Teacher of Design Technology
Wykham Park, Banbury, Oxfordshire, OX16 9HYThis job expired on 25 February 2024 – see similar jobs
Start date details
April 2024
Closing date
25 February 2024 at 9am
Date listed
8 February 2024
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, part time: Full time 32.5 hours per week. Part time Part Time Applicants would also be considered
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- MPS/UPS
What skills and experience we're looking for
Part Time Applicants would also be considered
Based in Banbury, Oxfordshire,Wykham Park Academy is ComprehensiveSecondarySchool committed tosupportingoutstanding outcomes forourstudents. With students who have the desire to succeed, an aspirational team of staff, supportive colleagues, both within the academy and in the wider MAT,Wykham Park Academy offers an excellent opportunity for an ambitious, talented individual looking to develop their career with the potential for futureprogression within Aspirations.
At Wykham Park Academy, you would become part of a vibrant learning community that will offer you fantastic opportunities for CPD, and opportunities for progression. In fact, appraisal at Aspirations focusses on each individual's Personal Professional Vision.
An exciting opportunity has become available for a passionate Teacher of Design Technology to join us at Wykham Park Academy. You would be joining a team who enjoy developing a real love for Design Technology in students.
We seek to appoint a highly motivated, enthusiastic Teacher of Design Technology to start as soon as possible. The successful candidate will be one with a strong commitment to securing the best possible outcomes for the students for whom we work.
We simply love Design Technology at Wykham Park Academy, would you like to join our team of established specialist staff?
Design Technology is thriving at Wykham Park Academy, we teach a rigorous, knowledge-based broad and balanced curriculum. With a clear focus on both the self-worth of students and excellent outcomes, you will work further drive up attainment, progress and standards at Key Stage 3 and GCSE (Level 2), as well as developing our students’ love of learning and enhancement of their ‘cultural capital’.
The Academy is recruiting for someone who shares our drive to engage and motivate every child to achieve their potential, who will play an important role in our unique and growing Academy. The successful candidate will be an excellent teacher of Design Technology, who will also play an important pastoral role in leading and Academic Mentoring (Tutor) group.
What the school offers its staff
What we offer:
- CPD that starts as soon as you are appointed, with a clear induction programme and, from September 2023, a 1 hour a week coaching session on your timetable
- Higher than the 10% PPA allowance
- A professional progression model to enable you to make further progress in your career
- A vibrant and experienced humanities team
- Support and line management from a highly experienced Head of College
- Great students - you can make a massive difference to them
- Clear behaviour systems
- A feedback policy focused on closing the gap– we do not have onerous/impossible marking policies
- No formal graded lesson observations – just ongoing ‘no-stakes’ feedback, helping you to continuously develop
- Collaborative planning with centralised, shared units of work and resources
- A beautiful campus situated on the very edge of the Cotswolds, only half an hour from Oxford and an hour from London by train
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 Wykham Park
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 912 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Wykham Park website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- jobs@aspirationsacademies.org
Arranging a visit to Wykham Park
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