Head of Art
Portslade Aldridge Community Academy
Brighton and Hove
- Expiring soon
- Salary:
- MPS/UPS +TLR2b + 3 hours per week leadership time
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2024
- Apply by:
- 7 May 2024
Job overview
Location: Portslade, Brighton And Hove, United Kingdom
Salary: MPS/UPS +TLR2b
Education Phase: Secondary
Working Pattern: Full-Time
Contract Type: Permanent
Application Deadline: Tuesday, 7th May 2024
About the school
Portslade Aldridge Community Academy (PACA) is a successful, forward-thinking Academy, which maintains high expectations of both staff and students. We are a state funded Academy and we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
About Aldridge Education
PACA is a member of the Aldridge Education family of schools, which locally also includes Brighton Aldridge Community Academy and Aldridge Adult Learning.
Aldridge Education is a charitable Trust of entrepreneurial community schools and colleges that help young people to reach their potential. We support our schools’ Principals and teachers in rapidly improving the quality of education on offer at early years, primary, secondary and sixth-form levels in order to transform the life-chances of our students.
Job Description
Are you passionate about fostering creativity and nurturing artistic talent in young minds? Portslade Aldridge Community Academy is seeking a dynamic and experienced Head of Art to join our vibrant secondary school community.
Overall Responsibilities
- Lead and manage the art department, inspiring and guiding a team of dedicated art educators.
- To liaise with SLT, HODs, HOYs, SENDCO, subject staff, support staff to ensure the needs of all students are met
- Develop and implement a comprehensive art curriculum that promotes artistic expression, critical thinking, and technical skill development.
- Create a supportive and inclusive learning environment where students feel empowered to explore their creativity.
- Work with the Senior Leaders and subject staff to establish short, medium and long term plans for the development and resourcing of your subject and ensure their effective implementation
- Organize and curate student art exhibitions and events to showcase their talents and celebrate their achievements, including through presenting students art work around the school
- To achieve good progress and narrow the gaps in the achievement of all groups of learners through:
• Securing high quality teaching which directly impacts upon pupil progress
• Designing and implementing a curriculums which facilitate the progress of all learners
• Running interventions to support students to achieve their best across your subject
• To work with other colleagues to maximise positive work ethic and a love of learning for your subjects
To download the full Job Description and Personal Specification, please follow the link to apply.
Benefits
Aldridge Benefits scheme
Cycle to Work scheme
Employee Assistance Programme
Free on-site parking
Opportunity to join the Teachers’ Pension Scheme or Local Government Pension Scheme
Refer a Friend scheme
Operating Norms
We believe that the way we operate at all times and with all partners is of paramount importance.
Our agreed operating norms are as follows:
We are Aldridge Education
The standard is excellence
We champion equality
We’re in the work together
We behave with integrity
We lead by example
We use time well
Safeguarding Statement
Aldridge Education is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of its students and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment.
Where the role for which you are applying involves engaging in regulated activity, it is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.
A copy of Aldridge Education’s Child Protection policy is available on our website at www.aldridgeeducation.org
Following successful application, Aldridge Education will carry out the necessary prohibition checks for all teaching staff, as well as for all candidates undertaking regulated activity.
If you are shortlisted for the position you are applying for, you will be required to complete a Declaration giving details of any relevant criminal offences and other relevant information relating to our safeguarding duty. Further information will be provided on that form.
Any offer of employment will be made conditional upon a satisfactory enhanced DBS check and barred list check (where applicable to the role in question).
If you are shortlisted for the position you are applying for, Aldridge Education will undertake online searches (including social media) in accordance with KCSIE 2023.
This role is considered exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. Which means standard and enhanced DBS checks will now always show all unspent records, including youth conditional cautions, meaning some previously unrecorded details will now be disclosed.
Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide. It is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.
About Portslade Aldridge Community Academy
- Portslade Aldridge Community Academy
- Chalky Road, Portslade, Brighton
- East Sussex
- BN41 2WS
- United Kingdom
About Portslade Aldridge Community Academy
Welcome to Portslade Aldridge Community Academy (PACA), a thriving 11-16 school rated Good by Ofsted (2016). Our results have been consistently improving for over three years and our Progress 8 score (0.3) is now the second highest in the city. Recognised as Brighton’s Most Improved School in the local media in 2017, our KS3 student intake grew over 80% year on year in 2017, and is set for further significant growth in 2018.
PACA has developed a strong learning culture of “Expert Learner” with students actively engaged in their own progress. High standards are maintained throughout the school with strong outcomes, particularly in the fundamentals of English and maths. We also have excellent outcomes in art and a focus on STEM. The current post-16 offer, a mixture of academic and vocational, is a key development priority through partnership work with local employers, leading organisations and our sister school in the city. Our digital media academy, an exciting collaboration between the two schools and over 40 local companies, is a great example of how these partnerships can deliver for our students.
In common with all Aldridge schools we also have a strong focus on developing the enterprise skills, attributes and confidence that help our students navigate through higher education and the many employment opportunities that will be available to them in the future.
PACA is so much more than a school. We work closely with, and offer our facilities to, the wider community as well as partnering with local primary schools and employers. Those facilities, which have benefitted from an £13m investment since we became an academy, include a STEM centre, Mac suite, specialist dance and art studios, and a community library. Our positive contribution to the community in which we live and work was recognised in winning the Brighton Community School of 2016 Award and the Most Improved School in Brighton & Hove Award 2017.
Aldridge Education
PACA is a member of the Aldridge Education multi-academy trust. We work in different regions across England where the opportunities and prospects for young people are often most limited, and where the introduction of our entrepreneurial approach to education can have most benefit.
We are a values-driven organisation with a commitment to non-selective, inclusive schools, providing children and young people with an exceptional educational experience. Our goal is that, by the age of 25, all Aldridge graduates will have experienced an outstanding and enjoyable education and be able to sustain the life of their choice.
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