Teacher of Design & Technology (Food Technology & Product Design)

Welcome to Heritage High School, a member of The Two Counties Trust

There are many reasons to choose our school, and the Trust, as a great place to start or develop your career. We recognise the importance of happy, rewarded, and motivated employees and as such we have developed our HR and Professional Learning strategies to invest in people.

We are fully committed to supporting your career and professional growth through a range of routes both within the school, externally, and across the Trust, offering extensive professional learning for all employees.

We have removed appraisal and appraisal related progression, recognising the limitations and changed the focus from proving to improving through professional growth which is focused on individual ambitions, enabling everyone to get a little bit better all the time.

We are committed to your welfare as an employee and alongside our own wellbeing and workload management arrangements we have signed up to the Education Staff Wellbeing Charter. If you need additional support on a range of matters, an Employee Assistance Programme is available to you from day one of employment.

We offer highly competitive pay, including some points above national rate, an array of employee benefits including extensive high street retail discounts, gym membership and discounted healthcare.

There are an array of centralised systems which are designed to save you time and avoid duplication of effort, these are based on the work of experts across the Trust, meaning that your time can be focused where you need it to be.

We hope you will join us in a great environment where you can work with a team of dedicated and like-minded professionals.

Welcome from the Headteacher

Heritage High School is a thriving 11-16 secondary school in the heart of the community. We are an increasingly popular school, all year groups are oversubscribed and we currently have 1,000 students on roll. Collectively we are committed to the very best for our students.

In a fast-moving world where nothing is certain, we want our students to know that they will be supported and equipped to make good choices as they grow from children into young adults. We are a school that offers high quality pastoral care and believe it is important to know each individual. We offer support to all students to ensure they feel safe and cared for, giving them the best chance of success in life. Heritage High School aims to help all of our students to develop into caring young adults, aware of their place in the modern world and able to make a difference.

We believe that learning should be interesting, engaging and relevant. Our curriculum has been carefully designed by subject specialists to ensure that all students have the opportunity to pursue their interests and that students are challenged to succeed to the best of their abilities. Employability and progression are key drivers that underpin our curriculum to offer students relevant paths upon leaving school, supported by expert advice regarding the routes on offer. This is all supported through the outstanding facilities that we have on offer at the school including specialist science labs, design technology workshops, fantastic PE facilities, dance and drama studios.

We are a school that encourages and expects all students to take a full and active part in their own learning through active participation in all lessons. In addition to lessons through the school day we offer a wide range of extra-curricular activities across several areas.

The quality of our teaching is high and maintaining this is my number one priority. To achieve this all employees at Heritage High are fully supported to develop themselves professionally. Our in-house and Trust professional learning programme is a particular strength and all employees are encouraged and expected to tap into the array of opportunities on offer.

To develop and improve the school further we need to recruit the best people at every opportunity. We are looking for people who are committed to improving the life choices of Heritage students and who can fit the friendly, hard-working and ambitious profile of the employees already here.

If you haven’t already, I would recommend that you visit the school and see us in action. We are always happy to meet prospective applicants and to talk openly and honestly about the school and the post on offer.

Debbie Elsdon

The Two Counties Trust

With secondary schools across Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, we are an ambitious Trust with a strong reputation. We have nine secondary schools, over 11,000 students and 1,500 employees.

We exist to provide our students with opportunities and experiences to enhance their life choices, making a positive contribution to the world we share. Collectively we serve our communities by educating and preparing our students for the next steps in their lives.

Leaders across the Trust are fully committed to striving for excellence in all that we do. We understand that families trust us each day with their most prized possession i.e their child, and we all are here to serve the students in our care.

Our values are:

Ambition:   We maximise our potential through striving for excellence.

Teamwork: We give 100% effort, displaying kindness and humility for the benefit of all.

Honesty:    We are respectfully open about our successes and areas for growth.

To find out more about us, please go to The Two Counties Trust website.

We look forward to welcoming you to our Trust in the near future.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

Please note that it is an offence to apply for this role if you are barred from engaging in Regulated Activity relevant to children.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. Any offer of employment will be subject to the receipt of a satisfactory Enhanced DBS disclosure with a children's barred list check, receipt of references and successful completion of vetting procedures.

In accordance with the statutory guidance Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE), an online search will be conducted as part of due diligence on shortlisted candidates to identify incidents or issues that may have happened, and which are publicly available online, which we may need to explore with shortlisted candidates.

The school's child protection policy can be located at: https://www.heritage.ttct.co.uk/our-school/policies-and-documents.

The Trust's policy on the employment of ex-offenders can be located at: www.ttct.co.uk/our-trust/policies.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and as such we are committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce. Candidates with a disability who meet the minimum job criteria will be given an opportunity to demonstrate their abilities at interview.