Teacher of Design and Technology
Hedingham School and Sixth Form, Halstead, Essex, CO9 3QHThis job expired on 12 May 2025
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
12 May 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
28 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
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- TMS/UPS
What skills and experience we're looking for
- Have Secondary PGCE or QTS qualification for secondary phase.
- Have a passion for learning and teaching within Design Technology.
- Have a good degree and the ability to teach to GCSE level.
- Be an excellent teacher of Design Technology.
- Understand the needs of students and how to remove learning barriers.
- Have a proven track record of student achievement.
What the school offers its staff
- A successful and oversubscribed 11 to 18 mixed comprehensive community school in a beautiful rural setting close to Hedingham Castle.
- Supportive parents.
- High achievement from our students.
- Enthusiastic and committed staff.
- A well-resourced suite of rooms, equipped with data projectors, and 80 PCs with excellent CAD/CAM facilities.
- A laptop computer.
- A supportive and collaborative environment which prioritises staff wellbeing.
- Free access to fitness gym.
- New 6th Form/Staff Café (opening Sept 2025)
- Free parking
Further details about the role
We are seeking to recruit an enthusiastic Design and Technology specialist to work within a thriving and highly successful D&T learning area.
The successful candidate will be responsible for teaching primarily KS3 and KS4 students. We are looking for a teacher who is both knowledgeable and passionate about their subject. This person will become fully involved in the ethos of the department and contribute to the continued development and raising achievement of our pupils.
We have very strong core principles which provide students with a sequential and progressive curriculum. This enables them to build key skills.
As students work through each year and Key Stage we encourage them to be creative and ambitious. The successful candidate will share this philosophy.
An interest in extra-curricular activities is essential. Knowledge of ICT and CAD applications would be advantageous.
The Governors wish to appoint a teacher who is able to demonstrate the following:
Professional Qualities
- Good graduate
- Have the ability to teach up to GCSE
- Commitment to maintaining and raising standards
- To help develop resources within schemes of work
- Awareness of the implications of target-setting within assessment
- Good grounding in their subject knowledge
- Ambition for career development
Interpersonal Skills
- Ability to inspire students
- Ability to be innovative
- Team player
- Ability to recognise and cater for individual learning styles
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.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Hedingham School and Sixth Form
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1138 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Hedingham School and Sixth Form website
- Email address
- hed.suttont@hedingham.essex.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01787460470
Hedingham School and Sixth Form is an over-subscribed, independent Academy situated in an attractive village in North Essex (within easy reach of Braintree, Chelmsford, Colchester and South Suffolk). Our students are polite and engaged and love to learn and our parental body is highly supportive. As one student recently put it when speaking to an Ofsted inspector, “The school values shape us into adults.”
We are a school that values its history, maintaining traditional events and initiatives that are deep rooted in the local community whilst embracing new technologies, such as our offer of T-level Digital Business Services in our new state of the art T-level building, alongside our rural vocational centre supporting students towards pathways into local.
Hedingham School provides a high-quality educational experience for all students and strives to ensure that each individual’s academic and personal development is fulfilled.
We offer a vibrant learning environment where students are encouraged to ‘think’ and explore strategies to grasp and apply knowledge.
The curriculum offered is purposeful and stimulating, allowing students to build a range of skills as they progress through school.
We want our students to be resilient and take on the challenges of the 21st century. We encourage them to approach school with confidence and participate fully in all aspects of school life.
At Hedingham School, our students support and care for each other and display high levels of respect for all members of the community. Hedingham School has a strong ‘culture’ which actively promotes equality of opportunity, allowing all students to pursue their ambitions.
We believe in building strong partnerships with parents, based on trust and confidence.
Arranging a visit to Hedingham School and Sixth Form
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email hed.suttont@hedingham.essex.sch.uk.
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