Art and Design Teacher

Art and Design Teacher – Outstanding Southwark Secondary School

Role: Art and Design Teacher

Salary: Inner London MPS / UPS

Job type: Full Time, Permanent

Start date: September 2025

Job overview:

Our Secondary Academy is now recruiting for an Art and Design Teacher to join us for the next academic year (2025 / 26). We believe this is a truly fantastic opportunity for a passionate Art and Design Teacher to become part of a well-established, highly collaborative and successful visual arts team that works hard to ensure that students enjoy a challenging, dynamic and rewarding visual arts curriculum.

This is a full-time Art and Design Teacher opportunity that offers a competitive MPS + Inner London salary, commensurate with experience. This role would also be suitable for ECTs and experienced Teacher alike.

If this sounds like an environment within which you would like to work, apply to join our team from September 2025. The successful applicant will be enthusiastic, flexible, well organised and able to work as part of a team, as well as having the ability to work alone when required.

We deem this to be a great position on the basis that;

• We offer a vibrant and committed visual arts department that is passionate about art and dedicated to supporting students throughout their learning experience and securing the best possible outcomes
• We offer pupils the very best in learning opportunities by delivering high-quality teaching via our bespoke curriculum, alongside inspiring extracurricular opportunities
• We believe in developing staff into outstanding practitioners through our excellent CPD programmes
• This is further supported through our membership of the Academy Trust which provides regular teach-meets and co-operative training sessions within the trust to facilitate staff and student growth

Art and Design Teacher - Key responsibilities:

• Set high expectations that inspire, motivate, and challenge students
• Promote good progress and outcomes by students
• Demonstrate good subject and curriculum knowledge
• Plan and teach well-structured lessons
• Adapt teaching to respond to the strengths and needs of all students
• Make accurate and productive use of assessment
• Manage behaviour effectively to ensure a good and safe learning environment

Apply for this Art and Design Teacher opportunity by sending your CV to Christopher at Clarus Education. You will be contacted by your personal consultant (if shortlisted) for the Art and Design Teacher role within 48 hours.

We are dedicated to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment. As an Art and Design Teacher, you will have a safeguarding responsibility if appointed. The successful Art and Design Teacher candidate will be subject to enhanced clearance through the Disclosure and Barring Service and employment will be subject to references. This Art and Design Teacher post is not exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

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Art and Design Teacher – Southwark