Teacher of Design Technology
Salary scale: Main Pay Scale 1-6 (£30,004 - £39,209)
Contract term: Permanent
Working time: Full time
Required from: January 2025 (or sooner if possible)
Join Our Creative Design Technology Team!
Are you passionate about inspiring the next generation of designers and makers? Do you thrive on seeing students succeed and grow? If so, we have the perfect opportunity for you!
About the Role
We are looking for a dynamic and enthusiastic Design Technology teacher to join our thriving academy. This role offers the chance to teach resistant materials (wood, metal, plastics) and 3D art, making a significant impact on a diverse group of learners. You will be responsible for the delivery of design technology and some aspects of art (up to KS3), including 3D design.
What We Offer
- Supportive Environment: Be part of a thriving academy where your contributions are valued.
- Career Development: Opportunities for professional growth and career advancement.
- Collaborative Team: Work with dedicated professionals who share ideas and strive for excellence.
What We're Looking For
- Passionate Educators: Individuals committed to delivering outstanding support to young people.
- Compassionate Carers: Those who are caring and dedicated to making a positive change in students' lives.
- Adaptable Professionals: Ability to work across different classes and provide 1:1 supervision and personal care.
Why Harborne Academy?
At Harborne Academy, our motto is 'Aspire, Believe, Achieve'. We cultivate a supportive and respectful environment where both students and staff thrive. Our recent Ofsted inspection highlighted our positive relationships and the safe, happy atmosphere we create.
Taken from our recent Ofsted Inspection in November 2022: 'Aspire, Believe, Achieve' is at the heart of Harborne Academy. Aspirational words and images surround pupils in corridors and classrooms. Pupils welcome these. Pupils and staff share positive and respectful relationships. Pupils value the support staff give them. This motivates pupils to achieve well, and they do. Pupils are happy and safe at school.
We are a great school to work in for a number of reasons:
- Fantastic CPD: Extensive professional development opportunities.
- Diverse Community: A vibrant and exciting academy which is culturally and ethnically diverse.
- Wellbeing Focus: Members of the Education Staff Wellbeing Charter, supporting the mental health and wellbeing of everyone in education.
- Staff Benefits: 1 paid absence staff day per academic year (for weddings, etc.) and 24-hour access to our Employee Assistance Programme, offering services like virtual GP, stress coaching, counselling, physiotherapy sessions, and more.
Who Can Apply?#
We welcome applications from both ECTs and experienced educators. If you have excellent subject knowledge and a passion for design technology, we want to hear from you!
How to Apply
For more information and to apply, contact Jodie Massie at Hays Education on or email
Closing Date: 4th October 2024
Interviews: W/C 14th October 2024
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
Harborne Academy is committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We adopt a fair, robust, and consistent recruitment process across the academy, which is in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance, which may also include an online search as part of our due diligence on shortlisted applicants. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, suitable references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check.
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