TEACHER OF ART
Positions at Soar Valley don’t come up very often, and this is a fantastic opportunity for a highly competent and enthusiastic teacher to join our very successful and well-resourced department from the beginning of the new academic year, August 2026. We offer a superb environment in which to continue or begin your teaching career, and we welcome applications from those wishing to offer full or part time, from both experienced teachers and ECTs.
The arts are a significant and thriving part of the curriculum at Soar Valley. The Art Department offers Fine Art, Graphics and Photography, and a large number of students opt to take the subjects at Key Stage 4. Results are very strong, thanks to the excellent leadership and fantastic team spirit of collaborative working within the team.
Ofsted judged Soar Valley to be an outstanding school in all categories in our last inspection in March 2025. We believe we have a unique ethos, and feedback from visitors reinforces this. Ours is a school with a vibrant mix of cultures, and where relationships between all are a real strength, which contributes massively to our success. We value and celebrate effort above all else with our students, constantly striving for them to be the best they can be. We are committed to high standards, raising achievement and developing excellence in our staff and students, and we do all of this within a very caring environment.
Amongst other things, as a Soar Valley member of staff you will benefit from:
• A strong personalised professional development programme, whatever your starting point
• A clear and well-structured induction programme to support you as you start in a new school
• Being part of a superb team of specialists, who work extremely effectively together and also show individualism in their approaches
• A culturally diverse and highly motivated student body
• Being in a school where relationships are a real strength and outcomes very strong.
• Excellent facilities to support learning.
Please see our website for further details, and contact Smita Stone, our Personnel Manager, if you require any further information.
Closing date: 3pm Thursday 22 January 2026
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. Applicants will be required to undertake pre-employment checks, such as an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check. Applicants who will be undertaking early and/or later years childcare (or the management of such childcare) will be required to complete a declaration that neither they, nor anyone who lives in the same household, is a disqualified person under the Childcare (Disqualification) Regulations 2009.