Head of Faculty: Art, Design & Technology

Northfleet Technology College, Gravesend, Kent, DA11 8BG

25 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  September 2026 (or sooner)

• Closing date

  6 February 2026 at 10am

• Date listed

  12 January 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Subject: Design and technology
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £32,916.00 - £51,048.00 Annually (Actual) TLR £12,516 depending on experience

Head of Faculty: Art, Design & Technology job summary

If you are you a highly effective teacher with an exceptional passion for Design and Technology, you are an excellent classroom practitioner who has a passion to support others and you have the drive to lead a curriculum team that can build curiosity and creativity - we want to hear from you!

We are seeking a creative and caring practitioner to lead our passionate team. We have excellent resources and a forward-thinking ethos, with the aim for all students to achieve the highest standards. This is delivered from Key Stage 3 through to Key Stage 5.

We are looking for a person to take on this exciting role who can demonstrate established teaching experience with strong leadership skills, the ability to set high expectations for both students and staff, capacity to work collaboratively and lead a team, a secure knowledge and understanding of the curriculum and pedagogy, who can innovatively move the team forward and a passion for 'going beyond' in developing staff and wider school improvement priorities.

This is an exciting time for the subject team, with funding and planning permission approved for a new multi-million-pound teaching block that includes dedicated Design Technology and Food Technology facilities. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work with the Leadership Team on shaping the internal design of this new space.

This position has a start date of September 2026 or sooner with a salary of M1-UPS3 (£32,916 - £51,048) Plus TLR 1b £12,516, dependent on experience.

If you relish the opportunity to work with a diverse & exciting teaching environment, with highly motivated students and a supportive Leadership Team, then Northfleet Technology College would welcome your application. This post has safeguarding responsibilities that require you to be engaged in regulated activity and contact with children.

All positions that involve working with children are exempt from the provisions of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. All applicants must therefore declare all previous convictions and cautions, including those which would normally be considered ‘spent’ except those received for an offence committed in the United Kingdom if it has been filtered in accordance with the DBS filtering rules.

Candidates applying for a vacancy will be asked to complete a Self-Disclosure form on which they will be asked to disclose any relevant convictions, court orders, reprimands, warnings, or other matters which may affect an applicant’s suitability to work with children.

In order to apply for this position, please complete and submit the NTC Application Form, CVs will not be accepted.

Appointment will be subject to satisfactory recruitment & vetting checks including 2 references. Our school and all its personnel are strongly committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children. The post is subject to safeguarding checks including an Enhanced Disclosure application to the Disclosure & Barring Service and in accordance with the requirements of Keeping Children Safe in Education (2022), NTC will undertake an online search via engines and social media platforms of publicly available information concerning all short listed candidates.

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

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Northfleet Technology College

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 963 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Northfleet Technology College website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/northfleet-technology-college

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