25 days remaining to apply

  • Job start date

    1 September 2025

  • Closing date

    28 April 2025 at 9am

  • Date listed

    1 April 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Head of department or curriculum

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Key stage

Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5

Subjects

Art and design, Design and technology

Working pattern

Full time

Contract type

Permanent

Pay scale

MPS / UPS

Additional allowances

TLR 1a (£9,782)

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are seeking an outstanding individual with drive, passion, enthusiasm and ambition to lead our Technology and Art Department. This is an opportunity for an excellent classroom practitioner with strong subject knowledge and experience at teaching across KS3 to KS5 to take our Technology and Art department and outcomes to the next level. Ability to teach engineering to KS5 is essential.

This is an exciting opportunity to:

  • Shape an Inclusive Curriculum: Lead the design and delivery of a forward-thinking curriculum that promotes equity, fosters social justice, and ensures all students receive a meaningful and enriching experience.
  • Drive Continuous Improvement: Identify areas for growth, supporting the team to have mastery of their subject.
  • Empower a Dynamic Team: Mentor and inspire staff, fostering a culture of collaboration, creativity, and continuous improvement in the classroom.

As a leader you are inspirational, forward thinking and put students at the heart of everything you do. You are creative, dynamic, empathetic and have a natural ability to lead and empower both students and staff. You hold the highest expectations of yourself, your staff and your students and recognise the importance of the curriculum both inside and outside the classroom, and are innovative in your commitment to both, ensuring that Technology and Art always has a high profile within the school.

You will have excellent organisational, planning and communication skills and have high expectations of all students to secure the best outcomes. You believe that all students are capable of success and recognise that success comes in different forms. You will be strategic in your approach to curriculum and assessment, ensuring that one is shaped by the other to improve outcomes for our young people.

Everything that we do here at Teignmouth Community School is driven by our belief that we are all capable of being a slightly better version of ourselves tomorrow than we are today. This is underpinned by the values that, we believe, will ensure that we are all always working to be the best version of ourselves.

By working hard and never giving up we remain open to limitless opportunities for progress. We firmly believe that you have not failed until you stop trying.

As a community we have a responsibility to be kind and care for each other. We don’t need to agree with everyone, we don’t even need to understand everyone but there is absolutely nothing, other than our own fear, that stops us from accepting everyone.

And only by joining in can we develop and grow. Our characters are like muscles: if we don’t exercise them, if we never push ourselves beyond that which is comfortable then we will never grow.

Our unwavering commitment at Teignmouth Community School is to challenge and support every member of our community to be the best version of themselves.

If this sounds like the kind of community you would like to belong to and you are confident you can lead our Technology and Art team, then please apply.


What the school offers its staff

Teignmouth Community School has excellent facilities, highly qualified teachers and caring pastoral staff. There is no limit to what young people can take part in and achieve here. We believe that young people who are cared for and experience success (whatever that looks like for them) will thrive at school and beyond. Achieving that is our sole job and one that we take very seriously.

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.

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How to apply
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Additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

About Teignmouth Community School, Exeter Road

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 18
Education phase
Secondary
School size
942 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 18
Ofsted report
View Ofsted report
Phone number
01626 774091

Teignmouth Community School, Exeter Road is a vibrant 11-19 secondary school with excellent facilities, highly qualified teachers and caring pastoral staff.

We believe that young people who are cared for and experience success (whatever that looks like for them) will thrive at school and beyond. Achieving that is our sole job, and one that we take very seriously.

Arranging a visit to Teignmouth Community School, Exeter Road

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email Rebecca.flint@teignmouthschool.co.uk.

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