Art Lead

**Full Job Description**:
**Position**: Art Lead

**Salary**:Up to £31,000 per annum

**Location**: Belmont School - Rawtenstall, Rossendale, Lancashire.

**Hours**:37.5 hours per week - Monday to Friday (term time)

If you really want to make your mark in a rapidly growing business that is committed to improving the lives of children and young people, we have the role for you

**We now have a fantastic opportunity for an aspiring and enthusiastic Art Lead to join our close-knit team at Belmont School in Rossendale, Lancashire.**

**About the School**:
Belmont is an independent specialist day school for boys 11 to 16, catering for children with a wide range of needs. Our dedicated team work together to ensure successful outcomes for pupils who often arrive at the school with a troubled view of education and life.

We pride ourselves in steering children in the right direction, nurturing aspiration to progress them both academically and socially to encourage them to take pride in their achievements. Socially, we build confidence in our students so they are able to have a greater understanding of the wider community in which they live.

**About the Group**:
We are part of Acorn Care and Education and can promise you plenty of challenges, and a rich variety of opportunities to develop your career.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and passionate Art Lead to join this thriving specialist SEMH School. Responsible to the Deputy Head Teacher they will be responsible for the running of the Art department and to ensure that the department and the school is successful in achieving its aims. You will be an enthusiastic, flexible and determined individual who shares our values and is looking to develop their career in this specialist area.

**Who we are looking for?**

**Key Accountabilities**:

- Plan and teach well structured lessons
- Manage classes effectively, using approaches which are appropriate to pupils’ needs in order to motive them
- Manage behaviour effectively to ensure a good and safe working environment
- Managing staff within the Art department.

**Essential Criteria**:

- Experience of teaching Art KS3 and/or KS4 in a specialist or mainstream setting.
- A dedicated work ethic to ensure the needs of all pupils
- Is passionate about making learning effective and enjoyable
- DBS cleared and satisfactory references
- Ability to work on own initiative

**Why join us?**

**Benefits**:
Your health and wellbeing are important to us, so you’ll get an exceptional reward package including:

- Life Assurance
- Pension scheme with options to increase your contributions
- “Your Wellbeing Matters” - access to a wide range of first-class mental health support services and physical health checks

And a market-leading benefit offering through our Flexible Benefits Platform, Vista, enables you to choose the package that’s right for you, including:

- A wide range of health, wellbeing, and insurance benefits
- 100’s of discount options valid in the UK and abroad
- Cycle to Work Schemes
- Electric Car Purchase Scheme
- Critical illness cover

And that’s not all, we place the outcomes of the children and vulnerable young adults in our services at the heart of everything we do, so you’ll wake every day in the knowledge that your role will have a significant positive impact on the lives of others