Part-time or Full time Teacher of Drama (with opportunity to be Subject Leader, or Faculty Leader for an exceptional candidate)

About the role

Part-time or Full time Teacher of Drama (with opportunity to be Subject Leader, or Faculty Leader for an exceptional candidate)

Haileybury Turnford, Cheshunt, Hertfordshire

We require for January or April 2025, a well-qualified and inspiring Teacher of Drama.  It is an excellent opportunity for an experienced practitioner.  The successful candidate will teach Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4 and Key Stage 5 Drama.

There is also the opportunity for the successful candidate to be Subject Leader for Drama within the school’s Creative & Performing Arts Faculty, or for wider leadership responsibilities. 

Salary: MPS/UPS including London Fringe allowance (and TLR for leadership responsibilities)

Haileybury Turnford was rated Good by Ofsted, in all categories, in March 2022.

Haileybury Academy Trust is an academy trust sponsored by Haileybury, the leading co-educational boarding school, and is responsible for Haileybury Turnford.  The Trust sets the strategic vision for the school, ensuring the school meets the needs of its students and that there is excellence in all areas of school life, as well as financial security. 

The successful candidate will join our thriving Drama Department which is a popular subject within our school, with many co-curricular and trip opportunities provided to students.  The successful candidate would have their own designated classroom adapted for Drama teaching for all lessons.

If you would like to make a real difference to our students in a very supportive environment, we would love to hear from you.

It is an exciting time to join us.  When Ofsted visited in March 2022 they were very clear about the very high quality of education at Haileybury Turnford.

“Pupils love the fact that their school is friendly and welcoming.  They say that it is a school where they can be themselves.  This is because it is a very tolerant community.  Pupils feel very safe.  They attend regularly and promptly and take great pride in presenting and organising their work carefully.”

“The school helps pupils to become better citizens.  Teachers support pupils well, but pupils also support each other.”

“Pupils know that teachers always expect them to work hard.  They are grateful for this.  Pupils know that they can always learn in lessons.”

“Leaders have brought improvements to many areas of the school since the previous inspection, including behaviour and the curriculum.  Parents are very appreciative of the way the school has changed.”

“The school is a calm and orderly environment.”                                                [Ofsted, March 2022]

There are excellent professional development opportunities to support your own personalised learning, and managing staff workload and wellbeing is very important for us to ensure our staff love working at Haileybury Turnford.

Haileybury Turnford is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.  All appointments are subject to employments checks and a satisfactory enhanced DBS check. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974; the successful applicant will be expected to undertake a satisfactory disclosure.

We insist on the equal treatment of all current and prospective colleagues and will never condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.

Haileybury Turnford is committed to being an anti-racist organisation and we encourage you to view our Black Lives Matter statement which gives clarity on our anti-racist stance. In our relentless efforts to be an anti-racist organisation, we recognise the negative impacts of under representation and lack of diversity in the education system and in all aspects of our society. Therefore, for recruitment into any post, where we have 2 or more candidates of equal merit, candidates with protected characteristics will be given advantage over candidates without such characteristics. This is sometimes referred to as a ‘tie-breaker’ and is referred to as ‘positive action’ in the Equality Act 2010.

To help us meet our high standards and aspirations of a fully diverse and inclusive workplace,

Please apply to jarvisj@haileyburyturnford.com with a covering letter no more than two pages, and a completed application form (below).