DT Teacher

Shire Oak Academy, Walsall, West Midlands, WS9 9PA

19 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 January 2026

• Closing date

  12 October 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  23 September 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
• Subject: Design and technology
• Working pattern: Full time: Term time only
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: MPS/UPS

What skills and experience we're looking for

Our Design and Technology Department is led by a new Subject Leader for Design and the department offers a wide and varied KS3 curriculum including resistant materials, graphics, CAD/CAM, food and textiles. The KS4 offer currently includes vocational Engineering and GCSE Food preparation and nutrition and is looking to offer GCSE Product Design from September 2026. The department also offers the popular OCR A Level Product Design course.

The facilities in Design Technology include 2 workshops, a well-resourced computer suite, a CAD/CAM room equipped with a new laser cutter and 3D printers and a food room. The department is well looked after and maintained by two DT technicians. There are currently 3 full time DT teachers and 2 members of the senior team who are specialists in DT that also teach in the department and we are looking for one further DT teacher to teach across the whole spectrum of DT, specialising in RM and engineering as a preference with the ability to teach other aspects and some KS3 art.

We encourage you to visit to see the department and meet the team having read the full application pack. You’ll be pleasantly surprised!

What the school offers its staff

At Shire Oak Academy, we will invest in you and support you to reach your potential. As a school we are only as good as the people we work with and to ensure that we get the best from our young people, we need to make sure that we also get the best from our staff. Relationships matter and this is at the heartof what we do every day in our school and as one of 12 schools within the Mercian Trust.

Shire Oak Academy is not the easier school to work in currently, but we encourage you to visit to see we are far more than our most recent Ofsted report. We have a new Leadership Team, led by experienced Headteacher Matthew Everett and we would welcome applications from those wishing to join us on the exciting journey that Shire Oak is currently on. We are a community secondary school in Walsall Wood and proud of our inclusivity. Our ethos is built upon #BeIncredible and we accept that young people are going to make mistakes, but through positive interactions and support we will help to ensure that they fall less often and can reflect and learn from their mistakes and #BeIncredible in all that they do . Through our House System, and form tutors, we provide the care and support that is needed for all individuals and their families, including healthy competition. Everyone within the academy is expected to be an active member of their house, students and staff alike!

As well as offering a knowledge rich curriculum, which includes the full spectrum of creative subjects, we also offer an extensive enrichment and extra-curricular programme. Our drama shows are as good as what you would see in the local theatres, our sports teams are committed and driven taking part in local and regional competitions, and our wide array of trips provide awe and wonder for our young people. If there is an opportunity to improve the cultural capital of our young people, we will always be open to ideas.

The design of our building is unique, a huge campus at the highest point in Walsall with incredible views and huge open spaces, with top of the range facilities, including sport, technology and photography spaces.

Come and see what Shire Oak Academy has to offer, you’ll be pleasantly surprised.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Applying for the job

Apply for the job by following the link below.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Shire Oak Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1297 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Shire Oak Academy website
• Email address: hrmatters@merciantrust.org.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/shire-oak-academy

Arranging a visit to Shire Oak Academy

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email hrmatters@merciantrust.org.uk.

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