Subject Leader of Technology
Nicholas Chamberlaine School, Bedworth, Warwickshire, CV12 9EA25 days remaining to apply
Start date details
January/April 2027
Closing date
20 November 2026 at 9am
Date listed
26 October 2026
Job details
Job role
- Head of department or curriculum
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 4
Subject
- Design and technology
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full time equivalent salary
- £32,916 to £51,048
Additional allowances
TLR2d
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are looking for an exceptional full time Subject Leader of Design & Technology with the ability to provide strong and robust leadership, who has the highest expectations of both themselves and the students they teach. If you are enthusiastic about delivering high quality, innovative teaching, we offer a stimulating career advancement opportunity in a department ready to bloom.
Academic qualifications of the highest order are an essential requirement for the position. You will contribute positively and effectively to the extracurricular life of the school. You will be a leader with a proven track record of transformational curriculum leadership and pastoral growth who will be genuinely enthusiastic about our GST mission and bring to it personal integrity and a strong work ethic.
Develop ways to expand the reach and influence of NCS students by growing numbers and securing excellent provision.
Ensure the vision for the school is clearly articulated, shared, understood and acted upon effectively by all.
Develop an outstanding ethos of learning, commitment, contribution and enjoyment amongst students based on our shared vision of proud traditions, wide horizons and high achievement.
Ensure that strategic planning moves the school forward for the benefit of its students, by taking account of the diversity, values and experience of the school and its community at large.
Use national, local and school management data effectively, to monitor standards of achievement across the school and use this to plan for improvement in student outcomes.
Leading Teaching and Learning
Establish a culture of high expectation by negotiating ambitious targets with students and staff, challenging and supporting students to aspire to the highest outcomes.
Ensure a continuous school-wide focus on students’ achievement, using data and benchmarks to monitor, evaluate and review progress in every student’s learning.
Develop a successful learning culture to enable students to become effective, resilient, motivated and independent learners, committed to life-long learning.
Develop strategies to secure exemplary standards of behaviour and attendance.
Harness opportunities to broaden student’s experience with extra-curricular and enrichment activities.
Support and guide colleagues to use the most appropriate teaching and learning methods and resources to meet the needs of the full range of students.
Establish partnership with parents and carers to involve them in their child’s learning.
Celebrate student achievement.
Developing Self and Working with Others
Develop effective relationships and clear communication with all stakeholders.
Lead the professional development of colleagues through example and support.
Regularly review your own practice and take responsibility for your own personal development.
Support, guide and motivate tutors to provide outstanding academic and social guidance.
Build effective learning communities both through developing an active collaborative learning culture within the school and actively engage with other schools.
Celebrate the achievements of individuals and teams.
What the school offers its staff
Nicholas Chamberlaine School is committed to challenging educational and social disadvantage and aims to instil in students the ability to think critically and creatively.
The experience of working for Nicholas Chamberlaine School, and The Griffin Schools Trust, is unique. You will receive challenge and support to become expert in your field, develop the highest-level leadership skills and benefit from the wisdom of an extended family of supportive colleagues. There are excellent opportunities to work with peers and senior Trust staff on elements of our secondary strategy, to engage in leadership training as well as join a research-based Masters Programme.
We engage in a wide variety of Proud Traditions and experiences, including The Griffin Sports Festival, Arts Festival and Science Symposium, which give our community an exceptional breadth of experience.
. . . . . .Wellbeing. . . . . .
- We never use all of 1265
- We have reduced data drops to allow for more teaching and learning.
- We do not roll over the timetable in the summer term, instead we give staff time to work on core priorities and provide staff with essential CPD.
- We have disaggregated 2 teacher training days so that staff can take part in the Effective Formative Assessment programme twilight sessions.
- Curriculum planning is centralised within departments, allowing teachers to focus on adapting from base lessons, rather than having to create from scratch.
- We offer excellent professional development opportunities including NPQs and Trust funded Masters programmes, providing time in school to support.
- We encourage and support teachers to become exam markers.
- Departments are given at least 3 meeting per half term to share practice and subject knowledge.
- We minimise emails by having one Staff Comms per week and one MLT comms per week.
- All detentions are centralised to allow teachers more time to prep.
- We support staff to balance the needs of family life with part time and flexible contracts and paid/unpaid time off.
- All colleagues have free access to a modern gym on site.
- All colleagues can take advantage of the bike to work scheme.
- Weekly staff breakfasts on a Friday.
- Sharing good practice work with other departments.
Further information about the job
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 job requires you to download an application form, you will be able to upload the application once complete.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Nicholas Chamberlaine School
- Organisation type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- Size
- 1456 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- Email address
- recruitment@nicholaschamberlaine.co.uk
- Phone number
- 02476312308
Nicholas Chamberlaine School is a secondary school with VI Form provision in Bedworth, Warwickshire. We have been serving the community for over 60 years and are proud of the impact we are making on the lives of our young people.
In September 2013, we were delighted to join the Griffin Schools Trust and are now part of a family of schools with a distinctive identity. Our closest partner schools are Race Leys Junior School, Park Lane Primary School and Exhall Junior School, and we benefit from working together as a strong and supportive collegiate.
We have a strong vision. Nicholas Chamberlaine is committed to providing an excellent and inspiring educational experience for all our students. To support this, Nicholas Chamberlaine School:
- raises aspirations, expectations and achievement for all students
- ensures students acquire the knowledge, skills and qualifications relevant to adult life and employment
- shows students how to think for themselves, to develop enquiring minds and become disciplined learners
- helps students to understand the world in which they live and their own responsibilities as members of our community and society
- broadens our students’ horizons through a range of academic, creative, sporting and musical activities within and beyond the classroom.
Arranging a visit to Nicholas Chamberlaine School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@nicholaschamberlaine.co.uk.
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