Teacher of Design & Technology and Art
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Job start date
1 September 2024
Closing date
16 June 2024 at 3pm
Date listed
3 June 2024
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Skilled Worker visas can be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Subjects
- Art and design, Design and technology
Working pattern
- Full time: 32.5 hours per week
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Main Pay Scale/ Upper Pay Scale
What skills and experience we're looking for
The role:
Heritage High School are currently seeking to appoint a Teacher of DT and Art to join a department of supportive like-minded teachers who share the same vision to inspire our students to be the best they can be. This role is perfect for an individual who is committed to students’ learning and ensuring they each achieve their full potential by consistently delivering engaging lessons. Heritage High School’s DT and Art Department offers students a broad-based art craft and design curriculum in well-equipped specialist rooms. The successful candidate will join a team of creative, hardworking professionals, committed to working closely with colleagues to provide an outstanding art education for all students.
The person:
We are looking to appoint a colleague who is an excellent teacher and has the subject knowledge, skills, drive and commitment to build on current strong foundations. The ideal candidate will have a real passion for teaching DT with the ability to teach Art, strong subject knowledge, and be someone who is ready to get involved in our ongoing development of a broad and engaging curriculum offer for our students. The ideal candidate will have experience teaching DT and Art to KS3 and KS4.
Please note: Applicants must be able to attend the school in person if selected for interview.
What the school offers its staff
The School:
Heritage High School is an 11-16 Secondary School in Clowne, Northeast Derbyshire. Our aim at Heritage High School is to deliver a great Education to our students. We expect our students to work hard and every day towards these and be kind to each other, themselves and their community.
Why join us?
There are many reasons to choose The Two Counties Trust as a great place to start or continue your career.
We recognise the importance of a happy, healthy, rewarded and well motivated workforce and as such we have developed our HR strategy to invest in our employees. We have removed appraisal and appraisal related pay progression, changing the focus from validation to professional growth and enabling all our employees to get better all the time.
We are fully committed to supporting your career and professional growth through a range of routes both within schools and across the Trust and we offer extensive professional learning opportunities for all employees.
We offer:
- Highly competitive pay and pay progression opportunities.
- An array of employee benefits and lifestyle options including discounted healthcare, gym membership and extensive high street retail discounts.
- Entry to a career average pension scheme.
- Opportunities to experience and share practice in our partner schools across the Trust.
- A stimulating, supportive and rewarding working environment with a dedicated team of like-minded professionals.
- Excellent opportunities to develop your skills and experience and to progress your career.
- We take the wellbeing and health of employees seriously. We have a range of support mechanisms and benefits available to employees and the Trust has signed up to the Education Staff Wellbeing Charter.
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.
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About Heritage High School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 993 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- dawn.crouch@ttct.co.uk
Information about Heritage High School
Heritage High School is a thriving 11-16 comprehensive school in the heart of our community. Staff at the school are committed to enabling students to push themselves towards their aspirations, and in return students are developing into increasingly mature learners and young adults. We are supported by a strong, effective and aspirational Governing Body.
The key to successful education is to ensure that teaching is consistently high quality across all curriculum areas and that learning is focused and purposeful. To make this happen we are working hard to develop effective, enquiring learners who have real aspiration and take ownership of their own learning.
We provide a core of traditional subjects from Y7 to Y11, and provide high quality guidance to all students on the next steps at post-16. Our facilities are of a high quality, boasting well equipped specialist areas housed in recently constructed buildings. Regular after school learning activities are offered together with wider enrichment opportunities, including residential visits abroad.
We are committed to providing the very best for the young people in our care.
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