Teacher of Design Technology
Birches Head Academy, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, ST2 8DD6 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
20 May 2025 at 9am
Date listed
14 May 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 (Can be done as a job share): Term time, Full time teaching
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- M1 £31650 - UPS3 £49084
What skills and experience we're looking for
Maintain notes and plans of lessons undertaken and records of students’ work.
• Mark, monitor and return work in line with school policy and provide constructive oral and/or written feedback
and clear targets for future learning as appropriate.
• Carry out assessment programmes (e.g. reports) as agreed by the school policy.
• Attend the appropriate parents’ evenings to keep parents informed as to the progress of their child.
• Be familiar with the Code of Practice for identification and assessment of Special Educational Needs and keep
appropriate records on Individual Education Plans for students. To teach your subject discipline, inspiring students to have a passion for the subject and anunderstanding of its key ideas, concepts and skills. To be explicit in modelling and developing models for learning and mental schema so that students can make connections and apply
their learning in a variety of contexts. To continuously improve classroom practice and achieve
excellent student outcomes.
Teaching and Learning:
- Under the reasonable direction of the Principal, carry out the professional duties of a school teacher
as set out in the current School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Document (STPCD).
- Plan work in accordance with subject schemes of work and National Curriculum programmes of study.
- Liaise with relevant colleagues on the planning of units of work for collaborative delivery.
- Work in collaboration with Inclusion Support Assistants attached to any teaching group.
- Take account of students’ prior levels of attainment and use them to set targets for future improvements
and plan curriculum provision.
- Maintain good classroom management by adherence to the advice given to staff in the staff handbook and
elsewhere.
- Set high expectations for students’ behaviour by establishing a purposeful working atmosphere in
accordance with the school’s behaviour policy.
- Set appropriate and demanding expectations for students’ learning, motivation and presentation of work.
What the school offers its staff
Birches Head Academy is part of the Frank Field Education Trust and we work collaboratively with others in our FFET family, allowing our students and staff many opportunities to develop. This is embodied in the FFET vision: ‘Social Justice through Excellence in Education’ and in the Academy motto: ‘Aspire to be More’.
Birches Head Academy is looking to appoint a suitably qualified and highly committed Teacher of Design Technology to join this successful and well-resourced department and play a vital role in helping us to ensure our students receive a world-class education, thereby enabling each child to reach their full potential.
The successful candidate should be an outstanding practitioner, experienced in teaching both Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4. You should have a proven track record of successful outcomes and delivering on your plans. An innovative teacher, you should teach with enthusiasm and vision, and be passionate about your subject, and teaching and learning research and practice.
Applications from both experienced teachers and ECTs (NQTs) are warmly invited.
For further information, including the recruitment pack and application form, please visit our website at: www.bircheshead.org.uk. Alternatively, you can contact the school for an information pack.
Completed application forms should be emailed jbracegirdle@bircheshead.org.uk
Birches Head Academy requires an application form to be completed in order to be considered for this role. CVs alone will not be accepted.
Further details about the role
Birches Head Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. Applicants will, therefore, be subject to stringent vetting and induction processes, including an enhanced DBS disclosure. References will be requested prior to interview.
All applicants will be considered on the basis of suitability for the post regardless of age, sex, race or disability.
Social Justice through Excellence in Education
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
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Birches Head Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1045 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Birches Head Academy website
- Email address
- jbracegirdle@bircheshead.org.uk
- Phone number
- 01782233595
This is an exciting time at the Academy, as we
have made dramatic improvements and seen
a complete culture change in recent years,
resulting in growing numbers of children
applying for places.
We are part of the Frank Field Education
Trust, providing a firm foundation to enable us
to flourish. As an Academy within the Frank
Field Education Trust, schools will particularly
benefit from the Trust’s access to services that
will improve the support we can offer to all
students and families and also from the
opportunity to work with like-minded people,
who want the best for children and young
people.
The Academy works in partnership with
a number of schools both locally and
nationally, including our primary feeder
schools and colleges to ensure all students
have the very best opportunities and
outcomes.
Our vision is to provide:
• An exceptional academic education to all
children (Intellectual Capital)
• A values led approach to education for
every child (Cultural Capital)
• The right environment for every
child to flourish by building learning
communities in partnership with parents
and carers (Social Capital)
Achieving these commitments will ensure that,
when pupils leave the Academy, they are
ready for the next step in their journey; leaving
with the necessary skills and knowledge, and
the desire to serve others, to become the next
generation of leaders.
Our determination to do this, in its fullest
sense, resonates with our Academy motto
inspired by the words of Oscar Romero
“Aspire to be More”. I have very high
aspirations for the young people at Birches
Head Academy. I want the very best for them.
I want them to ‘Aspire to be More’.
If you feel you can make a contribution
to this important enterprise and help our
children to be the best that they can be, then I
look forward to receiving your application.
If you would like to discuss this vacancy
or visit the school please contact Mrs J
Bracegirdle, Principal’s PA, by email at:
jbracegirdle@bircheshead.org.uk.
Mr Paul Masher
Principal
Arranging a visit to Birches Head Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email jbracegirdle@bircheshead.org.uk.
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