Engineering/Design & Technology Teacher
The JCB Academy
Rocester
- £30,267 - £45,220 per year
- Expired
- Salary:
- Pay Award Pending
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 8 January 2024
- Apply by:
- 4 October 2023
Job overview
Do you have a passion for inspiring the next generation of engineers and would you like to be part of a world class team of engineering teachers? If so, we have an opportunity that will interest you.
We are seeking to appoint an engaging and inspiring Engineering/D&T Teacher to start with us in January 2024. You will be joining a team of dedicated staff who are passionate about changing young people’s lives by developing them into the engineers and business leaders of the future. This role requires personal and professional commitment and the ability to work successfully as part of a team is essential. You will have responsibility for leading the quality of teaching and learning for learners in your classes. This will involve setting and articulating high expectations for learners and planning and teaching effectively using appropriate resourcing to challenge and engage all learners.
The JCB Academy is innovative, unique and unlike any other school, developing business leaders and engineers from Y9 to Sixth Form and providing Intermediate (level 2) and Advanced (level 3) apprenticeship programmes. We also deliver Business and Engineering T-levels which provide learners with additional qualification choices after their GCSEs. With cutting-edge facilities, world-leading partners and genuine industrial challenges that bring theory to life, our learners are equipped with aptitudes and skills that prestigious apprenticeship providers, universities and global companies look for in future business leaders and engineers.
The JCB Academy provides learners with a unique curriculum developed by the academy and its core partners. Working with the likes of Bosch Rexroth, Harper Adams University, JCB, Rolls‑Royce and Toyota Motor Manufacturing, we ensure that the curriculum is embedded in real industrial practice and includes genuine industrial challenges. Our aim is to provide a world class experience to learners and staff.
We are situated close to Uttoxeter, a picturesque market town supporting a variety of independent shops, cafes and bars. The town is surrounded by characterful villages with an abundance of culture and attractions right on the doorstep. This great value location has quick links to major cities, high quality homes that allow younger people and families to get onto the property ladder and close access to the glorious Peak District.
Please contact the HR Department by email to recruitment@jcbacademy.com or on 01889 506100 if you would like any additional information or to arrange an informal visit.
This position is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and shortlisted candidates will be required to complete a criminal record self-declaration
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Appointment to this post will be subject to a satisfactory Enhanced DBS check which will include a check of the Children’s Barred List.
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About The JCB Academy
The JCB Academy is a school specialising in business and engineering. We teach learners from Y9 to Sixth Form and provide Intermediate (L2) and Advanced (L3) apprenticeship programmes as well as Business and Engineering T-Levels which provide additional choices post-GCSE.
Our approach pairs classroom learning with practical application, and we have an impressive range of world-class industry partners who help with that. JCB, of course, but also including Bosch Rexroth, Harper Adams University, Rolls-Royce and Toyota Motor Manufacturing. Names that can turn heads with learners and lock in their learning engagement.
We aim to change lives by developing the engineers and business leaders of the future. We do this by:
· Working closely with our world-leading industrial partners.
· Having dedicated staff who inspire our learners.
· Ensuring every learner has a meaningful destination.
We work tirelessly to ensure that those entrusted into our care have every chance to achieve success. It is important that learners achieve well academically to ensure that they can compete in the marketplace for higher education places and employment. It is also important that we work to develop those core skills essential for success, not just in the world of work but also in life. The JCB Academy looks to ensure that all learning enables young people to develop:
· Can do/positive attitudes.
· The desire to achieve through actions.
· Creative and enterprising behaviours.
· A willingness to learn in the pursuit of technical and academic excellence.
· Team work and leadership capability.
We have high expectations of each and every learner who will join us. Great store is placed upon self-discipline, good behaviour, uniform, teamwork and co-operation. These traditional values are at the heart of all we undertake at The JCB Academy.
We offer first class career development, excellent CPD, wonderful learners, an innovative education vision, great links to industry and higher education and an opportunity to work in a unique environment with fantastic facilities. There are also plenty of opportunities for staff to organise exciting trips and activities linked to our curriculum, to get involved in extra-curricular enrichment days and to participate in residential trips both in the UK and overseas.
Our staff benefits package includes an Employee Assistance Programme (including financial guidance, legal enquiries, support for issues at home and at work), interest free financing through BHN Extras to buy the latest technology through salary deductions, discounted shopping with over 85 big-name retailers and discounted gift cards and eGifts, access to JCB’s dental scheme (monthly fee), free access to the academy’s gym, free on-site parking, Cycle scheme and paid time off for significant birthdays.
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