Teacher of Textiles
Boston Spa Academy, Wetherby, West Yorkshire, LS23 6RWThis job expired on 13 May 2025
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
13 May 2025 at 3:56pm
Date listed
7 May 2025
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Skilled Worker visas can be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Subject
- Design and technology
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- MPR/UPR
What skills and experience we're looking for
Boston Spa Academy are seeking to recruit an inspirational colleague to the role of Teacher of Textiles. This role is of great importance to our work as an Academy. The successful candidate will be responsible for teaching and inspiring students across Key Stage 3 and 4 to achieve their full potential. This opportunity is open to both ECTs and Experienced Teachers.
The ideal applicant will have:
Either:
- A successful placement(s), teaching at KS3 & KS4 (applicants currently in training)
or:
- A successful record of teaching with very good exam results at one or more of KS3 & KS4 (applicants who already have gained QTS.
- A detailed knowledge of current developments in education including the use of the Pupil Premium.
- The ability to put vision into practice.
What the school offers its staff
As a trust, we want to ensure that professionals at every stage in their career have the opportunity to enjoy expert support and training. We are pleased to offer a generous benefits package to our team – as we work together to create a rewarding future for all including:
- Membership to a local government pension scheme.
- Access to an Employee Assistance Programme which provides confidential professional advice and support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
- A commitment to continued investment in our professionals, supporting every member of staff throughout their career in the trust.
- Discounts and online offers at major high street/online retailers.
- £2k Cycle to work scheme.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to full employment checks, including an enhanced DBS disclosure and barring service check. We promote diversity and aim to establish a workforce that reflects the population of Leeds.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Boston Spa Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 1498 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Boston Spa Academy website
- Email address
- susie.dubber@bostonspa.leeds.sch.uk
Boston Spa Academy in Boston Spa, Wetherby, West Yorkshire, is a mixed, secondary school for children aged 11-18. The school, which opened in 1973, has around 1,430 students of which 190 attend the growing sixth form. In September 2018, Boston Spa Academy officially joined the highly successful and nationally renowned GORSE trust. As a direct impact of working with colleagues at TGAT the academy has moved from being a school with average performance to one which is now well above the national average. Boston Spa Academy is now amongst the highest performing schools in Leeds, the Yorkshire and Humber region and the country.
At Boston Spa Academy, we are proud that, in our recent Ofsted inspection graded “Outstanding”, it was commented that ‘staff feel valued and are proud to be members of the school’. The report also recognises that ‘leaders are highly supportive’ and ‘proactively seek to manage workload and support the well-being of staff’. As well as feeling part of a community with a common purpose, our professional body also benefits from outstanding CPD and support which is personalised to your particular needs and experience.
Our Vision and Values: Shaping Character; Cultivating Ambition
At Boston Spa Academy, we truly value the holistic development of our students as part of our vision to be ‘shaping character; cultivating ambition’. We support students in developing the character traits required to be well-rounded individuals and for them to be prepared with the skills, habits and qualifications required for success in their future careers.
Our community is built on kindness, respect, hard work and aspiration and our enabler to achieving this are the ‘core values’ to which we hold dear and permeate through all that we do at the academy:
· Purpose
· Positivity
· Principled
· Participation
· Professionalism
As part of The GORSE Academies Trust, Boston Spa Academy is in the vanguard of educational developments in Leeds, Yorkshire and on a national level. As a school community, we strive to deliver an exceptional standard of education.
Our Enrichment++ provision is designed to encourage young people to learn beyond the classroom and includes opportunities to take part in sport, art, languages, humanities, science, outdoor pursuits and a range of volunteering and charitable work at local, national and international levels. Our nationally renowned Rowing Programme provides student with the opportunity to compete at a national level against some of the elite young athletes in the UK.
Cultural visits and an expedition programme have seen pupils visit countries from European countries to as far afield as Trinidad and Singapore.
Mr Peter Hollywood
Principal
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