Director of Design Technology and Art (to include Teacher of Technology)

(L6 – 10 for the right candidate to lead the newly emerging faculty and also embrace a negotiated whole school responsibility.)

This is both a challenging and exciting time to be working at Coundon Court School.  I hope that you will be enthused and excited by the prospect of working in a highly oversubscribed school where student behaviour is excellent and levels of attainment look set to significantly exceed national benchmarks. Your appointment is designed to add to our capacity in order to deliver an 80% plus school.   

Our challenge is to ensure a delivery of excellence at all levels of operation and maintain the necessary high levels of drive and ambition required as we encounter a sequence of changes to public examinations and accountability measures. 

We require an ambitious and dynamic person to develop the place Design, Technology and Art at Coundon Court. You will have the potential to manage high expectation through robust challenge and engaging teaching. The post is available with a range of possible additional responsibility. If appointed as faculty lead you would be responsible for the whole faculty and its facilities. For the leadership post, you would also want to accept some negotiated whole school responsibility. 

Design Technology and Art and Design have a secure place within our curriculum plan and every student is entitled to an hour a week in Years seven and eight. Each subject is then a GCSE option at the start of Year Nine when students embark on a three year programme of study. 

The two subjects work closely together to develop performance and resilience in excellent, purpose built facilities. A Level Design, Art and Photography are delivered in the Sixth Form.  

A successful candidate will have the opportunity to build and develop from strong foundations and work alongside a strong and committed team of talented practitioners. 

We offer a great opportunity for you to develop your career in a dynamic and forward thinking school where parent support is excellent and levels of attainment are set to beat all external targets. As a large school with over 120 teachers you will be exceptionally well supported as we drive to secure consistently outstanding levels of achievement. Successful candidates should look forward to a challenging but productive context within which to work where there is every opportunity to flourish and to lay excellent foundations for career progression. Our pay policy allows for reward where staff generate outstanding outcomes.

Please log onto our website www.coundoncourt.org or come and visit our school to see for yourself the potential that exists. Mr. Sam Mohomed, Deputy Headteacher will be available for candidates to discuss posts on an informal basis over the telephone.

To obtain further details please contact Mrs Linda Phillips on 024 7633 5121 or email vacancies@coundoncourt.org.

Coundon Court is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.  The successful application will be required to apply for an enhance DBS disclosure.

Closing Date: Friday 26 April 2019 (Midday)

Start Date: September 2019