Teacher of Design Technology (All disciplines considered)
Job ref: DT2025
Full Time – Permanent
Start Date: August 2025
Salary: MPS/UPS (£31,650 – £49,084 per annum)
We are looking to appoint subject experts and enthusiasts to our high achieving Design team who want to work in a school where:
• Design & Technology is valued by students and families;
• Collaborate with teachers in a department that achieves a Progress 8 score well above national average
• where the majority of GCSE Design & Technology students go on to study this career path further at A level;
• where Academy’s results have been significantly above national averages for many years and are in the top 1% nationally;
• where there is a strong academic ethos and high expectations of students;
• where behaviour management is centralised and teachers are enabled to flourish
They will be supported to plan and deliver great lessons across key stage 3 and 4 in order to achieve excellent outcomes for our students. The ability to offer teaching in one or more of the following areas: Food Preparation & Nutrition/Textiles/Product Design at KS3 is a requirement of the role.
The academy is well placed to offer a comprehensive support package to ECT from all routes into teaching, including PGCE, SCITT and Schools Direct. Both new and established teachers will be supported and encouraged to develop their practice by engaging in the numerous opportunities to collaborate and share ideas with colleagues within our Professional Learning programme. We will work together to ensure you continuously develop your skills and pedagogy.
The successful candidate will be required to undertake an Enhanced DBS Disclosure check.
This post will involve contact with vulnerable groups (children, young people and/or adults) and is therefore, exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. This exemption means that shortlisted applicants for this post will be required to declare all criminal convictions, cautions, reprimands, and bind- overs both spent and unspent in their application, before interview and regardless of the passage of time.
How to apply:
If you are interested in this post, please complete the application form online, including a cover letter detailing why you are a suitable candidate for the position should accompany your completed application form.
Should you have any queries regarding your application please contact school.
Please see the documents listed below, which may assist you in making your application:
• Applicant Pack
• Job Description
• Application and Recruitment Process document
Closing date: Sunday 27th April 2025 midnight
Interview date: Wednesday 7th May 2025
Rushey Mead Academy is committed to:
• safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment
• equal opportunities and equal value for staff and students, prevention of discrimination in its many forms
NO AGENCIES or CVs PLEASE
This post will involve contact with vulnerable groups (children, young people and/or adults) and is therefore, exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Disclosure check. This exemption means that shortlisted applicants for this post will be required to declare all criminal convictions, cautions, reprimands, and bind- overs both spent and unspent in their application, before interview and regardless of the passage of time.