Teacher of Drama

Teacher of Drama

Responsible To: Drama: Stage & Screen Pathway Leader

Location: CAPA College, Mulberry Way, Wakefield, WF1 2QN

Grade: Main Pay Scale (if the successful candidate has QTS) or UQT Scale (if the successful candidate is an industry professional moving into a teacher career without QTS)

Contract: Full-time, permanent OR Part-time, permanent (please indicate whether you wish to apply for a full-time or part-time role)

Start Date: Monday 2nd September 2024

Advertisement Closing Date: Monday 29th April 2024, 9am

Are you an outstanding teacher and/or drama practitioner capable of delivering outstanding lessons and projects to inspire students and develop their love for the subject? Can you influence and inspire the next generation of stage and screen dramatists? Do you want to make a meaningful and fulfilling contribution to one of the UK’s top post-16 Arts Colleges and help us achieve our vision for the future? Then we would love to hear from you.

This is an exciting opportunity to work in a forward-thinking, highly positive and outstanding Arts in Education organisation. CAPA College’s very popular and successful Drama: Stage and Screen Pathway is growing which means that we are excited to be able to appoint another passionate, creative Drama subject specialist to join our established team of teachers, artists and practitioners. Please note thatsuccessful applicants will be required to comply with all Enhance Academy Trust policies. The successful applicant will be subject to relevant vetting checks, includinga satisfactory enhanced disclosure and pre-employment and safeguarding checks before an offer of appointment is confirmed. Following appointment, the employee will be subject to rechecking as required from time to time by the BLP. CAPA College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staffand volunteersto share this commitment. The incredible Drama curriculum at CAPA College focuses on both stage and screen and includes:

• Acting for Camera
• Contemporary Theatre
• Classical Theatre
• Devising
• Voice
• Facilitation
• Acting techniques
• Directing for stage and screen
• Writing for stage and screen • Presenting
• TV & Film making and performance
• Practitioner study
• Drama Theory (including live theatre evaluations, history, context and Edexcel Drama and Theatre Studies specification requirements)
• Physical Theatre
• Musical Theatre

We are excited to receive applications from specialists who feel they have the skills, experience and passion to contribute significantly to at least two or three areas of the Drama curriculum. As such, applications from both qualified teachers (QTS), FE or HE lecturers or Drama practitioners with teaching experience are all welcomed.

How to Apply

Application forms can be downloaded from our website and:

• Sent with a covering letter by e-mail to recruitment@capacollege.co.uk or
• Posted with a covering letter to CAPA College, Mulberry Way, Wakefield, WF1 2QN

Employment checks required of this post:

• Evidence of Right to Work in the UK
• Evidence of essential qualifications as detailed in the Person Specification
• Two satisfactory references
• Evidence of a satisfactory safeguarding check e.g. Enhanced DBS Check
• A Children’s Barred List Check
• Confirmation of medical fitness for employment

For further information please check out our website www.capacollege.co.uk

or email recruitment@capacollege.co.uk