Design & Technology Teacher

Outwood Academy Valley; New Kingston; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 24,000; Part time

Job summary

Outwood Academy Valley is seeking a dedicated Design Technology teacher for a 13-hour-per-week, term-time-only post. This temporary role for one academic year focuses on delivering high-quality learning and using a range of teaching strategies to raise student achievement within Design and Technology.

The successful candidate will join a team committed to improving attainment and supporting rapid, ongoing improvements across the faculty.

Qualifications

• Applications are invited from both experienced and recently appointed teachers.
• Temporary for one academic year in the first instance.
• The role is within the Design and Technology department.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality learning using a range of teaching and learning strategies to ensure student success.
• Contribute to the ongoing development within the faculty as we strive to improve attainment across the academy.
• Engage with the ethos prioritising students and support colleagues in achieving departmental goals.

Job description

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.

Working Pattern: 13 hours per week, Term Time Only. Temporary for one academic year in the first instance.

About the Department

Design and Technology at Outwood Academy Valley is a practical, valuable and hugely popular subject. It enables students to actively contribute to the creativity, culture, wealth and well-being of themselves, within our community. It teaches how to take risks and so become more resourceful, innovative, enterprising and capable. Students develop a critical understanding of the impact of design and technology on daily life and the wider world. Additionally, it provides excellent opportunities for students to develop and apply value judgements of an aesthetic, economic, moral, social, and technical nature both in their own designing and when evaluating the work of others.

The Academy wishes to appoint an inspiring and enthusiastic subject specialist who will engage with our ethos which places students first. Being a committed and imaginative teacher you will support the rapid and on-going developments within the faculty as we strive to improve attainment across the academy.

Applications are invited from both experienced and recently appointed teachers who wish to develop their career within a fast-moving environment.

If you would like any further information about the Design Technology department or the role, please contact Nick Ruddlesdin, Head of Department at [e-mail].

Closing date: Midday on 14 September 2026.

Interview date: 18 September 2026.

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Outwood Grange Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All appointments are made in accordance with safer recruitment practices and the statutory guidance in Keeping Children Safe in Education. Online checks will be carried out on all shortlisted candidates, and all appointments are subject to an enhanced DBS check, satisfactory references and checks regarding suitability to work with children.