Dates: Apply by : Monday 22nd April 2025 (12.00pm)
Start date: Autumn Term 2025 (negotiable)
Salary: MPS / UPS (+ NST payment £600)
Location: 152 Syon Lane, Isleworth, TW7 5PN
Contract type: Full-time
Contract term: Permanent
Do you want to work at an ambitious school with bright, well behaved and engaged learners? Are you interested in helping students to gain a deeper understanding of themselves and the world around them? An exciting opportunity has arisen for a passionate and talented Teacher of Art and Photography to play a key role in shaping the curriculum of our outstanding, multi-faith school. This role would suit an experienced teacher, middle leader or an individual with experience of senior leadership within a school.
Unique features of this role are:
* The chance to build upon the school’s first set of A level results in August 2025.
* The chance to work in one of the top performing all-through schools in England.
* A bespoke CPD package relevant to the successful candidate’s career stage.
Nishkam School West London is a flagship school for our Trust, offering all-through provision on an expansive 11-acre green site. Our students are bright, diligent and well mannered. The school achieved an Attainment 8 score 61 and a Progress 8 score of 0.91 in the 2023/24 academic year. Our Progress 8 for disadvantaged students placed us 27th in the country for 2023/24. The school achieved an outstanding judgement across all areas in its full Section 5 inspection in January 2024. Opportunities like these are few and far between and will interest those with creative minds and high aspirations, seeking to inspire a new generation of children through a virtues-led, multi-faith curriculum. The journey will be one of leading your classes to excellence as the school grows to capacity, which will be immensely rewarding for the right individual.
Background: Nishkam School West London is an innovative, state of the art, all-through 4-19 school. Nishkam’s outstanding primary school opened in 2013 and the secondary opened in September 2018. The school is part of a highly successful Multi-Academy Trust (6 schools, 2 nurseries; 1 vocational college in Kenya).
* “Pupils are proud to attend this aspirational school. Pupils feel valued as individuals within the school community. The behaviour of pupils is exemplary. Pupils enjoy attending the extensive range of clubs and the well-thought-out experiences, trips, and visits. Leaders ensure that all pupils can fully participate in these activities.” “Leaders are relentless in their desire to improve the school. Staff feel that leaders are considerate of their workload and well-being. They are proud to work at this school.”
* “The school has extremely high expectations for pupils’ behaviour. These expectations are modelled by all staff consistently. Disruption to pupils’ learning across the school is rare because the curriculum and teaching are thoroughly engaging. As a result, pupils consistently strive to succeed.”
* “Pupils are taught to be good citizens through exceptional personal development programmes. Pupils learn the value of making a positive contribution to society. They have very positive attitudes towards people with different backgrounds.”
Ofsted-January 2024
As a teacher at Nishkam School West London, you will work in a pioneering group, Nishkam School Trust (NST). NST is one of the first multi-academy free school trusts in the UK. The Trust has opened two free schools in Birmingham (a primary in 2011 and a secondary in 2012), both of which are judged Ofsted Outstanding, and a third, a primary free school in Wolverhampton. The Trust continues to expand and has recently welcomed a further two primary schools in Derby and Leeds into the Nishkam family. We are looking for a highly committed and innovative leader to work in close collaboration with other teachers in both the secondary and primary phases across the Trust.
NST has developed an inclusive, virtues-led, multi-faith educational approach that nurtures pupils of all faiths and those of no particular faith. The Nishkam ethos is to help grow a selfless mindset, aspiring to excellence as well as going beyond ourselves to serve others, to create supportive communities and to realise our true potential. This pervades every aspect of the school.
* I love working at this school because it is well managed.
* I feel well supported in this school. Whenever I have any concerns, I am able to voice them and am given support whenever needed
* A very strong SLT who consistently strive for excellent and a lovely place to work and develop.
* This is a fine school, and I am excited about the direction that we are going in. Wonderful school, wonderful students. Work is busy and the expectations are so high; both of those are real positives.
* I truly enjoy working at this school
Staff Survey Responses- Autumn 2024
The Role
The role will commence in Autumn Term 2025. You will:
* have the rare opportunity to work collaboratively with primary colleagues and play a key role in developing the secondary phase art and photography curriculum
* have a strong voice in shaping the everyday practice of the school as we develop and embed our ethos and routines, especially in learning and teaching
* have the opportunity to share your expertise with other subject teachers across the Trust
* be part of a global community of charitable initiatives.
This is an exceptional opportunity to work within a vibrant atmosphere and a supportive setting. Our school is a welcoming space for students of faith and non-faith. This is also true of our staff body.
The Environment
The school is based in 11 acres of green space in an impressive purpose-built single facility housing the all-through school.
Our expectations are that you will:
* believe all pupils can and will achieve highly
* build an environment through a virtues-led education that encourages compassion, humility, service; and recognises all humanity as one
* ensure excellence in learning, teaching and achievement in all of your classes within the context of a faith-inspired, virtues-led school
* ensure that standards of learning and teaching at GCSE and A Level are a benchmark for excellence and within the top quintile of all schools
* nurture a culture that cherishes childhood, stimulates the spirit of adventure and ignites a passion for lifelong learning
* develop and implement an enriched curriculum for the school that allows children to both further their own interests and explore new horizons
* develop and maintain the support and active involvement of parents in their children’s learning
* build and nurture links within the local community
* contribute to, and maintain the ethos of the Nishkam culture by drawing on best practice across Nishkam Schools, locally and nationally
* report to the Senior Leadership Team of Nishkam School West London
* work closely with the Local Governing Body
* work in collaboration with the Senior Leadership Team and teachers in both phases at NSWL.
Nishkam School Trust (NST) is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment. Any successful applicant will be required to undertake an Enhanced DBS check.