Teacher of Design Technology (with possibility of some Art teaching)
St Mark's Church of England Academy, Mitcham, Surrey, CR4 1SF8 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
2 March 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
11 February 2025
Job details
Job role
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Subject
- Design Technology
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £38,765.00 - £60,091.00 Annually (FTE) Teachers Inner London Main/Upper Pay Range
Teacher of Design Technology (with possibility of some Art teaching) job summary
This could not be a more exciting time to lead within the St Mark's family. Following our full graded Ofsted inspection in May 2024, St Mark’s CoE Academy achieved an Outstanding judgment in all areas of the framework. Outcomes at the Academy at Key Stage 4 are in the top 8% of all schools nationally with a Progress 8 Score of +0.71. In 2024 an impressive 68% of all A Levels were awarded A*-B grades, 92% A*-C grades and 30% of students securing a place at a Russell Group University.
Do you have the highest expectations for every member of the school community and believe in transformational education for all, irrespective of starting points and background?
Are you able to win hearts and minds with your inspirational vision for school improvement, underpinned by the school’s inclusive Christian ethos and values, Love, Hope and Trust?
Are you passionate about high-quality teaching and learning and a life changing quality of education?
If you answer ‘yes’ to these questions, we would love to hear from you.
We are seeking to appoint a well-qualified and enthusiastic Teacher of Food Technology who can deliver an enriching curriculum, within the Art & Technology department. This post will have a curriculum split of approximately 80% Food Technology and 20% Art, so an understanding of both subject specialisms will be required, but will also be supported by additional CPD.
We are offering an exciting opportunity for an experienced or recently qualified teacher to join our successful Art and Technology Department. The suitable colleague will have the desire to develop and deliver an outstanding curriculum offer, which will support the schools’ keys priorities. Our DT department is fully equipped with a well resourced kitchen classroom, for an exceptional curriculum offer. We are looking for someone who believes in building strong relationships with our students and who is willing to go above and beyond to support them in being successful and helping them to realise their God-given potential. You would be expected to develop, plan and deliver highly effective learning experiences to all students across every key stage and lead a transformational extracurricular offer.
With our outstanding commitment to developing new teachers, we are delighted to invite applications from both ECT’s and experienced teachers.
Successful candidates will transform their practice through our instructional coaching offer. As one of 10 nationally selected Steplab Hub Schools, staff benefit from this expertly led programme underpinned by cutting edge research into cognitive science.
St Mark’s Church of England Academy is part of Anthem Schools Trust, a multi-academy trust serving over 8,000 children and young people in 16 schools across the East Midlands, London and the Thames Valley.
Full details of the responsibilities can be found in the Job Description and Person Specification for this post. Applications will be reviewed and shortlisted as received and therefore early application is strongly advised. Anthem Trust remains the right to close or extend this advert at any time.
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
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About St Mark's Church of England Academy
- School type
- Academy, Church of England, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 880 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
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St Mark’s Church of England Academy is a 11-18 Academy based in the South London borough of Merton. The Academy is rapidly improving as demonstrated by its rapid increase in GCSE headline figures. The Academy is a community founded on our key values of Trust, Hope and Love and these values permeate our school community.
The Academy is located on the outskirts of London and is well served by Mitcham Eastfields train station which runs regular services towards Central London and Sutton and Wimbledon.
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