Are you an exceptional performing arts leader ready for your next challenge?
Do you thrive in creative environments and enjoy inspiring teams to achieve artistic and academic excellence?
If so, this is a rare opportunity to join our committed and highly imaginative Middle Leadership Team. Work alongside a collaborative staff body and help lead a dynamic group of creatives who are passionate about delivering outstanding performing arts education.
Job Title: Director of Performance
Location: Ellis Guilford School
Salary: Leadership scale L4-8 (£55, - £61,)
Start Date: September
Contract Type: Permanent
Working Pattern: Full Time
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About Our School:
The Ellis Guilford School is a thriving, larger than average inner-city, Secondary School with a clear mission ‘to ensure that the children attending our school have a better chance of success than if they attended any other school’. We deliver a broad curriculum, including emphasis on the creative subjects, to support our children to become confident, independent and balanced individuals, allowing them to excel.
Graded ‘Good’ by Ofsted in, Ellis Guilford School is at an extremely exciting point in its development journey. We strive for ‘EGScellence’ in all that we do!
About the Performance Department:
We believe at Ellis Guilford School that Performance—through Music, Dance and Drama—gives our children powerful ways to express themselves, explore identity, and understand the world around them. We deliver a rich, vibrant and ambitious Performing Arts curriculum that seeks to ignite creativity in our children and immerse them in the joy of artistic expression.
Our Performance team unite in the belief that all our children will succeed across the arts, finding new and imaginative ways to provide dynamic, inclusive and inspiring lessons.
About You:
As the Director of Performance at Ellis Guilford School, you will bring your passion for music and the performing arts and your deep knowledge of music, dance, drama and PE to lead and develop our Performance faculty to creative and academic excellence.
Our ideal candidate will:
•Be an experienced or aspiring leader, with previous leadership or assistant leadership experience, supporting colleagues to deliver inspiring, challenging and high‑quality performing arts provision.
•Have a track record of securing strong outcomes across the performing arts at Key Stage 3 and 4.
•Be resilient and relentless in the pursuit of ‘EGScellence’.
•Bring a ‘can do’ and ‘will do’ work ethic.
•Set high expectations and foster a culture where children respect others, the arts, and their creative environment.
•Have a strong commitment to our school values of integrity, ambition and equality.
Requirements:
To apply for the Director of Performance opportunity you must have:
·Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) and a degree in a relevant field.
·Recent successful teaching experience at Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4.
·Recent and proven experience of leading a team of people within an educational setting.
·The ability to create innovate resources and learning opportunities to engage learners.
About Creative Education Trust:
Creative Education Trust was established in to work in England’s post-industrial and coastal towns and cities. We are now a network of 17 schools educating 14, children and young people.
We have chosen to work with schools in challenging circumstances. We have successfully transformed schools previously deemed to be inadequate into good ones in order that all our children can have the best start in life. We are committed to providing educational opportunity for children of all abilities and to building cultural capital through a wide range of co-curricular activities. Curricular innovation through our Knowledge Connected programmes promotes creative, integrated and pro-active thinking so that our children are equipped for the challenges of the 21st century.
CET Benefits & Continual Professional Development
CET are committed to your learning and development, which is a continuous process that starts with your induction. The opportunities include a wide range of subjects from middle leadership and DSL training to autism awareness. We run annual conferences including Safeguarding and Learning and Teaching and have regular network meetings across the Trust.
We have a wide range of benefits that you are more than welcome to explore further in our Staff Benefits brochure attached.
Ready to Join Us?
Submit your application directly through our website.
Application closing date: Sunday 12th April
We warmly welcome visits to our school, and if you'd like to arrange a visit or confidential conversation with the Principal, please contact the Principal's PA on
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive suitable applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible. We will hold interviews as soon as we have received enough applications from suitably qualified applicants. If a successful appointment is not made, then we will repeat the process.
Please do not hesitate to contact the Principal’s PA on if you would like an update on your application and details of a potential interview date.
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