Teacher of Art

Hours: Part time (3 days/week = 0.6 FTE)

•    Are you an innovative and confident Art teacher who delivers motivating, high-quality lessons?
•    Are you committed to driving up standards and ensuring that all students are challenged to reach their maximum potential?
•    Could you use your creativity and versatility to make a key contribution to the continued success of our Art Department?
•    Would you like to live and work in one of the most beautiful areas of the UK, teaching keen and dedicated students in a school with high ambitions for all?

Then we would welcome an application from you to join our successful and well-regarded Art Department.

This permanent position will start on 1 January 2025. It is a part-time role – 3 days per week (0.6 full-time equivalent). The days to be worked can be discussed at interview.

The successful candidate
We are looking for an ambitious and enthusiastic teacher with a broad range of art, design and craft skills to join our friendly and hardworking team. Our successful candidate will be:
•    passionate about the role that art and the arts more broadly can have in transforming the lives of young people
•    an innovative, confident and contemporary focused teacher
•    committed to providing students with challenging and engaging learning experiences that support them to make progress.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified teachers and early careers teachers (ECTs).

About the Art Department

Our Art Department delivers AQA fine art and photography at GCSE and AQA fine art at A level, with above-national-average exam achievement.

We have an impressive suite of rooms and studios with excellent facilities and are highly respected within the school and wider community. Our sixth form students have their own studio space, which also acts as a gallery space. 

We pride ourselves on our students’ ambitious and mature work underpinned with solid knowledge and understanding of fundamental skills.

This is a great opportunity for either a newly qualified or an experienced teacher to work in a friendly, dynamic environment and to play a full and active role in the continual development of high-quality teaching and learning.

About Ullswater Community College (UCC)

UCC is a happy school, where students and teachers expect to treat one another with respect.

We are a larger than average 11–18 comprehensive school serving the biggest catchment area in England. We received an Ofsted Good rating in April 2023 and were recognised as ‘Best Secondary School in Cumbria’ at the annual NewsQuest Educational awards in October 2023.

We’re intensely ambitious for our students, care deeply about all aspects of their success and value everyone’s unique differences. Our vision is to ensure that UCC is ‘best in county’ in all we do. We offer our teaching staff:

•    A welcoming and supportive community where staff really do matter – our Staff Wellbeing group is an integral part of the school culture.
•    An outstanding programme of continuing professional development at all levels, which provides opportunities to develop the skills and qualities to progress your career.
•    An excellent ECT programme, which is supportive and professionally run.
•    A committed, supportive and approachable senior leadership team with a clear vision for raising standards and maintaining a responsive and professional working environment.
•    Cycle-to-work salary sacrifice scheme.

We invest heavily in staff development, consider the well-being of colleagues in every development and encourage staff to be fully involved in whole-school and departmental learning initiatives.

We also pride ourselves on our fantastic students and curriculum offer. Our strong pastoral system is organised on a horizontal basis and most teachers are Form Tutors, in which important aspect of their work they are led and supported by Leaders of Achievement and Success.

This is an exciting time to be joining us – we have been named in the school rebuilding programme and anticipate a significant investment or new build in the near future.

To apply
We welcome applications using either the TES application procedure or our own application form. This can be downloaded from our website, where full job details and comprehensive information about the school can also be found. Please don't hesitate to contact us with any queries (hr@ullswatercc.co.uk).

UCC is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced DBS check.

Employment at UCC is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. This means that certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’ and do not need to be disclosed; if they are disclosed, the school cannot take them into account.

Closing date for applications: 12 noon Tuesday 10 September 2024
Interviews will be held the following week

Please note that we can contact only the successful applicants.