Teacher of DT
Madeley High School, Crewe, Cheshire, CW3 9JJThis job expired on 19 May 2025 – see similar jobs
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
19 May 2025 at 9am
Date listed
8 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: full time, all year
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- M1- UPS3, £31,360 – £49,084 - Pay Award Pending
Pay scale
- M1- UPS3, £31,360 – £49,084 - Pay Award Pending
What skills and experience we're looking for
Are you ready to take the next step in your teaching career at one of the region’s most ambitious and forward-thinking schools? Madeley School is seeking a talented and driven Teacher of Design & Technology to join a department on an exciting path of growth and innovation.
This is a fantastic opportunity to make a meaningful impact in a subject area with huge potential. You’ll be working with modern, well-equipped facilities and a highly engaged student body eager to develop practical, creative, and technical skills. We welcome applicants with expertise in Timbers, Metals, or Polymers, who are passionate about delivering high-quality, future-focused learning experiences.
The successful candidate will have a strong understanding of all three areas at Key Stage 3 and full competency in workshop management, ensuring students receive the very best practical learning experiences.
This role is ideal for an experienced teacher looking for an opportunity to be part of an exciting transformation or an early Career Teacher (ECT) eager to join a school with unrivalled support and mentorship. At Madeley, we are proud of our culture of high achievement, collaboration, and continuous improvement. You will be part of a vibrant professional community that values initiative, encourages innovation, and supports your development.
Our recent Ofsted inspection (Feb 2025) was nothing short of phenomenal, with inspectors blown away by the exceptional standards of teaching, leadership, and student achievement.
Why Madeley?
- One of the top-performing schools in Staffordshire - our GCSE results are exceptional, with Maths ranked number 1 in the county and overall Progress 8 scores significantly above the national average.
- Oversubscribed and thriving - Madeley is the number one school of choice in the region, receiving 299 applications for September 2025, with 190 as first-choice preferences.
- An electrifying culture of excellence - students cannot speak highly enough about their school; they are inspired, ambitious, and driven to succeed.
- An expertly crafted and engaging curriculum - our curriculum is described as "ambitious, immersive, and designed to excite and engage pupils", ensuring hands-on, real-world experiences.
- Innovative and forward-thinking leadership - our self-evaluation was described as "pinpoint accurate", our approach to teaching "exemplary", and our relentless drive for success embedded in every decision we make.
- A school that feels like home - students feel safe, valued, and driven to exceed their own expectations, supported by a team that goes above and beyond every single day.
Madeley is a school of excellence. With inspection pressures behind us, our focus is firmly on continuing to deliver an exceptional education, driven by an unstoppable culture of ambition and success.
This is your chance to be part of something truly special. If you’re ready to inspire the next generation, work in an outstanding school environment, and be part of a high-performing, innovative team, then we want to hear from you!
Take this opportunity to be part of an inspiring journey - where your expertise, passion, and innovation will make a lasting impact!
Candidates who are interested in the post are more than welcome to contact the school for an informal discussion or arrange a visit to the school.
What the school offers its staff
Shaw Education Trust are a thriving mix of diverse and growing schools including Primary, Secondary and Special Schools all working together to improve the lives of young people in our communities. We are sponsored by Shaw Trust a charity organisation that focuses on transforming lives. We’re a growing group of dynamically awesome academies providing education to children of all ages and abilities. Staff across our team of schools are dedicated to ensuring that every child has the opportunity to be successful, whatever their starting point in life.
In our secondary schools, we pride ourselves on our innovative approach to curriculum design, to ensure all our schools have breadth and ambition for all students, regardless of their starting points and barriers. Standard curriculum models don’t always engage all students, so we constantly seek to innovate and provide better opportunities to develop both knowledge and skills for life. We want our students to believe their curriculum is bold, exciting, purposeful, and ultimately leads to something meaningful for them. Some examples of our innovation include moving towards an extended school day, to provide a world class enrichment programme and more opportunities for essential skills like reading and cultural capital. We are also introducing vocational and technical pathways, which run through the normal school curriculum but attract support from leading employers and universities to develops work-readiness in our students, so that they can progress onto T Levels and apprenticeships.
Shaw Education Trust offer the following employee benefits with your Teaching or Support Staff employment:
- An excellent Local Government Pension Scheme (Support Staff) / Teachers Pension (Teaching Staff)
- Support Staff only based on workingfull time, all year- Generous holiday entitlement from your first day of employment (37 days holidayrising to 39 daysafter 5 years’ service including Bank Holidays)
- Electric Car Scheme: Environmentally friendly vehicles with our electric car scheme.
- Access to Medicash Health & Wellbeing Plan: Enjoy health services designed to support your well-being.
- Free DiscountForTeachers Scheme for all staff (Support and Teaching), Exclusive discounts to save money with a wide selection of discounts and exclusive offers from hundreds of the biggest brands.
- Free Eye Tests
- Cycle to work scheme
- Access to our Institute of Education and fantastic opportunities to help yougrow, contributeandflourishin your role and in the Trust.
We know our people are the key to our success and so we’re committed to ensuring the employment experience at Shaw Education Trust is a rewarding one.
Colleagues within the Trust benefit from: Access to a full range of courses both in-house and professionally accredited. These courses include all of the National Professional Qualifications – NPQH, NPQSL, NPQEYL, NPQLL, NPQLT, NPQLTD, NPQLBC are all delivered by the Shaw Education Trust as a delivery partner for Ambition Institute. In addition, we provide access to the NPQEL for Executive Leaders.
- Experienced leadership and subject-specific support.
- Guidance from former HMIs and serving Ofsted Inspectors within the Trust.
- Access to the Trust’s Institute of Education and SCITT.
- Opportunities to work with different schools within the Trust as a Professional Advocate.
- Participating in peer reviews.
- Access to a suite of online courses.
- Placement projects within our family of schools.
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.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Madeley High School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 731 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Madeley High School website
- Email address
- natalie.turner@shaw-education.org.uk
Madeley School has an excellent reputation locally and is oversubscribed. Our OFSTED report in December 2019 praised pupils’ exceptional attitudes to learning in a school where they achieve strong outcomes.
Arranging a visit to Madeley High School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email natalie.turner@shaw-education.org.uk.
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