5 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    September 2024/January 2025

  • Closing date

    11 July 2024 at 8am

  • Date listed

    5 July 2024

Job details

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Key stage

Key stage 3, Key stage 4

Subjects

Art and design, Design and technology

Working pattern

Full time: 1 FTE

Contract type

Permanent

Pay scale

MPS/UPS

Additional allowances

R&R £1,500*
*To be reviewed after 12 months

What skills and experience we're looking for

Qualifications

  • Qualified Teacher Status
  • A degree in related subject
  • Permitted to work in the UK

Experience

  • Successfully teaching across the secondary age and ability using a variety and range of teaching and learning styles. (Desirable)

  • Successfully teaching DT in one or more UK state secondary schools at both Key Stages 3 and 4 as a qualified teacher (Desirable)

  • Using data to inform teaching.

  • Understanding what outstanding teaching looks like.

Skills, Ability, Knowledge

  • Excellent classroom practitioner with a real passion for the subject and an ability to communicate that passion.

  • Strong interpersonal, written and oral communication skills

  • Good organisational skills

  • Ability to plan, organise and adapt.

  • Excellent IT skills

  • Genuine passion and belief in the potential of every student

  • The ability to demonstrate unconditional positive regard towards young people

  • Commitment to the responsibility for and practices concerned with the safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people.

Personal Qualities

  • Enjoy working with children
  • The ability to build good relationships with children and adults
  • Patience and a sense of humour
  • Flexibility and creativity
  • Resilient
  • All of our colleagues are expected to demonstrate a commitment to co-operative values and principles, British Values and the Ways of Being Co-op.

What the school offers its staff

As part of the Co-op Academy Trust, you will also benefit from excellent CPD as well as a Trust wide network of colleagues to share best practice with.

Other benefits include:

  • Teachers Pension Scheme

  • Discounts on various Co-op branded products

  • Co-operative credit union

  • Discounted gym membership and leisure activities

  • Season ticket and rental deposit loans

  • Colleague Assistance via Health Assured

  • Cycle to Work scheme

  • Flu vaccine

The role attracts an R&R allowance of £1,500, to be reviewed after 12 months

Further details about the role

Join our talented and dedicated team as a Teacher of Design & Technology and Art - With a passion for teaching, combined with a creative flare could you inspire our students and help them achieve the best possible outcome.

We welcome applications from candidates looking to teach across both Design & Technology and Art. CPD, along with support and guidance from our skilled and experienced team will be provided where subjects fall outside of your specialism.

Our aim is to ensure that our students are given every opportunity to reach their full potential, regardless of their background. With this in mind, we are looking to appoint a teacher who shares our vision for a learning environment and curriculum that is ambitious as well as supportive and nurturing.

As well as academic success, we focus on and take great pride in our students' behaviour. We aim for high achievement in an environment which is based on rewards, not sanctions. Working closely with our teaching body, our caring and experienced pastoral team are always on hand to help and support our students through their secondary school journey.

Being part of the Co-operative Group, we are both guided and driven by the Co-op values which are centred around a different, fairer and better way of doing things. These values are embedded in everything that we do within the Academy - they are our ‘Ways of being’;

Do what matters most | Be yourself, always | Show you care | Succeed together

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

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

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About Co-op Academy Swinton

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 16
Education phase
View all Secondaryjobs
School size
1007 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 16
Phone number
01617946215

Arranging a visit to Co-op Academy Swinton

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email danielle.walsh@coopacademies.co.uk.

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