Design Technology Teacher

The Art and Design department at Northolt High School is very successful and Key Stage 4 results have been strong for a number of years. We are looking for a Design and Technology teacher to join our successful team. Our Art and Design department currently offers four KS4 courses: Art, Catering, Photography and 3D Design. These options are all consistently well subscribed. We are looking for a DT teacher who will be confident in teaching across all technology subjects at KS3 and Food Technology at KS4.

We maintain a broad and balanced curriculum offer for all students. We are developing the school so that it has STEAM specialism (the ‘A’ is for Art) whilst at the same time retaining a breadth of curriculum offer for our students. Our curriculum offer includes a broad range of extra-curricular activities as all teachers offer one after school activity a week.

Our Art and Design team comprises a Subject Leader who is a DT specialist, three Art Teachers, one other DT teacher and two Technicians. Teachers all teach aspects of Design Technology as well as their own KS4 specialisms to our Key Stage 3 students.

At Northolt High School, our vision, mission and values underpin everything that we do. Our aim is to enable our students to develop strength of character, to be articulate and confident and to secure the best academic outcomes possible. Our school vision is "committed to excellence". Our mission statement describes how we work to achieve this core aim - through "seizing opportunity, instilling ambition, realising potential". Join us and you will be welcomed by a hard-working, dedicated staff and subject team who are united in their focus on student achievement and continuous school improvement.

We work in partnership with an organisation called Sycol which supports us in ensuring that we have clear systems in place, which are developed and agreed by staff collectively. Termly innovation projects involve every member of staff, helping us to quickly and effectively share ideas whilst forging strong partnerships across the staff team. These projects ensure that systemic school improvement is embedded in everything we do whilst at the same time providing all staff members with a high quality leadership development programme.

Northolt High School is a Foundation School in the London Borough of Ealing. Ealing schools have traditionally worked very collaboratively and it is no coincidence that Ealing’s performance in national league tables is strong. Schools in Ealing have come together to form the Ealing Learning Partnership (ELP) in conjunction with the Council. This partnership provides us with a range of networks so that Northolt High School staff are able to share and develop ideas and practice with Ealing colleagues across a range of schools.

It is an exciting time to be joining Northolt High School as we also have a new building project on the horizon, with work beginning in Easter 2024. This brand new school building will deliver state of the art facilities for our Art and Design team including a D&T workshop, food technology room, two and 3D Art classrooms and two digital photography classrooms. We should be moving into the new build during the 2025-6 academic year.

We will be the right school for you if you are committed to:

• Ensure outstanding progress and attainment in key stage four courses as required.
• Play a full part in termly innovation projects to contribute to the development of school- wide continuous improvement.
• Continue to promote the profile of your department through contributions to the wider life of the school.
• Undertaking safeguarding training as required and fulfilling all safeguarding responsibilities as outlined in the job description.

We can offer you:

• Great support and training as you develop your career.
• The opportunity to innovate and bring in new ideas to contribute towards improving our school.
• A caring and supportive professional environment, with an early finish every Friday to promote a good work/life balance.
• A thoughtful and well-structured school calendar with careful attention paid to balancing teacher workload.
• A commitment to providing high quality opportunities for you to continue your professional learning.
• A flexible approach to your career, with increasing numbers of our teachers working on part time contracts.

Our recruitment process

One of the Ealing Learning Partnership projects we have been engaged with in the last two years is a ‘No Learner Left Behind’ project to improve the outcomes of our Black Caribbean students. Informed by our work on this project, we conduct an annual analysis of the ethnicity profile of our student body. Our long term aim is to ensure that the profile of our staff group matches that of our students. At the moment, we are underrepresented in the following ethnicity groups: Arab, Asian, Black Caribbean, Black African and Traveller of Irish Heritage. We would therefore welcome applications from candidates who would classify themselves as belonging to these groups.

We are introducing a ‘blind’ selection process this year which we also hope will support us in reducing the risk of any unintended bias during our recruitment process. You will see that our application form is in two parts. Part one, which contains details about candidates’ gender, ethnicity and age, is not shared with the staff who select candidates to bring them forward to the interview stage.

A Job Description & Person Specification plus an application form can be found on our website: www.northolthigh.org.uk If you would like to find out more about the school prior to your application, please contact Carol Gleeson, the Headteacher’s PA on cgleeson@northolthigh.org.uk.

Please email your application to: recruitment@northolthigh.org.uk by 9am on Friday 15 March 2024.

Interviews to be held: Wednesday 20 March 2024.