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Curriculum Team Lead of Design and Technology
| Posting date: | 09 May 2025 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 16 May 2025 |
| Location: | Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF4 5HE |
| Company: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 60a30242-b74c-4bc2-9856-120a4d1c1cad |
Summary
What skills and experience we're looking for
Horbury Academy are seeking to recruit an inspirational Curriculum Team Leader with vision, expertise and the desire to lead a forward-thinking team. The successful candidate will build on existing strengths within the department and drive improvements to ensure that excellent teaching leads to sustained success, skills or experience in an Engineering capacity are desirable.
Horbury Academy is an Ofsted ‘good’ rated secondary academy with great facilities and a fantastic Design and Technology department.
We are looking for an outstanding practitioner who can enthuse, engage, motivate and inspire both students and staff. The successful candidate should have demonstrable experience of leading others to deliver successful outcomes. Your role will involve shaping the curriculum to meet the needs of our diverse pupil body and ensuring alignment with industry standards. You will have a deep interest in the attainment of pupils at every ability level and show vigour and initiative. The Design and Technology department at the Academy are an outstanding team of professionals who are vibrant and forward thinking.
If you have the vision and skills to deliver inspirational teaching whilst having the focus and drive to ensure successful outcomes are reached, we’d love to hear from you.
We are confident that new staff joining our Trust will feel welcomed and happy to have chosen us. Prospective applicants are welcome to visit prior to applying.
What the school offers its staff
As a Trust, we have developed an extensive range of employee benefits, and we also encourage prospective candidates to look at our website for further information regarding our ‘People Pledge’ and our recently launched Employee Benefit package Working For Our Trust - Accord (accordmat.org).
Here are a few examples of employee benefits that focus on our employees Financial, Physical and Mental Wellbeing:
• Membership to either the Teachers’ Pension Scheme or the Local Government Pension Scheme
• Technology scheme via SmartTech*
• Access to an extensive discounts platform via Accord Rewards
• Access to an industry leading Employee Assistance Programme
• 24/7 access to an online GP or Advanced Nurse Practitioner through Healthcare Cash Plans
• Cycle to Work Scheme*
• Free annual flu jab
• Trained Mental Health First Aiders in all our settings
*restrictions apply
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
Horbury Academy are seeking to recruit an inspirational Curriculum Team Leader with vision, expertise and the desire to lead a forward-thinking team. The successful candidate will build on existing strengths within the department and drive improvements to ensure that excellent teaching leads to sustained success, skills or experience in an Engineering capacity are desirable.
Horbury Academy is an Ofsted ‘good’ rated secondary academy with great facilities and a fantastic Design and Technology department.
We are looking for an outstanding practitioner who can enthuse, engage, motivate and inspire both students and staff. The successful candidate should have demonstrable experience of leading others to deliver successful outcomes. Your role will involve shaping the curriculum to meet the needs of our diverse pupil body and ensuring alignment with industry standards. You will have a deep interest in the attainment of pupils at every ability level and show vigour and initiative. The Design and Technology department at the Academy are an outstanding team of professionals who are vibrant and forward thinking.
If you have the vision and skills to deliver inspirational teaching whilst having the focus and drive to ensure successful outcomes are reached, we’d love to hear from you.
We are confident that new staff joining our Trust will feel welcomed and happy to have chosen us. Prospective applicants are welcome to visit prior to applying.
What the school offers its staff
As a Trust, we have developed an extensive range of employee benefits, and we also encourage prospective candidates to look at our website for further information regarding our ‘People Pledge’ and our recently launched Employee Benefit package Working For Our Trust - Accord (accordmat.org).
Here are a few examples of employee benefits that focus on our employees Financial, Physical and Mental Wellbeing:
• Membership to either the Teachers’ Pension Scheme or the Local Government Pension Scheme
• Technology scheme via SmartTech*
• Access to an extensive discounts platform via Accord Rewards
• Access to an industry leading Employee Assistance Programme
• 24/7 access to an online GP or Advanced Nurse Practitioner through Healthcare Cash Plans
• Cycle to Work Scheme*
• Free annual flu jab
• Trained Mental Health First Aiders in all our settings
*restrictions apply
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.