Full-time Teacher of Design and Technology

The Cottesloe School are looking for a full-time Teacher of Design and Technology to join their team in April / September 2025 or earlier.

Salary details: MPS/UPS plus recruitment payment for an exceptional candidate 

Contract type: Permanent

Hours: Full-time

Interviews to be held: To be confirmed

About us

While our postal address is Leighton Buzzard, and our postcode is LU, our school is actually situated in the picturesque rural village of Wing, in Buckinghamshire. Situated close to the border with Bedfordshire, we offer a vibrant and inspiring learning environment in a peaceful setting.

We are a caring school with a highly qualified and exceptionally committed staff, who recognise the importance of creative and challenging teaching and high professional standards. All staff and students are greatly valued and emphasis on student and staff wellbeing is central to our culture.

Offers of employment will be subject to Enhanced DBS clearance, and satisfactory teacher status, qualification, identity, health, online and reference checks as part of the safer recruitment process.

Please see our website for more information about us www.cottesloe.bucks.sch.uk/home

About the role

We can offer you a rewarding opportunity to work in a welcoming and supportive environment. Our students are eager to learn, work hard and achieve well. Pupils and staff treat each other with respect and courtesy. Around the building and in lessons, pupils behave very well. Senior leaders are ambitious for Cottesloe students. The Headteacher is supported by talented and committed staff. Staff are very proud to work at the school. They feel valued because leaders consider their workload. (Ofsted - Continues to be a Good school, November 2021).

As passionate and enthusiastic users of technology, we believe our learners should have an appreciation of the amazing past, present and future devices, pioneers and milestones that impact us all. Much of our current technology is now merely consumed by end-users and we aim to broaden our learner’s horizons by showing how they can master the devices, stretching them beyond their limitations. Lessons will be practical, engaging and theoretical, with an emphasis on expanding their ideas through independent problem solving, research and presentation of solutions.

We aim to develop fundamental principles of both problem solving and effective use of current technology through a range of tasks and scenarios, linked to real-world ideas. Solving technical and commercial problems with software, code and creative ideas for the use of systems will upskill learners to meet the demands of local and national employers in this exciting field. The benefit of these problem-solving approaches are not just restricted to the subject area; students who master computational thinking can apply these to everyday situations, across all aspects of modern life.

About you

We are looking for an enthusiastic full-time teacher to join our team and teach Design and Technology at KS3 and GCSE exam board specifications. The successful candidate will be an outstanding practitioner with a clear vision of how they can inspire students, raising their aspiration and achievement. We would expect excellent subject knowledge as well as the relevant teaching qualification and excellent ICT skills including CAD/CAM.

This is an ideal opportunity for either an ECT to undertake their Induction training in a school with a proven track record of providing excellent professional support for all staff, or for an experienced teacher looking for a new challenge and great CPD opportunities in a supportive school.

Early Career Teachers will be offered comprehensive Induction support.

Other information

Please contact James Poote (Head of Design and Technology) to discuss this role further or visit the school jpoote@cottesloe.bucks.sch.uk

Please complete an application form, providing full details of your education and employment history. CVs cannot be accepted. Your completed application form should be emailed to recruitment@cottesloe.bucks.sch.uk We will review applications on receipt and may close the vacancy early if a suitable candidate is found. No agencies please.

The Cottesloe School is committed to promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people and all staff, volunteers and governors are expected to share this commitment, to follow the school’s safeguarding policies and procedures and to behave appropriately towards children and young people at all times both in work and in their personal lives.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare:

• All unspent cautions and convictions cautions
• All adult cautions and spent convictions that are not protected (i.e. that are not filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2020). For further information on filtering please refer to Nacro guidance, the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) guidance or Ministry of Justice (MOJ) guidance (see, in particular, the section titled ‘Exceptions Order’).

It is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. All shortlisted applicants will be required to complete self-disclosure form and return prior to interview.