Teacher of Design and Technology

Are you looking for your next challenge? Do you relish the chance to work closely with great colleagues to make rapid sustained school improvement? If so, we have the perfect opportunity for you.

About Us

We are a diverse Multi Academy Trust of 10 schools; primary, secondary and special. We are proud of the clarity that is expressed in our principles of alignment and the value that we place on individual and school diversity. This Trust is determined that everyone has the power to lead and that we serve our local community in action as well as words. All of our leaders are committed to being supported and challenged to be better tomorrow than they are today and are genuinely excited about the next phase in our journey to remarkable.

We want our students to love learning and be well placed to do something great with their lives.  We create remarkable learning environments in which students expect success because of their ambitious attitude to learning, the challenge provided by staff and the support they receive at home.  High quality professional development and leadership training for staff are central features of our Trust. We leave no child behind and genuinely believe that all can succeed. 

Please see the candidate pack for more details about our Trust.

What we offer:

We aim to attract and retain misson-aligned people, enhance employee engagement and maximise performance. Our People First Charter makes clear what we striving to achieve as a people first organisation and our overarching people first strategic aim is to be One Trust where all belong. 

Beckfoot Trust schools work in partnership with a shared ambition to provide outstanding education for our students. We highly value the need for psychological safety and belonging and we regularly train all our staff on what that means. We value authenticity and honesty and celebrate what makes individuals and organisations unique.

We authentically value staff through specific praise, recognising what they do to make a difference to the lives of young people on a daily basis.

We demonstrate we are morally committed to achieving true diversity throughout our whole organisation as well as believing that commonality binds us together.

We find ways of reducing unnecessary workload for all and we promote wellbeing and a healthy and safe work environment in all our schools, providing access to wellness advice, lifestyle benefits and free expert and confidential counselling through our employee assistance programme.

Beckfoot Trust provides clarity of expectations, always precisely modelling what we want so that there is no ambiguity and gives dedicated time to collective efficacy.

What you offer:

Beckfoot Trust wishes to appoint a Teacher of Design & Technology

We are seeking an individual who has the motivation, enthusiasm and skill set to work with the Design & Technology Team.

We are looking for a candidate with the willingness to teach all KS3 subjects of Textiles, Food and Product Design.  An ability to teach Product Design/Engineering at KS4 would also be welcome.

For further information on this role, please refer to the Job Description/Person Specification in the documents below.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974. The amendments to the ROA 1974 (Exceptions Order 1975, (amended 2013 and 2020)) provide that when applying for certain jobs, certain spent convictions and cautions are protected and they do not need to be disclosed to employers. If they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website and further information about filtering offences can be found in DBS filtering guide.

Beckfoot Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all applicants as part of our overall vetting checks.

Our full recruitment policy is available here and if you have any questions, please contact cthompson01@beckfoot.org or call 01274 771444