Design & Technology (DT) Teacher | Comprehensive Academy | Luton

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.

• 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 schools structured personal development units.

• 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.

• 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.

• Industrial Reinvigoration & Tech Innovation: Based in the major industrial and commercial town of Luton Bedfordshire the school operates within a rapidly developing urban economy. Known historically for hat-making and Vauxhall automotive manufacturing Luton is undergoing significant modern transformation driven by an expanding aerospace tech sector advanced engineering initiatives and a multicultural community profile.

• Connectivity & Proximity to Regional Developments: The locality boasts premier transit infrastructure offering seamless commuting via the M1 motorway corridor (Junctions 10 and 11) and the A6. Rail transport runs smoothly across the Thameslink and East Midlands Railway networks via Luton and Luton Airport Parkway stations providing direct links to London St Pancras International Brighton and the Midlands. Additionally Luton sits directly inside the Bedfordshire county lines placing it in immediate proximity to the massive economic boom surrounding the upcoming Universal Studios UK development projectbringing major long-term technical digital and engineering opportunities to the local student populace.

Please submit your current CV to begin the application process.