Faculty Leader – Expressive Arts

Post title: Faculty Leader – Expressive Arts

Responsible to: Headteacher

Location: St Cuthbert’s RC High School

Salary: Leadership 6-10, £58,569-£64,691

Term of contract: Permanent

Hours per week: 32.5

Start date: January 2027 (or earlier, if possible)

Closing date: 14 June 2026

St Cuthbert’s RC High School is seeking to appoint an exceptional Faculty Leader for Expressive Arts. This is an exciting opportunity to join the Trust at a time of ambition, growth and continued development across our schools.

This leadership role offers the opportunity to lead and shape a vibrant Expressive Arts faculty, ensuring the highest standards of teaching, learning and student achievement.

Our Mission:

Our Trust Mission is simple: to make Christ known, making lives better for our communities, our children and young people.

Our Values – One of Hope:

Inspired by St Teresa of Calcutta, we are people of hope. We have a complete belief in the future we will build together. By offering our children, staff and schools’ opportunities to grow and flourish, we make aspiration and ambition a reality. Our people, just like St Teresa are relentless and fiercely ambitious. We will always reach for that which seems to be just out of our grasp.

One of Courage:

As modelled for us by St Teresa of Calcutta, we will have the courage to do what is right. As a community, we will not shy away from making decisions that ensure our communities thrive. We will be brave in our actions. As a truly Catholic organisation this courage will be most apparent in how we collectively support the most vulnerable.

One of Innovation:

St Teresa of Calcutta changed the world. Together, we will always be pursuing new ideas and best practice in all areas of our work. We will prepare our children and young people for the world that awaits them. A world which they will shape and change.

Purpose of the role:

As Faculty Leader for Expressive Arts, you will provide strategic and operational leadership across the faculty, ensuring excellence in quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, and leadership.

You will lead, inspire and develop colleagues, shaping a clear vision for the faculty an ensuring consistently high standards of teaching and learning.  The role includes responsibility for curriculum design, staff development, performance monitoring, and securing strong outcomes for all pupils.

You will play a key role in whole-school improvement, working closely with senior leaders to drive forward teaching and learning priorities and ensuring the faculty contributes fully to the life of the school.

We are seeking an individual who:

• Is an outstanding classroom practitioner with a strong track record of improving outcomes.
• Has proven leadership experience and the ability to motivate, inspire and develop others.
• Has a deep understanding of curriculum development, assessment and raising achievement across KS3 and KS4.
• Can analyse performance data effectively and implement successful improvement strategies.
• Has the ability to lead strategically across multiple subject areas within Expressive Arts.
• Demonstrates a commitment to inclusion, ensuring all pupils access a rich and ambitious curriculum.
• Has excellent interpersonal and communication skills, working effectively with staff, pupils, parents and stakeholders.
• Is committed to innovation, enrichment and high-quality extra-curricular provision.
• Fully supports the Catholic ethos and values of the school.

We can offer:

• A supportive and dedicated Local Governing Body and Staff.
• Highly effective safeguarding procedures.
• A working environment where all feel valued and respected.
• Supportive colleagues and governors with a clear vision and high aspirations for the school.
• A highly dedicated and inspirational team.
• A commitment to relevant, personalised Continuous Professional Development.
• A happy, calm and welcoming working environment.
• Opportunities to work within the wider STOCCAT team.
• Teachers’ Pension Scheme.

Prospective candidates are warmly welcomes to visit the school.  Please contact the school to arrange an appointment.

The Trust is committed to welcoming individuals regardless of age, disability, ethnicity, faith, gender identity, sexual orientation or marital status or whether you are pregnant or on parental leave or from a socio-economic background. We welcome applicants from all communities and from people that identify with those characteristics.

Commitment to Safeguarding:

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment.  The post you are applying for is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1074 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2013).  All appointments will be subject to an enhanced DBS check including Children’s barred list check and satisfactory references, including your suitability to work with children.  Information provided by you or the Disclosure and Barring Service will be dealt with in a confidential manner in accordance with the DBS’s Code of Practice. Applications will only be considered from individual applicants on our standard application form, and not via CV alone or agencies. An online search will be performed on all shortlisted applicants in accordance with the Trust’s safeguarding procedures and Keeping Children Safe in Education statutory guidance.  All shortlisted applicants will be required to complete a form for self-disclosure of cautions and convictions.

Shortlisting date: TBC

Interview date: TBC