Teacher of Art (Maternity Cover) - Full-time

Leigh Academy Tonbridge, Tonbridge

• Ref:KCC886-5455-299T
• Posted:16/10/2020
• Pay:MPS/UPs
• Start Date:January 2021
• App Close Date:30/10/2020 at 10:00
• Interviews:tbc

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Teacher of Art (Maternity Cover)

Academy:  The Hayesbrook School, Tonbridge, Kent

Salary/Grade: MPS/UPS

Start date: January 2021

Advert Reference: OCT20208250

Closing date for applications: 10.00am on Friday 30 October 2020

The Hayesbrook School

The Hayesbrook School is a vibrant non-selective 11 – 18 Academy for boys, with a mixed sixth form. Our vision is simple - to ensure that all of our students achieve beyond expectations and flourish as confident learners with the highest aspirations, ready for the university or careers of their choice and also ready for the world in which they will work and live. We are relentless in our pursuit of the very best for all our students.

We are looking for a talented and dedicated teacher to join us in January 2021 to cover our vacancy which arises due to maternity leave. The role will be for up to one year.

Our successful Art department has an excellent track record. Student engagement and our shared expectations are high meaning students achieve well; they make us proud every day.

The length of your experience as a teacher is less important to us than your ability to motivate and inspire. Our new colleague will have an unstinting belief that every young person, whatever their starting point can make and sustain exceptional progress and that our purpose is to change lives.

We are excited to receive applications from newly qualified teachers ready to start a brilliant new career with us just as much as more experienced colleagues looking for their next step.

Staff at The Hayesbrook School enjoy excellent support, creative and high impact weekly professional development opportunities as well as a two week October half term. The Academy is a 5 minute walk from Tonbridge mainline station with quick rail links to the south coast, London and towns across Sussex, Surrey and Kent.

The contract is to cover maternity leave of the substantive post holder and will end on the date the substantive post holder returns to work.

For more information visit www.hayesbrook.kent.sch.uk  

Application information:

Please follow the link to our website to complete an application form. No CVs accepted. Application forms should be sent to careers@brooklearningtrust.org.uk by 10am, Friday 30 October 2020.

To arrange an informal telephone call with the Executive Principal, please contact the HR Department for the Brook Learning Trust on 01580 712754  ext 332/331 or careers@brooklearningtrust.org.uk.

Please ensure that your application clearly states why you are suitable for this role and why you would like the chance to work at The Hayesbrook School with our brilliant young people.

Suitable candidates will be contacted as soon as possible after the closing date.

For more information visit: www.brooklearningtrust.org.uk

Information about the school

‘Behaviour and attitudes are exceptional’ Ofsted, 2022.

‘Staff are proud to work at the school. There is a strong culture of collaboration and sharing.’

The school’s small size means that all pupils are known, valued and nurtured.’

'Senior Leaders have a passionate and ambitious vision about providing high-quality education for all pupils at the school…senior leaders are relentless about raising standards and maintaining high expectations by keeping a high profile around the school.’

Joining us at Leigh Academy Tonbridge: Building on the strengths of our legacy school, Hayesbrook Academy, Leigh Academy Tonbridge will open our doors to the first cohort of year 7 students, including boys and girls, for September 2023.

Hayesbrook Academy first opened in 1964. Having always been an all-boys school, our history before then is closely linked to the old Sussex Road Boys School, where records go back to the early 1900’s, and so we have a strong tradition of education provision in Tonbridge. The modern day academy has always been an 11-18 comprehensive school with a mixed sixth form, serving the local community.

Since being the first school in West Kent to gain Academy Status in 2010, the academy led the way in achieving excellent standards and in creating a multi-academy Trust. We were graded ‘Excellent’ by Ofsted in 2005, 2008 and 2009. The academic success and high standards have continued and inspections in 2013, 2017 and most recently in December 2022, found the school to be ‘good’ overall but recognised students’ behaviour and attitudes as ‘exceptional’ (graded as ‘outstanding’). Furthermore, the inspection recognised strengths in reading and literacy; careers provision; teachers’ subject knowledge; the support provided by the trust and the governing body; as well as identifying the ‘meticulous’ arrangements for safeguarding. The report also recognised “Senior leaders are relentless about raising standards and maintaining high expectations…”.

The Academy grows, adapts and thrives with each new cohort of students that are welcomed here every September and our recent move to Leigh Academies Trust has strengthened the academy’s ability to deliver the very best for our pupils.

Please find our Trusts Vision: https://vision2030.org.uk/

Job Contact Information

• Name:Suzanne Hutchings
• Address:Brook Street, Tonbridge, Kent, TN9 2PH
• Telephone: 01580 712 754
• Email: careers@brooklearningtrust.org.uk