Teacher of Design and Technology
Codsall Community High School, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, WV8 1PQ14 days remaining to apply
Job start date
5 January 2026
Closing date
13 October 2025 at 9am
Date listed
29 September 2025
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Subject
- Design and technology
Working pattern
- Full time: Monday to Friday
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £32,916 – £51,048
Pay scale
- M1 - UP3
What skills and experience we're looking for
Job Description
Post Title
Teacher of Design and Technology
Purpose
- To deliver a high quality of education.
- To secure high levels of progress and enjoyment.
Reporting to
Head of Technology
Liaising with
Teachers, non-teaching staff and parents.
School policies and planning
- To implement all relevant partnership and school policies.
- To contribute to the Team Improvement Plan for Science and its implementation.
- To contribute to the implementation of the School Development Plan.
Curriculum planning
- To produce high quality lesson plans with supporting resources for own classes.
- To share planning and resources with other colleagues.
Assessment
- To share model answers with students so they can assess their work and the work of their peers so they know how to improve.
- To provide students with feedback after milestone assessments so they know what they need to do to improve.
- To maintain appropriate paper based and electronic records on SIMS.
- To track student progress and use information to inform teaching and learning and the development of the curriculum.
Teaching and learning
- To consistently deliver high quality teaching and learning experiences that lead to high levels of progress, learner interest and enjoyment.
Communication
- To ensure effective communication with parents of students.
Marketing and liaison
- To contribute to marketing activities and help to promote the federation of schools.
Pastoral system
- To register students in a tutor group, encourage their full attendance and their full participation in all aspects of school life.
- To monitor attendance, achievement and behaviour and support its development for students in a tutor group.
- To deliver PSHEE during tutor time.
- To communicate with parents and people concerned with the welfare of students.
Safeguarding and equal opportunities
- To promote and safeguard the welfare of children and young persons you are responsible for or come into contact with.
- To be aware of and comply with policies and procedures relating to child protection, health, safety and security, confidentiality and data protection, reporting all concerns to an appropriate person.
- To be aware of, support and ensure equal opportunities for all.
- To contribute to the overall ethos, work and aims of the school
Additional duties
- To play a full part in the life of the school community, to support its vision, mission and ethos and to encourage staff and students to follow this example.
- To undertake any other duty as specified in the STRB not mentioned above.
- Every effort has been made to explain the main duties and responsibilities of the post, each individual task undertaken may not be identified.
This job description is current at the date shown below, but in consultation with you, may be changed by the Headteacher to reflect changes to job or school priorities, commensurate with the grade and job title.
Person Specification
Essential
Desirable, but not essential
Qualifications
Graduate in a relevant subject.
Qualified Teacher Status (QTS).
Good honours graduate.
Experience
Successful experience of teaching GCSE Design Technology.
Experience and knowledge of effective teaching and learning strategies.
Experience of securing high standards of attainment and learner achievement.
Experience of and an interest in teaching A Level Product Design.
Skills
An excellent classroom practitioner or the ability to develop into one.
Effective communication skills both written and oral.
Ability to motivate, lead and inspire, students.
Ability to use IT as a teaching, learning and management tool.
Clarity of thought, the ability to analyse problems and find solutions.
Evidence that the vast majority of learners make good or outstanding progress in classes taught.
Personal qualities
A vision and the ability to innovate.
Commitment to a fully inclusive school.
Ability to cope with the duties and responsibilities of the post.
High levels of personal ambition, motivation and commitment.
Ability to demonstrate sound and balanced judgement, decisiveness and flexibility.
Enthusiastic and positive outlook.
Sense of humour.
What the school offers its staff
Our Beliefs – Culture and Benefits
- Our goal is to strip away the unnecessary and focus on the important stuff – making our schools the best possible environments for our young people.
- There is no expectation or belief that getting to school early or staying late is the only way of showing you’re working hard. All staff should work in a way that suits them, making sure that they have time for themselves and their loved ones.
- No lesson observation gradings, no showcase lessons, no tick sheet approach – we focus on a culture of typicality and will always work at developing a positive and inclusive culture of support and challenge.
- No expectations to answer emails out of school working hours.
- Open door senior leadership across the organisation – no issue is ever too small to discuss if it’s important to you.
- A strong focus on mental health and wellbeing – staff with responsibility for ensuring that there are resources and signposting for any staff that need support.
- In house leadership development programmes as well as access to various NPQ courses.
- SSLP Star of the Term – each term headteachers and SLT will be asked to nominate staff for this award. The winning member of staff will be presented with a £50 voucher for a local restaurant / pub.
- Every member of staff in each school is entitled to 2 x wellbeing half days. These can be requested in advance and can be for any reason.
Our Beliefs - Workload
- No need or expectation to write or rewrite lesson plans in a particular format.
- An assessment and marking policy which significantly reduces workload by moving from “marking” culture to an effective assessment culture.
- A goal of ensuring that there is no more than one cover lesson per half term, less if possible.
- Data will never be asked for twice in different contexts.
- A maximum of 3 data collection points per year group.
- If a new policy or practice is introduced we will strive to take away something old, ensuring that we review everything we do annually.
- Consultation on key policies which include workload assessments.
Further information about the job
Codsall High is a comprehensive school for Years 9 to 13 situated in a semi-rural area of Staffordshire near Wolverhampton. It has over a thousand students on roll and almost three hundred in its highly successful sixth form.
Codsall High is a good school where pupils behave and achieve well (see OFSTED report).
GCSE Design Technology is a popular choice at the school with more than two hundred students taking it as a GCSE option and more than thirty students taking it for A Level.
The Technology Department is fully staffed with dedicated teachers. Staff work together, support each other and go the extra mile to support their students. It is a great department to work in.
We are looking for a dynamic and inspirational Design Technology to join our school in January 2026.
The ability to teach GCSE Design Technology is essential. The opportunity to teach A Level Product Design is available to a suitably qualified teacher. The post would suit a recently Qualified Teacher at the early stage of their career or an experienced Teacher who would like to join a successful school.
Excellent support will be provided within the Technology Department and from across the school to help you become continue your development as a teacher.
Commitment to safeguarding
"This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment". This position is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure check under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Further details regarding this check are available from schools or by visiting www.crb.gov.uk”
Applying for the job
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About Codsall Community High School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 13 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1068 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 13 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Codsall Community High School website
- Email address
- jobs@sslp.uk
Codsall Community High School is a vibrant, exciting and dynamic learning environment which embodies the value we place on working with our students to achieve the very best outcomes for each and every one.
We are very proud of our focus on staff and student wellbeing; driven in our aims and ambitions to build on our success in a supportive and friendly environment.
The health and wellbeing of our staff is a priority; with an open-door senior leadership policy, a comprehensive new staff / NQT support programme, celebration of staff who go the extra mile and in-house pathways programmes for aspiring future leaders.
We are a high achieving school, providing education to students from years 9 to 13, with our results placing us amongst the highest performing state schools in the country. Through our committed staff, dedicated Governors and supportive parents, we continue to flourish.
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