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  • Job start date

    1 September 2025

  • Closing date

    9 May 2025 at 11:59pm

  • Date listed

    29 April 2025

Job details

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Key stage

Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5

Subjects

Design and technology, Food technology

Working pattern

Full time: 32.5 hours per week Monday to Friday

Contract type

Fixed term - 1 Year - Maternity or parental leave cover

Full-time equivalent salary

Between £20,000 and £40,000

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are looking to appoint an exceptional professional who is both ambitious and committed to teaching Technology. You will join a highly successful and talented team who strive to bring out the best in our students and promote success within the team. The role will involve teaching Food, DT and RM and would be suitable for an ECT or a teacher who is looking to develop their experience. Food and RM are extremely popular choices at Debden, & students are highly successful at both GCSE; we would like to expand our offer at KS5 moving forwards.

What the school offers its staff

Debden Park High School is a heavily oversubscribed Academy that Ofsted judged to be Outstanding in January 2017. We constantly achieve outstanding outcomes for our students. The Technology Team delivers an exceptional curriculum experience for students through inventive, well planned & resourced schemes that are constantly reflected upon. We are a team & a school that values collaboration between professionals, & through our weekly staff training sessions work creatively together using the most recent evidence-led pedagogy to reflect on & plan an outstanding experience for our students.

The successful candidate will be someone who is visionary, innovative and committed to moving learning forward in an exciting and active way; someone who is prepared to go ‘beyond outstanding’.

We are part of a family of schools within the Kemnal Academies Trust. Every week staff take part in 2 hours of Debden Minds which is a bespoke CPD programme focusing primarily on the development of teaching & learning. We provide exceptional career progression for staff, which leads to our Middle and Senior Leadership teams being composed of many teachers who began their career with us. We lead the Essex hub of the TKAT SCITT.

TKAT is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers

to share this commitment. Offers of employment will be subject to the full Safer Recruitment process, including an enhanced disclosure and barring service check.

TKAT is committed to equality of opportunity. We welcome applications from all suitable candidates, regardless of any protected characteristic for example race, gender, sexual orientation, disability or age. All applications are treated on merit. This includes applications from individuals wishing to work full time, part-time or on a flexible basis.


Commitment to safeguarding

TKAT is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Offers of employment will be subject to the full Safer Recruitment process, including an enhanced disclosure and barring service check.

Applying for the job

Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to donna.james@debden-tkat.org

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About Debden Park High School

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 18
Education phase
Secondary
School size
1065 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 18
Ofsted report
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Phone number
0208 418 1202

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Arranging a visit to Debden Park High School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email donna.james@debden-tkat.org.

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