Director of Art and Design

About this Role

 The Deepings School is a mixed 11-18 comprehensive school at the heart of The Deepings, a vibrant, growing community in South Lincolnshire. We have high expectations of our students during the seven years that the majority of them are part of our school family. We have equally high expectations of all parents/carers and members of staff and we know that you have high expectations of us, too. At The Deepings School we place great emphasis on partnership and co-operation between parents, students and staff to ensure each child receives the best possible education. We encourage and welcome dialogue with all stakeholders of the school to achieve our aim of sustained improvement in all areas.

Our culture of care and positive relationships provides students with the confidence and independence they need to succeed both inside and outside school. We are also committed to ensuring that our students are positive leaders, strong problem-solvers, and develop the life-skills required to prepare them for life after school.

Main Purpose

• To provide effective leadership and management of the Art and Design department
• To ensure high levels of achievement for all students in Art and Design
• Responsible for the work, administration, and development of the Art and Design department
• Lead an aspect of whole school improvement

Duties and Responsibilities

Leading Teaching & Learning

• Ensure effective teaching and learning strategies are in place across the whole department in support of the school improvement plan
• Lead teaching of Art and Design, implementing a progressive and challenging curriculum
• Implement teaching and learning methodologies in the department as set out by the school’s Senior Leadership Team
• Monitor and evaluate standards of teaching, student progress, and classroom management across the department
• Ensure assessment within the department is of the highest standard
• Undertake Quality Assurance, identifying areas of strength and areas for development
• Set high expectations for staff and students
• Plan and oversee educational visits and/or events appropriate to the curriculum or subject area
• Provide evidence of subject contributions to students’ wider development (e.g., SMSC)

Working with Others

• Actively support the school and trust’s values and vision through the work of the department
• Make a positive contribution to the wider life of the school
• Work with other Heads of Department, Middle Leaders, and Senior Leaders on curriculum and school-wide issues

Leading and Managing Staff

• Lead and motivate the team, ensuring a focus on improving student outcomes
• Encourage effective teamwork, collaboration, sharing, reflection, a joint sense of purpose, and a supportive team culture
• Ensure all team members maintain high professional standards and follow policies, procedures, and expectations of the school
• Lead well-organised, focused, and productive department meetings
• Develop the department to be an example of excellence to others within the school
• Demonstrate commitment to good work-life balance through modelling good practice and considering the impact of decisions on workload across the team
• Appraise staff and contribute to their professional development

Resources

• Manage the department’s budget and resources, complying with Anthem policies and procedures, to ensure maximum benefit for students
• Ensure the department accommodation provides a positive and safe environment which promotes well-being and high achievement

Duties of Leadership Team

• Model good practice (professionalism, appearance, dress code)
• Support all staff
• Promote the ethos of the school in the wider community

Under the direction of the Headteacher, the Director of Art and Design may be required to carry out the following activities:

• Attendance at some SLT meetings
• Attendance at whole school functions
• On call throughout the day
• Meet and Greet students
• Duty rota
• Detention duty rota
• Lunchtime presence on some days
• Lead and develop new initiatives (whole school roles)
• Lead/Chair meetings as required
• Attendance at Governor/Trust meetings as required
• Deliver assemblies
• Deputise for Leadership Team as required

Anthem Schools Trust is committed to creating a diverse workforce. We’ll consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to sex, race, religion, belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, pregnancy, maternity, age, disability, marriage or civil partnership.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and require all staff and volunteers to share and demonstrate this commitment. The successful candidate will have to meet the requirements of the person specification and will be subject to the relevant pre-employment checks which will, where applicable, include a health check, an enhanced DBS check, the Children’s Barred List check and satisfactory references.

It is an offence for an individual who has been disqualified from working with children to knowingly apply for, offer to do, accept, or do any work in a ‘regulated activity’. The position advertised is a ‘regulated activity’.

We will carry out an online check on all shortlisted applicants. We reserve the right to end the closing date early.