Teacher of Art - The Kingsway School
Contract: Permanent 
Closing date for applications:
1 April 2025, 11.00am 
Job Advert
Teacher of Art
Contract type: Full Time, permanent
Location: The Kingsway School, Gatley
Required from: September 2025
Salary: MPS/UPS
Closing date: 11am on Tuesday 1st April 2025
Interview date: W/C 7th April 2025
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
Details of the Role
Do you have a passion for Art and Design and working with young people? Do you have the enthusiasm to inspire young people to take part in creative pursuits? Are you dynamic with the drive and determination to take ownership over your own development as a teacher to be the best you can possibly be?
Here at The Kingsway School we are looking for someone who can join and enhance our fantastic team and hit the ground running. We pride ourselves on giving opportunities to develop their creativity, visual literacy and skill development through our broad curriculum at key stage 3 and key stage 4.
We have a fantastic team with a blend of experience who all bring something unique to our team. The successful applicant will be someone who has creativity at the heart of who they are and can bring this passion into their Art and Design lessons at Key Stage 3 and 4.
We are looking for someone who can make a real impact within our team bringing new ideas and experiences along with them. The successful candidate will inspire students to get involved in creative pursuits, contribute to the development of our extra-curricular provision and can lead in the classroom creating and teaching innovative lessons that inspire our young people to explore and communicate their ideas through visual medium.
No matter where you are on your current journey, if you feel like this is the place for you then we would love to hear from you.
In addition, there is the possibility of pastoral responsibility available with this role.
Please read our comprehensive recruitment pack to discover more about our school and about our Art Department.
Our pack includes details about:
• Our curriculum vision
• Our unique middle school and upper school model
• Our staff wellbeing charter
• Our bespoke ECT training program
• Our enhanced professional development opportunities
• Testimonials from current staff
About ELT
Education Learning Trust is a Multi-Academy Trust, educating over 3500 pupils from age 2 to 16 in the Greater Manchester area. We are very proud of our inclusive ethos to Collaborate, Empower and Achieve and provide over 490 employees with an inspiring and innovative place to work, with exceptional training and development opportunities.
As a Trust employee you will receive excellent benefits, including a highly competitive salary, well-regarded pension scheme, excellent career development opportunities and support for your health and wellbeing, with our award-winning employee assistance programme.
Our vision at ELT is to create an exceptional learning journey for all, by providing:
• exciting, innovative and challenging learning communities
• school improvement strategies arising from evidenced based research and professional enquiry
• opportunities for professional development and leadership
• a celebration of the diversity and uniqueness of individual settings
• Innovation in practice by recognising the value of learning partnerships, both locally and nationally
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
We ensure that we have a range of policies and procedures that promote safeguarding and safer working practices. This is in line with statutory guidance including Keeping Children Safe in Education and The Education Act 2002.
All offers of employment are subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records, online checks and vetting checks. It is an offence to apply for a role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020). This means that certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’ and do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account.
Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974.’
We are committed to fulfilling our Equality Duty obligations, including valuing equality and diversity and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
We are committed to employment practices that promote diversity and inclusion in employment regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, sex, marriage and civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity status, race, religion or belief.
We expect the successful candidate to have the necessary standard of spoken English, as described under Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016, the Public Sector fluency duty that requires state funded schools to ensure candidates for their customer facing roles have the necessary standard of spoken English (or English or Welsh in Wales).
Candidates should apply by completing the ELT application form, CVs alone will not be accepted in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE).
Please return applications to: recruitment@kingsway.stockport.sch.uk
For further details of this exciting opportunity, please see the job description and person specification.