This is a leadership post heading the art department at Harris Church of England Academy, reporting to an Assistant or Deputy Headteacher. The work centres on raising teaching and learning quality and achievement in art, from setting targets and schemes of work to running the department's action plan and monitoring classroom practice. It combines subject leadership with a role in shaping whole-academy strategy, and includes managing support staff and performance management. Visa sponsorship is not available, and the post starts at Easter 2027.
What the job involves
- Lead teaching, learning, achievement and attainment within the art department
- Organise the delivery of art across the academy
- Develop and implement subject policies and practice, with targets set from academy and national data
- Lead subject staff in teaching, providing feedback and INSET, and quality-assure lessons
- Write and review the termly departmental action plan and report progress to the line manager
- Oversee schemes of work, the examination specification and assessment across the subject
- Line manage support staff and lead performance management for identified teachers
- Help select, induct and develop teaching staff, including NQTs, and ensure access to professional development
- Manage departmental resources, capitation and the teaching area
- Plan the distribution of teaching load and staff expertise to meet academy targets
- Contribute to whole-academy strategy, policies and ethos, representing the department at Middle Leaders meetings
- Hold regular departmental meetings and take initial responsibility for departmental staff welfare
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
