Heanor Gate Spencer Academy
Location
Derbyshire | United Kingdom
Job description
Full Time, Permanent, from September 2024
MPS/UPS (£30,000 to £46,524)
We are seeking to appoint a dynamic, highly skilled, passionate and enthusiastic teacher of Design and Technology, where teaching and learning is at the heart of our collaborative practice. The successful candidate will possess excellent organisational and teaching skills with the ability to inspire and motivate students.
The DTVA faculty offers a broad curriculum and within the Design & Technology department, students are taught a combination of Product Design, Food Technology and Graphic Design at Key Stage 3. Product Design and Hospitality and Catering are popular courses at Key Stage 4. We have built links with local restaurants so students can gain an insight into what it is like to work in the catering industry, gaining first hand experience of working in a kitchen serving paying customers. Product Design at Key Stage 5 is an exciting course which enhances the learning gained during year 11. The department itself is well resourced including a heat treatment room for metalwork, two laser cutters and both wood and metalwork lathes. We have computer suites with CAD software and a 3D printer. Also within the faculty, we offer Art, Photography and Graphic Design and also have a Hair and Beauty salon onsite where students offer services to the public. Extra curricular clubs are held regularly within the different disciplines, offering opportunities to extend and develop routes for career development.
Heanor Gate Spencer Academy is an ‘ Outstanding’ secondary school and sixth form (Ofsted, June 2023) which is oversubscribed in Year 7 for the second successive year. We are extremely proud of our inspection report which is a testament to 7 years of school improvement. It states that ”teachers are subject experts”, “pupils are ambitious about their future”, “classrooms are calm places, where pupils focus on their learning” and “leaders are relentless in their desire to provide the absolute best education for all pupils and to serve the local community”.
Read more about our Outstanding Ofsted report here:
Over the past 7 years we have developed an inclusive, disciplined culture which has culminated in a student body full of aspiration, commitment and success. The staff buy into #TeamHeanor and this ethos of collegiality, team values and moral compass is what makes the unique working environment at Heanor Gate so enjoyable and fulfilling.
As well as the staff being united by the concept of #TeamHeanor, to ensure that our students succeed at school and in life, all students work towards demonstrating the following values in all aspects of school life:
Through an ethos of ‘Aspire, Learn and Achieve’, we believe that all of our students will achieve their very best educational outcomes. This ethos is at the heart of everything that we do. We want our students to believe that they can achieve whatever they want to with hard work, resilience and self-motivation.
The Spencer Academies Trust is a multi-academy trust with schools across the East Midlands, and with a strategic focus on Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.
A high performing regional MAT with a national reputation for excellence, Spencer Academies Trust schools include primary, secondary and sixth form provision. Our academies work across highly diverse city and rural communities, including a strong presence in Derby and Nottingham. Standards and expectations in trust schools are high – and the trust focus on rapid improvement on the journey to outstanding education delivery.
Spencer Academies Trust is an educational charity, Multi-Academy Trust and Sponsor of Academies. We have approaching 18000 children and young people in our academies and employ more than 2200 teachers, leaders and educational support professionals across the East Midlands. We aspire to be a leading regional high performing Trust, with a national reputation for excellence.
We currently have 17 primary academies, 8 secondary academies and one primary aged special school in our family of schools. All of our schools benefit from the collaboration and added value that being a member of our Trust offers, and share our values and beliefs. Spencer Trust academies share an ambition to deliver results that compete with the very highest performing schools in the country, and deliver a curriculum for students that is underpinned by breadth, opportunity and quality: one that seeks to give young people the opportunity to develop into well rounded global citizens that believe they can influence positive change in the world.
Mission: Our Mission is to deliver the best possible outcomes for children and young people.
Vision: Spencer Academies Trust is an exceptional Trust, providing an outstanding education for local children.
We Believe:
Applicants would be expected to share the Trust’s high aspirations and expectations for pupils and staff.
For more information on this post please contact Gemma Kidd at [email protected] or on 01773 716396
We offer a comprehensive range of employee benefits, please visit:
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In line with safer recruitment policies references will be called for, prior to interview.
Closing date: Wednesday 13th March 2024
Interviews taking place: w/c 18th March 2024
Our application deadline may end earlier where we have received a high and early positive response, so if you are keen to apply, please add your profile to this vacancy as early as possible.
Spencer Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our students and all posts are subject to enhanced DBS with children’s barred list checks and completion of Level 2 safeguarding training.
Spencer Academies Trust is a Disability Confident Committed Employer
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