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HoF Design and Technology

Friern Barnet School, London, N11 3LS

This job expired on 4 April 2025 – see similar jobs

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  4 April 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  24 March 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Head of department or curriculum
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4
• Subject: Design and technology
• Working pattern: Full time: 27.5
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: MPR / UPR
• Additional allowances:

  TLR 1

What skills and experience we're looking for

This is an exciting opportunity for a bright and committed individual to lead a professional and committed team within a well-respected and successful school.

Are you an enthusiastic and ambitious leader who can raise standards across the school? Do you have the ability to motivate and challenge all our students?

We are seeking to appoint an exceptional teacher and leader to join us with the energy and enthusiasm needed to inspire and motivate both students and staff. The candidate must have high expectations and want to work within a school where we share an ambition for our students of all abilities. Applicants will have excellent interpersonal skills and the expertise to deliver inspirational learning experiences for young people of all abilities, in which all students can achieve their best. The applicant will be required to teach up to GCSE level.

What the school offers its staff

Friern Barnet School provides a comprehensive curriculum whilst maintaining a special emphasis on the creative arts. We are hugely ambitious academically for our pupils, ensuring that they secure the results to go on to good universities and on to fulfilling careers. We also want them to live lives which are personally and socially fulfilling, developing a love for art, music, dance, theatre and culture which will enrich the whole of their lives.

The school has a comprehensive induction programme and excellent professional development opportunities. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment. The successful applicant will be subject to enhanced clearance through the Disclosure Barring Service.

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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Additional documents

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

Design and Technology HOF 2025.pdf - 315 KB (opens in new tab)

About Friern Barnet School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 716 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Friern Barnet School website
• Email address: vacancies@friern.barnet.sch.uk
• Phone number: 020 8368 2777
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/friern-barnet-school

In line with our school motto, ‘Enjoy and Excel’, we are hugely ambitious academically for all our students. We also want them to live lives which are personally and socially fulfilling, developing a love for art, music, dance, theatre and culture which will enrich the whole of their lives.

Our desire is that students leave us as mature, independent learners who are also engaged and responsible citizens, ensuring that they secure the results to go on to further and higher education institutions and then on to fulfilling careers.

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