Teacher of Design Technology

Advert – Teacher of Design Technology (Resistant Materials)

Contract: Full time, Fixed term until August 2024

Salary: MPR1-UPR3 £28,000 - £43,685

Location: Burscough Priory Academy

Start Date: 1 September 2023

Can you make design and technology an inspiring and rigorous and practical subject? Do you have creativity and imagination to help our students design and make products that solve real and relevant problems? Have you got the skills to educate our young people so that they understand that high-quality design and technology education makes an essential contribution to the creativity, culture, wealth and well-being of the nation? If so, read on.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and passionate teacher of Design Technology to join our close-knit team who actively support each other to ensure that all of our students and staff thrive. This position includes teaching Design Technology, specifically Resistant Materials. Full support and training will be given to the successful candidate. 

Burscough Priory Academy joined the Endeavour Learning Trust in September 2018 and has thrived as part of a successful family of schools. Our students are hardworking, enthusiastic and keen to work with the staff to get the very best out of every day at school. Since 2018, there has been rapid and sustained improvement, recognised by Ofsted in November 2022 when were judged a ‘Good’ school. Our staff are wholly optimistic, completely committed and work as one in the spirit of E Pluribus Unum.

On behalf of our staff, we are firmly committed to ensuring this is a job that can be enjoyed, where everyone can flourish because we pay close attention to work/home balance. Across the Trust, we continue to develop strategies that take a common-sense approach to those aspects of the role that could become an unnecessary burden on workload - these include feedback, marking and centralised detentions.

Our Teaching School is the beating heart of our Trust and from right across the Trust our teachers learn together. They share their practice, encourage and support each other to get the best out of the working day. The candidate will have opportunities to work with other colleagues in the Teaching School to support the development of the curriculum and teaching in Design Technology across our family of schools.

In our schools we have a relentless focus on excellence, expect the highest standards of behaviour but we have a pragmatic emphasis on the balance between challenge and support, high expectation and nurture. And this counts for students and staff, teaching and non-teaching, so that our schools develop a family ethos, where everyone wants the best for everyone else.

In our team, our teachers are committed to continuously improving the classroom experience of our students with a genuine desire to improve their life chances.

If you think this sounds like a place you would like to develop your career and your love of teaching then you can apply online, completing the TES application form.

As part of the interview, you will be asked to plan and deliver a lesson and then discuss it with the panel.

Prospective candidates are welcome to contact the school for a telephone conversation prior to the final application please contact Miss P. Murray, Operations Manager at p.murray@burscoughprioryacademy.org to organise a convenient time.

Applications should be submitted by 9.00am on Tuesday 30 May 2023. 

Interviews are to be held Wednesday 31 May 2023.

This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check

Endeavour Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and individually take responsibility for doing so.