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Teacher of Performing Arts with possible TLR

Teacher of Performing Arts with possible TLR

Cardinal Griffin Catholic College

Staffordshire

  • £25,714 - £41,604 per year
  • Expired
Salary:
MPS/UPS
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
01/09/2022
Apply by:
23 May 2022

Job overview

Teacher of Performing Arts

The rate of pay will be Grade MPS / UPS + Possible TLR

 Governors are seeking applications from suitable applicants for a full-time, experienced Teacher of Performing Arts. MPS/UPS pay scale and a TLR may be considered for outstanding candidates.

We are seeking to appoint an experienced Teacher of Performing Arts to provide outstanding learning and teaching, and to ensure excellence and achievement for all pupils. The successful applicant will be required to teach at all levels of the Performing Arts curriculum throughout the secondary phases.

Candidates should be:

• Ambitious, positive and passionate about the role of Performing Arts in the curriculum.

• Absolutely committed to ensuring that students achieve great outcomes and enjoy Performing Arts.

• Experienced in using a variety of approaches to continually enhance Teaching and Learning

• Demonstrate capacity to work supportively in a key subject area within the PEPA faculty.

In return candidates can expect:

• Supportive and hard working colleagues committed to going the extra mile for pupils

• Training, development and support appropriate to their career stage in a College committed to the Education Well-being Charter.

• To be part of a College with a strong Catholic ethos with well-behaved pupils.

It is important that the successful candidate is a good fit in our team of staff, and so they may be highly experienced or just starting out on their teaching journey, what matters to us is their passion for teaching, strength as a classroom practitioner and love of their subject area.  

ECT’s who can demonstrate the potential to be outstanding teachers are encouraged to apply.

The College encourages applications from those of the Catholic faith, but it is not a barrier to appointment if candidates do not have that faith background provided they support the ethos of the College. We are extremely proud of our ethos which comes in very large part from our Jesuit Associate School membership and Catholic Diocesan heritage. This teaches us to be grateful for the gift of teaching that we have and to be generous in using it for the good of our pupils.

Closing date for applications is 9am, 23rd May 2022, no CV or agency applications will be accepted.

The College reserves the right to close this post prior to the published deadline should it receive sufficient applications. We therefore encourage candidates to submit early applications.

We welcome further discussions about the post and these can be conducted using a variety of online platforms or by telephone. Please make contact with us to discuss this if it will be helpful to you.


This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

This position is subject to a criminal records check from the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly CRB) which will require you to disclose details of all unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings cautions and convictions in your application form.

Where the role involves engaging in regulated activity relevant to children, candidates should note that it is an offence to apply for the role if the applicant is barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.


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About Cardinal Griffin Catholic College

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Cardinal Griffin Catholic College is an 11-19 Voluntary Aided Catholic Secondary school in Cannock, Staffordshire. The College was originally established in 1960, and has grown in size (with the associated additional building work) considerably since then. Sixth Form numbers have risen significantly in the last 12 months following a concerted effort to increase the numbers by the College Leadership. The College currently has 877 students on roll, of whom, 126 are in the Sixth Form.

The College has 5 Catholic feeder primary schools, whose students make up 45% of the student body. The rest of the students tend to be more local to the College and come from a variety of local schools. The Sixth Form predominantly recruits students from our own Year 11, but we have a handful of external applications each year, which we welcome. Sixth form provision also benefits from both a partnership with Cannock Chase High School with whom we share some courses and a partnership with a local hair salon who support the delivery of Levels 2 and 3 hairdressing qualifications. The College operates its own subsidised transport to bring in students from our Catholic feeder schools and wider catchment area.

The College has strong collaborative partnerships with local Catholic schools, a local Anglican school, as well other schools including the wider network of Jesuit schools throughout the UK and Internationally. Jesuit principles have become an integral part of the College in particular our experience of Magis - a Jesuit term referring to the philosophy of doing more for Christ, and therefore doing more for others. This challenges to always think about how we can ‘go the extra mile’ for our pupils, which is encapsulated in our school prayer, ‘Lord, teach me to be generous.”

The College’s last OfSTED in 2018 rated the College “Good” overall and “Good” in all areas. The latest Section 48 also rated the College as “Good”. Interim monitoring reports from Staffordshire Local Authority indicate that the College remains on track to retain its “Good” rating at the next inspection and results have risen considerably since a dip in 2019 with very positive results in summer 2022.

The College has worked hard to recruit and retain high quality staff. The team of teaching and support staff is stable, friendly and committed to the aims of the College and its Catholic mission. The College has become a hub for training Early Career Teachers this year with 9 joining us in September 2021. We have embraced the Government’s wellbeing charter and have a collaborative and distributed leadership approach.

The College has an Astroturf pitch which operates outside College hours to generate income, providing facilities for community teams. The College is also fortunate to have significant school grounds which facilitate a range of sports taking place and provide good socialisation space for pupils during breaktimes. The building itself is predominantly 1960s, but has been well maintained.

As part of the Archdiocesan academisation strategy, the College is in the early stages of considering becoming part of a Multi-Academy Trust.

View Cardinal Griffin Catholic High School’s latest Ofsted report

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