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Teacher of Design & Technology

Eden Park High School, Beckenham, Kent, BR3 3RD

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• Start date details

  January 2024

• Closing date

  24 November 2023 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  10 November 2023

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: No, visa sponsorship not available
• Subject: Design Technology
• Working pattern:
  • Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £34,514.00 - £51,179.00 Annually (Actual) £1000 annul allowance and an opportunity for leadership responsibilities for the right candidate

Teacher of Design & Technology job summary

Education for the 21st Century is a values-led organisation, driven by a determination to create welcoming and open schools for the local community, where every person thrives, makes excellent progress, and succeeds. We are committed to improving outcomes and transforming lives, realising social mobility, and the transformative power of education. We value the difference in all our schools while seeking to bring them together around a framework that delivers an enriching experience and a great education for the young people within our care. 

We want the very best for all our young people. Our plan to ensure that we deliver great schools is underpinned by our shared values of trust, kindness, and endeavour. Our schools and our staff are collaborative, and we seek to create consistency and quality throughout.  

Our leaders create improvement in schools that is robust and sustainable. We are as enthusiastic about developing and nurturing our staff, as we are about developing our young people. Our professional development programs and our approach to school improvement provide quality and rigor while creating a depth of experience and learning for our staff. 

In joining Eden Park High School and the family of schools within E21C you will gain access to an unparalleled level of support and development in a forward-thinking school and trust.  

We are seeking to appoint a teacher of Design and Technology to work within a developing faculty with a wealth of experience. Our workshops have state of the art equipment, laser cutter, 3D printers along with a dedicated screen-printing room with carousel, photography dark room and ceramics room with kiln.

This is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious teacher to be part of developing our 3D Design and workshop provision from KS3 to KS5. Our current curriculum is Art & Design based but we now want to appoint a Design & Technology trained teacher to enhance our growing faculty and cater for the interests of our students. We aim to develop more workshop-based projects, including 3D Design GCSE and eventually be able to offer 3D Design at A level.

The successful candidate would be able to deliver KS3 timber, metal and plastic based projects, in a workshop, providing the full range of Design and Technology skills to all students. with a view to being able to develop and deliver Ks4 and 5 courses in the future.

The ideal candidate will maintain rigorous high expectations for staff and students alike. They will also be similarly passionate about their own learning and engagement with continuous professional development, recognising that meaningful learning is much more than what happens in the classroom alone and the importance of enriching the curriculum through meaningful contributions towards our broad extra-curricular provision.

You will have the opportunity to work with a talented team of like-minded leaders, teachers and a strong central team, all working together to build sustainable excellence in our schools.

The successful candidate will:

•                     Join a forward-looking, high achieving school

•                     A school that offers a genuine opportunity for meaningful career development.

•                     A positive and supportive department of enthusiastic and motivated teachers, including TLR holders.

•                     Contribute to wider improvement of the school and trust

•                     Excellent career opportunities within the trust

•                     Be driven and committed to your students

•                     An excellent practitioner who is willing to challenge and be challenged

Commitment to safeguarding

Education for the 21st Century is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all applicants. Education for the 21st Century is fully committed to equality and to valuing diversity as an employer and a provider of education.

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About Eden Park High School

• School type: Free School, ages 11 to 19
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1190 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Eden Park High School website (opens in new tab)
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/eden-park-high-school (opens in new tab)

Education for the 21st Century is a values-led organisation, driven by a determination to create welcoming and open schools for the local community, where every person thrives, makes excellent progress, and succeeds. We are committed to improving outcomes and transforming lives, realising social mobility, and the transformative power of education. We value the difference in all of our schools while seeking to bring them together around a framework that delivers an enriching experience and a great education for the young people within our care.

We want the very best for all of our young people. Our plan to ensure that we deliver great schools is underpinned by our shared values of trust, kindness, and endeavour. Our schools and our staff are collaborative, and we seek to create consistency and quality throughout.

Our leaders create improvement in schools that is robust and sustainable. We are as enthusiastic about developing and nurturing our staff, as we are about developing our young people. Our professional development programs and our approach to school improvement provide quality and rigor while creating a depth of experience and learning for our staff.

In joining Eden Park High School and the family of schools within E21C you will gain access to an unparalleled level of support and development in a forward-thinking school and trust.

Eden Park High School is a new school in Beckenham. We opened in 2017, moved into our purpose-built new premises in 2019, celebrated our first ever GCSE results in 2022 and have opened our new Sixth Form this September. With a new and expanded leadership team, this young school is starting an exciting new chapter as we build the culture, systems and teams that will see us expand further over the next two years and deliver an outstanding quality of education for the community.

We are currently recruiting exceptional teachers and support staff who want to be part of our journey of transformation. We want people who will share in our ethos and values and set a new standard of excellence and inspire young minds.

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