Teacher of Design & Technology
Prince Henry's High School, Evesham, Worcestershire, WR11 4QHThis job expired on 8 March 2024 – see similar jobs
Job start date
1 September 2024
Closing date
8 March 2024 at 9am
Date listed
22 February 2024
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: The school's normal working day is from 9am to 3.35pm, Monday to Friday
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- M1 to UPS3
What skills and experience we're looking for
- Will suit an early career or experienced teacher
- Ability to teach D&T Resistant Materials/Product Design to Key Stages 3, 4 and 5
- Ability to teach some Engineering would be advantageous
- Please note we are not looking to recruit a Textiles specialist at the current time
- Opportunity to become involved in wide range of extra-curricular activities including STEM, as well as wider extra-curricular opportunities
- Right to work in the UK. Please note, we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for international candidates.
What the school offers its staff
- Opportunity to become involved in a wide range of extra-curricular activities, including overseas trips; Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme; sport, music & performing arts
- Wide range of career development opportunities through the Prince Henry's Teaching School Hub
- Superb working environment in a state-of-the-art building completed in 2021 specifically for D&T, Food and Art, as part of a £9m capital investment in school buildings that has taken place since 2013
- Cycle to Work Scheme (salary sacrifice)
- Electric Vehicle Leasing Scheme (salary sacrifice)
Further details about the role
Due to the forthcoming retirement of a member of our Design & Technology Department, we are seeking to recruit an enthusiastic, creative and innovative teacher who is able to teach Design & Technology Resistant Materials/Product Design across all secondary key stages. The ability to teach some Engineering would be advantageous. Please note that we are not looking to recruit a Textiles specialist at the current time.
We believe that this post offers an excellent opportunity for job satisfaction and for personal and professional development and we welcome applications from suitably qualified Early Career Teachers or those with teaching experience. It provides an exciting opportunity to work within a successful, ambitious and forward-looking department with enthusiastic, dedicated, supportive & caring colleagues in a purpose-built state-of-the-art D&T, Food and Art building that was completed in 2021.
The successful candidate will be committed to the highest standards of academic achievement and behaviour and will genuinely enjoy working with teenagers of all abilities. They will have a clear understanding of how to achieve and maintain high standards and will already have a record as an excellent classroom teacher or, for applicants still in training, the potential to become outstanding.
Potential
applicants are welcome to telephone Pam Kelly, Head of Design & Technology to discuss
this post or to arrange to visit the school if they wish.
Closing date: 9.30am, Friday 8th March 2024
Interviews: During week commencing 11th March 2024
Commitment to safeguarding
Prince Henry's High School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all shortlisted candidates.
The school will also conduct an online search on all shortlisted candidates which may help identify any incidents or issues that have happened, and are publicly available online, which the school might want to explore with you at interview.
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About Prince Henry's High School
- School type
- Academy, ages 13 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1293 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 13 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Prince Henry's High School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- secretary@princehenrys.worcs.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01386765588
Prince Henry's is a popular and over-subscribed school in the picturesque Worcestershire market town of Evesham, with approximately 1,300 students, including a large Sixth Form of 330 students. It has been consistently judged outstanding by Ofsted, most recently in March 2024.
Among its many accreditations, the school holds the National SMSCD Gold Award, the Career Mark, the NACE Challenge Award, Music Mark, Artsmark Gold, School Games Platinum Award and is a Centre of Excellence for the Inclusion Quality Mark. It is also a Trauma Informed School.
Having been a Teaching School since 2014, in 2021 it became the Teaching School Hub for the WM1 area of Wychavon, Worcester, Wyre Forest, Malvern Hills and Herefordshire, with Teaching School Hub accreditation being re-accredited for a further four years in 2024.
Since 2013, the school has benefited from a capital investment programme of £10 million, which has seen the construction of a 14-classroom building to house English and Modern Foreign Languages, a new £3.5m classroom block for Art, DT and Food Technology, the complete modernisation and refurbishment of Science and our Sixth Form Centre, the installation of a 3G football pitch, as well as significant improvements to all other curriculum areas.
Arranging a visit to Prince Henry's High School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email secretary@princehenrys.worcs.sch.uk.
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