance CPD that goes beyond the school’s usual training programme.

We take safeguarding of our students extremely seriously and an enhanced disclosure will be sought through the Disclosure and Barring Service as part of the school’s pre-employment checks.

If you would like to visit us, prior to making an application, and see for yourself how our girls learn in a vibrant, supportive environment please contact Sally Fullerton at sfullerton@bishophatfield.herts.sch.uk.

Please see the job description on our website for more detail.

An Equal Opportunities’ Employer,

Bishop’s Hatfield Girls’ School is committed to

the protection and safety of its pupils and expects all

staff to share this commitment.

Closing date for applications: Monday 12th June (we reserve the right to make an early appointment should a suitable candidate become available)

Interview and assessment date: To be confirmed

PLEASE COMPLETE THE BHGS TEACHING STAFF APPLICATION FORM  available on our website - https://bishophatfield.herts.sch.uk/vacancies/

Completed forms should be emailed to sfullerton@bishophatfield.herts.sch.uk