Head of Design & Technology

Blenheim High School, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 9BH

6 days remaining to apply

Job start date
1 September 2023
Closing date
27 March 2023 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
13 March 2023

Job details

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Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Subject: View all Design and technologyjobs
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Contract type: Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary: Salary negotiable

What skills and experience we're looking for

To ensure that the department:
- delivers engaging, differentiated and well-planned lessons typically guided by Blenheim’s 10 Teaching and Learning non-negotiables;
- ensures students of all ages are supported and challenged as necessary and achieve optimum levels of engagement with school life;
- is supported and challenged as necessary thus ensuring that the student experience and progress is maximised;
- maximises student attendance through the delivery of creative, innovative and rewarding lessons;
- role models excellent practices, going ‘above and beyond’, intervening with students outside the curriculum so they ‘catch up’ as quickly as possible;
- supports and challenges Heads of Year so that underachieving students have barriers removed from their learning and regularly show good learning behaviours including being properly equipped for lessons;
- is effectively led and managed so protocols are consistently followed e.g. deadlines are met, registers are taken, students’ have challenging starter activities, the main parts of lessons involve students applying their newly acquired skills or knowledge regularly and expediently etc;
- follows schemes of work with regular and consistent assessments providing students with high quality feedback which they are accountable for acting upon via DIRT marking;
- develops a culture of shared practice where resources are shared, practices are discussed and peer lesson observations take place on a regular basis; typically half termly;
- communicates with parents on a range of issues, particularly where students are underachieving;
- communicates appropriate information to teaching and support staff;
- keeps abreast of national developments in specifications, examination requirements and teaching processes;
- regularly reviews the specifications taught, initiating and leading change as required, thereby ensuring that students within the Department follow the appropriate specification and schemes of work that meet legal requirements and provide challenge to enable students to fulfil their potential;

What the school offers its staff

Blenheim is a dynamic, exciting and supportive environment in which to work. The school opened in September 1997 with one year group and has grown to its current size of 1337 students on roll including over 200 in the Sixth Form. Blenheim is a mixed comprehensive and our reputation in the community is excellent. In 2019, Blenheim was characterised as a ‘good’ school following a Section 5 Ofsted inspection. Ofsted commented that the school had excellent capacity to continue improving. Blenheim converted to Academy Status in March 2012 and has developed many community and primary school links. Blenheim is a well–resourced school and is fortunate to have outstanding facilities. Together with a very supportive and well qualified governing body the school has invested significantly in several areas, not least in the appointment of high-quality practitioners and on-site infrastructure. Visitors often comment on the calm, purposeful learning environment that pervades. Blenheim sets high standards in terms of uniform with several ‘non-negotiables’ and there are strict expectations regarding behaviour and conduct, both in and out of the classroom. Ofsted described Blenheim as ‘calm, orderly and purposeful’ and our students as ‘respectful, kind and courteous’, which is what those of us who work at Blenheim see every day. As Blenheim students prepare to take up their place in society they are actively encouraged to become independent learners. Part of this process involves the integration of iPads across the curriculum; all teachers and 98% of students own one. Technological evolution is inevitable and this approach is key to ensuring that students develop attributes that will allow them to adapt in a rapidly changing world. The iPad complements daily teaching and allows students to easily access a multitude of interactive and innovative resources both in and away fromschool.

Commitment to safeguarding

Blenheim High School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Our Child Protection and Safeguarding policy along with our Equality policy can be found below. All successful candidates will be subject to DBS checks along with other relevant employment checks.