Part-time Teacher of Design Technology
The Elton High School, Bury, Lancashire, BL8 1RNDeadline is tomorrow
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
15 May 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
30 April 2025
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Subject
- Design and technology
Working pattern
- Part time: 4 days per week
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Between £31,650 and £43,607
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are looking for an enthusiastic and energetic teacher of Design Technology to join our supportive and high-performing team from September 2025 on a 0.8 basis (four days a week).
You will work in a department that will value your ideas and creativity and with students who are positive and well-motivated. We welcome applications from both ECTs and experienced teachers alike. We offer excellent support for recently-qualified colleagues, equally a TLR would support careerprogression for a suitably experienced candidate.
What the school offers its staff
We have a constant focus on ensuring that all of our team feel supported to give of their best and to have a work life balance. Every staff member has a wellbeing day annually and we have regular Golden Weeks where no meetings are scheduled. We pride ourselves on taking a proactive approach to promoting the wellbeing of everyone in our school community. Our teachers enjoy working here, so this is a rare opportunity to join our staff in a key subject area, contributing to our next steps in pushing Elton to realise its potential as one of the very best schools in the Greater Manchester area.
Commitment to safeguarding
This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment.
Appointment is subject to a satisfactory enhanced disclosure from the DBS.
Please note that, in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education 2022, an online search will be carried out as part of our due diligence on shortlisted candidates.
Applying for the job
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to poolea@eltonhigh.bury.sch.uk
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About The Elton High School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1040 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- The Elton High School website
- Email address
- poolea@eltonhigh.bury.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 0161 763 1434
The Elton High School is a significantly oversubscribed school with a tradition of excellence. Our most recent Ofsted inspection (February 2022) reiterated the strengths that had been confirmed in the previous report (2017) and are firmly embedded across our school. The inspection team noted that ‘pupils are proud to attend’ Elton with an established culture of ‘high aspirations for what pupils can achieve’. Our students achieve well, with the inspectors being particularly impressed with the climate for learning and behaviour of our students – their ‘positive behaviour at all times is characteristic of the respectful culture of this school [and] their positive conduct reflects leaders’ high standards’.
The success of our school is built on the expertise of our high-quality staff. We have a strong system of staff training in place aimed at developing the very best practice, moreover we have a constant focus on ensuring that all of our team feel supported to give of their best and to have a work life balance. We pride ourselves on taking a proactive approach to promoting the wellbeing of everyone in our school community and consistently review opportunities to further promote staff wellbeing.
The school has excellent transport links with the M60, M61, M62 and M66 Motorways crisscrossing the area plus the Metrolink Light Rapid Transit system with a fast and frequent service from Bury centre through Manchester city centre to East Didsbury.
Arranging a visit to The Elton High School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email poolea@eltonhigh.bury.sch.uk.
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