DT Teacher

Role: Teacher of DT

Academy: Outwood Academy City

Start Date : 1st January 2027 or sooner if possible

Salary (Actual Salary): £34,069 to £52,835

Working Pattern: Part Time / Full Time

Are you a dedicated and highly effective educator committed to raising the achievement of all students within your subject area? Join us as a Teacher, where you will be instrumental in delivering high-quality learning, utilising a range of teaching and learning strategies to ensure student success.

This position requires a professional who is aware of strategies for improving learning, understands curriculum developments, and is creative in finding solutions to enhance student performance.

Welcome from the Principal:

As Principal of Outwood Academy City, I am really proud to be able to introduce you to our amazing academy. Since I started, ‘new leaders have begun to transform the culture of the school’, so come and join us on our transformative journey. Serving the bustling city of Sheffield, Outwood Academy City has undergone a huge transformation for its 1200 students, with an innovative curriculum and a personalised approach to learning, enabling our young people to realise their vocational, practical, creative and academic abilities. Pupils learn an ambitious curriculum that the school has carefully sequenced to ensure that we give our young people the best chance to succeed. Our students are a really special group of young people, and they are at the heart of everything we do. Alongside our ambitious curriculum, and, as a result of high-quality pastoral care, pupils at Outwood Academy City are safe and well-cared for. Come and take a look at what we offer, and see if you could be a part of our team - #WeAreCity and we are striving for excellence. We love what we do, and we welcome enthusiastic, dedicated and hard-working people, whatever your experience, to join us on our mission.

We are proud to be part of the Outwood Family, a Trust renowned for its commitment to transforming lives and raising standards. If you share our passion for making a real difference in the lives of young people, we would be delighted to welcome you to our team.

About the Department:
Are you a Food or Design Technology enthusiast ready to inspire the next generation? Do you dream of a career where you can truly make a difference?

We are looking for an energetic, enthusiastic and inspiring classroom practitioner with a real passion for Design and Technology with a specialism in Food. We offer an exciting opportunity to join a supportive and motivated team, and you must possess the skills and determination to make a significant difference to the lives of our students and share our single goal of ‘students first’. Applications are invited from the following subject disciplines: Food or Resistant Materials.

The Design and Technology department is a friendly, supportive and high-performing team of teachers. The department includes a combination of experienced and more recently qualified staff. The department is a great place to start your career as a teacher, as well as somewhere where more experienced staff can thrive.

The department is well resourced with subject-specific equipment. There are two Product Design classrooms and two Catering classrooms. Every classroom has a visualiser, and these are used extensively by the team in episodes of guided practice. There is a substantial departmental office, and the department is supported by two technicians (Product Design and Food).

The Design and Technology curriculum is built with the end in mind, and the KS3 curriculum prepares students for the KS4 qualifications of WJEC Hospitality and Catering (vocational) and AQA Design and Technology. These programmes of study are fully resourced with high-quality materials.
If you have any questions or would like to visit the school, please contact Helen Wardle, Head of Department at [email protected].
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Essential qualifications include a degree in an appropriate discipline related to the relevant subject and a teaching qualification coupled with Qualified Teacher Status (QTS). Required experience includes recent and relevant teaching experience (either in employment or training) and experience of assessment at Key Stage 3 and 4.

The successful candidate will be confident in using standard computer packages (word processing, email, and spreadsheets) and understand how these tools can enhance student learning. The role demands high levels of professionalism, including the ability to relate to students in a pleasant and sympathetic manner, and a capacity to recognise potential child safeguarding issues.

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