Subject Leader of Creative Arts
| Posting date: | 31 March 2026 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 30 April 2026 |
| Location: | Chester, Cheshire, CH3 5XF |
| Company: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | b7a350e6-3fd9-472c-b9e8-03c7a2f689d4 |
Summary
What skills and experience we're looking for
Ensure that Creative Arts provides an outstanding quality of education for all students.
Teach exceptionally effective lessons that ensure, over time, students know, remember and can do more.
Construct a Creative Arts curriculum that is ambitious, rigorous and compliant with the National Curriculum. This includes Art-related courses, e.g., Photography.
Make sure the curriculum is carefully and coherently sequenced so that students develop expertise in Creative Arts and their wider cultural capital.
Implement appropriate adaptations so that all groups of students know, remember and can do more over time and achieve the same endpoints.
Develop subject-specific approaches to teaching that ensure subject matter is presented clearly and logically; assessment is used systematically to identify misconceptions; and direct feedback helps students to make progress.
Ensure assessment in Creative Arts is used to help teachers check students’ understanding.
Be responsible for the environment in the Creative Arts faculty, ensuring it is calm, purposeful and supports learning.
Strategically deploy the relevant staff in the faculty to ensure the curriculum is highly effective.
What the school offers its staff
Membership to the Teachers Pension SchemeAccess to the Employee Assistance Programme
On site parking
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
Ensure that Creative Arts provides an outstanding quality of education for all students.
Teach exceptionally effective lessons that ensure, over time, students know, remember and can do more.
Construct a Creative Arts curriculum that is ambitious, rigorous and compliant with the National Curriculum. This includes Art-related courses, e.g., Photography.
Make sure the curriculum is carefully and coherently sequenced so that students develop expertise in Creative Arts and their wider cultural capital.
Implement appropriate adaptations so that all groups of students know, remember and can do more over time and achieve the same endpoints.
Develop subject-specific approaches to teaching that ensure subject matter is presented clearly and logically; assessment is used systematically to identify misconceptions; and direct feedback helps students to make progress.
Ensure assessment in Creative Arts is used to help teachers check students’ understanding.
Be responsible for the environment in the Creative Arts faculty, ensuring it is calm, purposeful and supports learning.
Strategically deploy the relevant staff in the faculty to ensure the curriculum is highly effective.
What the school offers its staff
Membership to the Teachers Pension SchemeAccess to the Employee Assistance Programme
On site parking
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.