Teacher of ART and DT - West Moors Middle School

We have an exciting opportunity for someone to join our incredible school, teaching Art & DT. This is a part time position for 3 days per week on a Monday, Thursday and Friday (wanted for start after October half-term 2025 / January 2026).

Having attained a ‘Good’ in our latest Ofsted inspection (February 2022), we are proud of our Rights Respecting School that places the children at the heart of every decision made.

West Moors Middle is a nurturing environment for everyone in our school family, where we work together to fulfil our school’s ethos of vision: ‘Thriving to achieve our best together- spiritually, morally, physically and academically in the community’.

We wish to appoint someone who:

• is an enthusiastic and dynamic classroom practitioner with a strong commitment to high quality teaching and learning
• is sensitive to the needs of children and their families and is keen to build on our close relationships with parents/ carer's and the local community
• enjoys working as part of a small and friendly team and build positive relationships
• is fully committed to enabling all children to become caring, respectful and happy individuals with enquiring minds and a thirst for learning
• has high expectations of pupil achievement and behaviour
• is flexible, hard-working, committed, can manage their time effectively and able to use their own initiative
• has excellent organisational skills

In return we can offer:

• inspiring children who are enthusiastic, hard-working, and are keen to learn
• a child centered school community with an ethos of caring and respect for all
• a supportive and friendly staff team
• professional development opportunities, building on your previous skills and experience
• dedicated PPA time
• the chance to join a team who care about our children and who are committed to continuous improvement
• a child centered working environment within a small village school

West Moors Middle School values the diversity of our workforce and welcomes applications from all sectors of the community.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people; this is a commitment which we expect all staff and volunteers to share. The successful candidate will be required to have a Disclosure and Barring Service check in line with the Governments safer recruitment guidelines.

The salary quoted is the annual salary for the position at the time of advert.

This role is UK based and your Right to Work will need to be established as part of the appointment process.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974. The amendments to the ROA 1974 (Exceptions Order 1975, (2013 and 2020)) provide that when applying for certain jobs and activities, certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. The MOJ’s guidance on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975, provides information about which convictions must be declared during job applications and related exceptions and further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.

Keeping Children Safe in Education

West Moors Middle School will conduct online searches of shortlisted candidates. This check will be part of a safeguarding check, and the search will purely be based on whether an individual is suitable to work with children. All aspects of social media and internet searches will be conducted. As care must be taken to avoid unconscious bias and any risk of discrimination, a person who will not on the appointment panel will conduct the searches and will only share information if and when findings are relevant and of concern.