Head of Art (Maternity Cover)
St Helen and St Katharine
Abingdon, Oxfordshire
- New
- Job type:
- Full Time, Maternity Cover
- Start date:
- April 2025
- Apply by:
- 19 November 2024
Job overview
We are seeking an ambitious and experienced individual to be part of our vibrant Art Department.
The post holder should have strong leadership and management skills with the ability to inspire our students and will be teaching all year groups from year 7 to year 13, using visual skills such as painting, photography and printmaking. We have specialist teaching studios and workshops along with an art library and darkroom within the department.
This role is a fixed term covering a period of maternity leave commencing from April 2025 for one year.
What we offer
- Competitive salaries
- Generous holiday entitlement
- Staff Pension Scheme
- Diverse training and professional development programme
- Employee Assistance Programme – offering free and confidential advice
- Free use of the Sports Centre facilities including a fitness suite, ergo suite and group cycle studio
- Award-winning free school lunch, plus refreshments available in the staff room during the day and after school
- On-site parking
- Cycle to work scheme
- Free eye tests and annual flu vaccination
- Access to well-stocked school library
- Access to wide range of school events
How to apply
To apply for this position, please visit our website: www.shsk.org.uk/about/vacancies/ and read the job description and person specification and complete an application form. Completed application forms with a brief supporting letter addressed to Mrs Rebecca Dougall, Headmistress, should be submitted to recruitment@shsk.org.uk in the first instance and then sent to:
Human Resources Department
St Helen and St Katharine
Faringdon Road
Abingdon
Oxfordshire
OX14 1BE
The School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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About St Helen and St Katharine
Founded on Christian values, we enable every girl to discover and develop her own strengths. St Helen & St Katharine is a school where success is celebrated but not revered and our goal is to ensure that every girl achieves success as she defines it, so that she can believe in herself, her talents and her abilities.
We are one of the leading girls’ schools in the country and are justifiably proud of a tradition of high aspiration and academic achievement (our students achieved record breaking GCSE results with 77% A* this year). But we take just as much pleasure in the warmth of the atmosphere here and in our dynamic range of extra-curricular activities. From Minecraft to Mandarin, Silversmithing to Sailing, Board Games to Big Band and much more besides, our girls are given the space and opportunity to make their own choices and find their niche.
A welcoming 22 acre campus in Abingdon provides exceptional facilities that include a brand new state-of-the-art Sports Centre; Performing Arts Centre; extended Sixth Form Centre; Science Centre with 12 new laboratories, break out spaces and a 200sqm science themed glass atrium and a 3D Design Centre.
This is a friendly and happy place in which lasting relationships are built on kindness and respect. Our ambitions for our students are based upon them developing confidence and resilience and an open-minded and creative approach to learning and to life.
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