Teacher of Art and Design
Gracemount High School
Salary: £33, - £50,
Hours: 35 per week
Gracemount High School is a small non-denominational secondary school with a roll of just over pupils which serves the community of Southeast Edinburgh. The school was founded in as a junior secondary school and since the late s has been a fully comprehensive six-year high school.
Gracemount High School was built under PPP and opened in. The school's leadership team comprise the Head Teacher, three Depute Head Teachers, a Senior Development Officer and a Business Manager. We have a complement of 50 teaching staff and 20 support staff.
We are a successful and thriving school community that serves a socially diverse community. Over 70% of our students live in quintile 1 and 2 of the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation. We are proud of every one of our students and our staff are skilled, conscientious, and caring.
We are looking to appoint a highly skilled, motivated, and experienced teacher of Art and Design who will join a successful and dynamic Expressive Arts faculty.
Our school values of Responsible, Respectful and Safe underpin our positive culture and ethos; where building the confidence and celebrating success of our young people is at the heart of what we do. For further information on our school please visit our website at>Salaries will be in accordance with the Scheme of Salaries and Conditions of Service for Teaching Staff in School Education.
This post is regulated work with children and/or protected adults under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act. The preferred candidate will be required to join the PVG Scheme or undergo a PVG Scheme update check. Where an individual has spent a continuous period of 3 months or more out with the UK in the last 5 years, an Overseas Criminal Record Check will be required. You will be required to provide this check. An unconditional offer of employment and commencement in the post will be subject to the outcome of both these pre-employment checks being deemed satisfactory.
We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.
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Happy to talk flexible working.