CORE PURPOSE

We require an ambitious, safety-conscious, and intellectually rigorous Design & Technology Teacher to deliver high-quality practical and theoretical instruction across Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4. The role involves facilitating a challenging, project-based curriculum that deepens spatial reasoning, material properties mastery, and computer-aided design and manufacture (CAD/CAM) proficiency, preparing pupils thoroughly for terminal public examinations and future engineering, design, and technical pathways.

KEY TASKS & DAILY OPERATIONS

• Curriculum Design & Instruction: Plan, resource, and deliver highly structured Design & Technology lessons encompassing timbers, polymers, metals, and electronics, challenging pupils across all technical abilities.

• Workshop Leadership & Safety: Coordinate and execute workshop operations with absolute adherence to health and safety standards (BS 4163), ensuring pupils master hand tools, heavy machinery, laser cutters, and 3D printing equipment safely.

• Academic Progress Monitoring: Implement systematic formative and summative portfolio assessment routines, tracking project folders alongside practical outcomes to design targeted interventions that close learning gaps.

• Examination Preparation: Guide Key Stage 4 cohorts systematically through the demands of terminal GCSE Design & Technology or technical award specifications, balancing strict deadline management for Non-Examined Assessments (NEA) with theoretical exam prep.

• Pastoral Care Integration: Undertake full form tutor responsibilities, managing daily registration, monitoring pupil attendance, and delivering the school's structured personal development units.

ENVIRONMENT & STRUCTURE

• Academy Framework: Operating within a forward-thinking multi-academy trust, our school combines a robust, data-led approach to student progress with extensive professional development networks, providing collaborative department planning and structured pathways designed to accelerate teacher growth.

• Behaviour Systems: The campus implements highly consistent, school-wide behaviour routines that maintain a quiet, respectful, and orderly atmosphere, ensuring technical workshops remain calm, predictable, and entirely optimised for safe practical execution.

PROFILE REQUIREMENTS

• Qualifications: Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) or an equivalent recognised teaching credential, paired with a strong honours degree in Design & Technology, Product Design, Engineering, or a closely related technical discipline. Current DATA health and safety certificates are highly desirable.

• Pedagogical Capability: A proven track record or clear capacity to deliver strong progress and high-attainment metrics in terminal GCSE NEA folders and written papers through explicit, structured pedagogy.

• Routine Implementation: The ability to execute workshop safety policies and school behaviour systems with absolute consistency, maintaining a positive, highly focused, and strictly disciplined workshop culture.

REGIONAL CONTEXT

• Technological Innovation & Smart City Infrastructure: Based in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, the school operates within a premier, pioneering "new town" famous for its unique grid design, extensive green spaces, and status as a major UK hub for high-tech engineering, digital tech, and autonomous systems.

• Connectivity & Regional Growth: The locality sits at a vital junction of the southern growth corridor, offering seamless commuting via the M1 motorway and the A5 trunk road. It is positioned adjacent to Bedfordshire, where major economic transformations are underway—including the massive infrastructure developments for the upcoming Universal United Kingdom Resort, which is projected to recruit up to 80% of its workforce from the immediate local area (including Milton Keynes). Rail transit runs smoothly via Milton Keynes Central, providing lightning-fast Avanti West Coast and London Northwestern Railway services directly to London Euston, Birmingham New Street, and Manchester Piccadilly.

APPLICATION INTAKE

Please submit your current CV to begin the application process.