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

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.

• East Midlands Motorsport & Logistics Hub: Based in the historic market town of Northampton Northamptonshire the school operates within a rapidly expanding economic area at the heart of the UKs Motorsport Valley and advanced logistics sectors combining a rich heritage in shoemaking with modern technological enterprise.

• Connectivity: The area offers premier East Midlands transit infrastructure providing seamless travel via the M1 motorway corridor (Junctions 15 15a and 16) and the A45 alongside exceptional rail operations running smoothly through Northampton railway stationoffering frequent rapid London Northwestern Railway connections straight to London Euston and Birmingham New Street.

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