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Head of Technology

Future Academies Watford, Watford, Hertfordshire, WD25 7HW

This job expired on 7 May 2021

• Job start date

  1 September 2021

• Closing date

  7 May 2021 at 9am

• Date listed

  22 April 2021

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: MPS +TLR2b £4,943
• Additional allowances:

  THE BENEFITS

  • The chance to make a difference to children’s and young people’s lives. Future Academies is of the belief that all children have the right to enriching education through a knowledge-rich and child-centric approach: our teachers can therefore make a dramatic impact on the lives of these children.

  • Fast career progression. Because knowledge and intelligence, rather than length of service, are lauded and rewarded at Future Academies, teachers and support staff can quickly take up great responsibility, adding to their already exceptional experience and knowledge, joining the SLT or writing for the Trust’s Curriculum Centre, where our in-house textbooks are produced.

  • Excellent CPD. The Trust is knowledge-centric and encourages CPD at all levels with excellent opportunities for swift career progression, within the Academy and Trust. This includes Leadership Development opportunities.

  • Knowledge-rich staff team. You will be working with a supportive leadership team, cohesive staff body, and very purposeful environment with excellent resources. Being part of a Trust of schools enables you to share knowledge across a wider range of educational professionals.

Head of Technology job summary

Future Academies Watford has an exciting opportunity available for an ambitious Head of Design Technology to join their team from September 2021. You will be joining a warm and committed staff body with a supportive Senior Leadership Team. This role is an excellent opportunity for a driven DT teacher ready to take the next step into middle management or an already experienced Head of Department looking for a new challenge. You will be teaching amongst talented teachers, delivering lessons to a consistently high standard and driving excellent results within your department. WHO YOU ARE You will have the ability to inspire young people, instilling a love of technology both as an academic subject and applying it to the world around them. You will be a tireless advocate for your subject and forward thinking in your approaches to development, change and improvement; we are developing an academic culture where the highest standards are expected of staff and students in line with the Future Academies belief system. As the successful applicant, you will have: • A strong academic record with a 2:1 degree or above from a leading university in your subject area • Great passion for your subject with high cultural literacy to deliver sophisticated lessons and continue to raise teaching standards within Design and Technology • Excellent oral and written communication skills • The ambition and determination we expect from all of our staff to continue striving for excellence • The enthusiasm and energy required to work with the children and young people in our schools • An unwavering belief in the power of education to change lives, as per our trust’s motto, libertas per cultum (freedom through education). We expect all teachers to share in, and feel empowered by, this concept

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.

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About Future Academies Watford

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1018 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Future Academies Watford website
• Email address: hannah.walker@futureacademies.org
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/future-academies-watford

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