Job title: Head of Design Technology Department

Location: Liverpool, L6 

Start date: September 2023

Position: Full Time

Applications close date: May 31^st 2023

Salary or salary scale: Main Pay Scale

Must have qualifications or experiences: QTS, Enhanced DBS

Brief Summary

Aquinas Education are looking for a full-time Head of DT for a school in Kensington, L6  with a September 2023 start.

About the role:

Full-time Head of DT Department for a secondary school in Kensington, Liverpool.

The school are looking for a teacher who can develop ideas for lessons and approaches to teaching whilst also leading the department, and acting out the additional duties that come with this senior role. Preparing pupils for exams, assessments, and the next stage of their academic careers.

This is the ideal opportunity if you are looking for a senior teaching position within the DT Department that will challenge you to use a variety of teaching methods and new developments in the curriculum to teach a range of year groups, containing pupils of various abilities, attitudes, and experiences.

You should have a teaching qualification, such as QTS and experience delivering the DT curriculum.

A Seasoned DT teacher is only suitable to apply, due to the additional responsibilities of the role and the senior leadership status.

The School:

The school is a values-led community centred on students' needs. They focus on supporting students to develop as individuals with a strong sense of moral purpose, and the resilience to thrive under challenge.

The academy values are inculcated through the modelling of good practice and through debate. The aim is not to instruct, but to support students as they make informed judgements, leaving young people with the skills they need for life. As part of this, the school encourages students to embrace change, difference, and positive contributions.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a School on a contract basis, with the possibility of temp to perm if both parties are happy.

Summary

• September 2023 start
• Liverpool L6 7UR
• Following Main Pay Scale
• Full-time Position
• Streamlined application process
• Enhanced DBS checks essential

How to Apply

If you are looking to join this excellent Secondary School as the Head of the DT Department, please send your cv and a cover letter via email to Jack Hanson at jack.hanson@aquinaseducation.co.uk

You can also call Jack on 07946035771 | 01513181151

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About Aquinas Education

Aquinas Education is a unique education recruitment agency with offices across the UK. We specialise in sourcing, supplying and supporting our supply staff personally, ensuring they share the same objectives and ethos we strive to give in our approach. Saint Thomas Aquinas is the Patron Saint of Education, where our name originated.

Our ethos is simple; we vigorously promote ambition in schools and educational environments. We are ambitious for our pupils, schools, teachers and other educational workers in an ethical and modern setting. We want to promote the positive meaning of the phrase

“to be ambitious”.

Not only do we supply the most competent teachers and support staff around, but we also give back to the schools by offering a reward scheme, continued support and the chance for positive role models to visit the schools individually. Working within the education sector we believe schools deliver a very high standard of care and teaching. We endeavour to match these aspirations by providing a highly professional service and the best staff.

Equal opportunities

We are an equal opportunities employer strongly committed to safeguarding and promoting children's and young people's welfare. The successful candidate must demonstrate their commitment to children’s safeguarding. All successful appointments will be subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check and other pre-employment recruitment checks.