Teacher of Art & Photography

Salary: Mainscale (T1 to T9)

£30,000 to £46,525 per annum

Permanent

A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a Teacher of Art & Photography within a large, dynamic and forward-thinking school, working alongside and learning from experienced practitioners. We are looking for a creative, inspirational and skilful teacher to join the team.

This is an exciting time to join our school following our recent ‘Good’ Ofsted grading.

Harper Green is looking for teachers who;

• have a passion for their subject, and can instil this in our young people
• have an openness to continuous professional development
• have high expectations of standards and achievement
• be flexible, collaborative & resilient
• contribute to the wider curriculum and cultural capital of our students
• have the highest ambitions for our students, the school & yourself

In return we will offer you;

• an aspirational supportive Leadership Team and Governing Body.
• ambitious, motivated students.
• continuous professional development
• enthusiastic, willing and professional staff.
• a network of outstanding practitioners to collaborate with & learn from.
• a happy, supportive working environment with high expectations and standards.

This role is suitable for ECTs.

As an ECT at Harper Green, we invest in your professional development to ensure you have the best possible start to your teaching career. You will be assigned a mentor within your department, alongside a professional mentor who will offer regular drop-ins with precise, leverage feedback allowing you to refine your teaching practice. We operate an open door policy, enabling you to observe others and we encourage staff to use our technology available to record themselves and share best practice. This has allowed us to build a library of staff delivering best practice in our context to support staff in their development. Alongside this support, you will receive regular training in the form of whole school CPD, bespoke masterclasses for ECTs and access to our Research Book Club. We actively encourage our staff to engage with current research and ask all our ECT to participate.

A full information pack which includes the job description and person specification is on the Trust website.

If you would like to discuss this vacancy further, please contact the HR Team at vacancies@harpergreen.net

Required for Easter 2024

Closing date: Midnight on Sunday 11th February 2024

Interviews will be held on Thursday 15th February 2024

The trust is committed to safer recruitment and pre-employment checks will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed. The post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure Barring Service clearance. The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

The Trust is an equal opportunity employer and encourages applications from as diverse a group as possible.

Harper Green School is part of Leverhulme Academy Trust, we believe that nurturing and supporting staff in team work and collaboration is essential if we are to provide the highest standard of education for all students within the Trust.

Discovering dreams, achieving ambitions and transforming lives.

About Harper Green School

Harper Green School is a co-educational comprehensive located in Bolton. It was first established in 1927, and we are looking forward to the upcoming centennial celebrations. Our school has approximately 1250 students aged 11-16, making it noticeably larger than the average secondary school. The school site has seen extensive redevelopment and modernisation since its founding, and boasts a range of modern teaching facilities. The most recent of these being our B block – which houses a state of the art Dance studio, Drama studio, 3 modern classrooms and Humanities and Learning Hub department areas.

I am proud to be Headteacher of a school which truly serves its local community. We are a values driven school and there is a moral purpose to working at Harper Green, where we strive to transform the lives of our young people.

If this sounds like the type of school you could contribute to, then I would love to receive an application from you.

Head of School

Ms S Heppenstall

Values and ethos

Our core values are:

• putting students first

• having high expectation

• acting with integrity

Harper Green School is committed to providing educational and cultural capital opportunity for all students, regardless of background or academic ability. We achieve through our ambitious, well sequenced curriculums (including PSHRE), a plethora of enrichment opportunities and appropriate careers support across all year groups. The school has high expectations for behaviour and attitudes, develops young people who have pride in themselves and their school and encourages its students to carry that with them when they leave school.

WE ARE HARPER

“Discovering dreams, achieving aspirations, transforming lives”

For students, our values are to:

• work hard

• take part

• do the right thing

We are HARPER and this is how we do it here is central to our third value of do the right thing. Our HARPER attributes are to be: Honest, Accepting, Respectful, Proud, Engaged and Resilient.

As a school there are four main areas that want all our students to take responsibility for. Our aim is to make each individual central to their own education and support them in making positive choices and through doing so our students will become more committed, independent and resilient.

Learning – We are inspired to achieve through engaging and challenging lessons within a broad and balanced curriculum.

Personal Development – We believe that it is our responsibility to discover and nurture our unique talents through the “We are HARPER” attributes.

Experience – We endeavour to be confident and resilient and believe we can achieve this by challenging ourselves daily through new experiences.

Community – We recognise the positive differences we can make in society and how this can only be achieved through working together.