Start date: ASAP
End date: July 2025
Location: South Gloucestershire
Hours: Full time (potential for flexibility)
Salary/rate: MPS1 – UPS3
School details:
QT Education is recruiting on behalf of a coeducational secondary school and sixth form, located in South Gloucestershire. The school, with around 800 students enrolled, has earned a ‘Good’ rating from Ofsted.
Role:
- Deliver a range of Design & Technology subjects across KS3-KS5
- Engage and inspire students, fostering a love for Design & Technology
- Contribute to the ongoing development and success of the Design Technology department
- Responsible for the academic performance and behaviour of the groups taught
- To plan and prepare lessons
- To keep accurate records of all the work covered by all teaching groups
- To keep accurate records of all students’ progress
- To contribute to the schemes of work
- To deliver all aspects of the curriculum
- To carry out tasks allocated with the faculty/subject area
Experience, Qualifications and Training:
- We seek a qualified and enthusiastic teacher of Design Technology
- Must be appropriately qualified – QTS, QTLS, PGCE or equivalent
- Ability to teach GCSE Design Technology (advantageous but not essential).
- Up to date Safeguarding training issued in the last year (desirable however not
- essential). Training will be provided.
- Suitable role for experienced teachers and early career teachers (ECT)
Skills, Abilities and Attributes:
- A commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people
- Good teaching skills
- A passion for Design Technology
- A commitment to pastoral care
- An ability to develop good working relationships with students and staff
- Good interpersonal and communication skills
- Enthusiastic about working with young people
- Good organisational and personal management skills
- High expectations of all students
- Self-reliant
- Good ICT skills
- Good time management
Eligibility to work in a teaching role:
- Holds Right to Work in the UK
- Provide two professional child related references that cover the last two years
- Enhanced DBS with Barred List check certificate which is either on the online ‘Update Service’ or be willing to apply for a new DBS certificate
QT Education is dedicated to the safeguarding and promotion of children’s welfare. The suitability to work with children and young people is integral to the selection process. Applicants are required to undergo comprehensive child protection screening, which includes checks with previous employers, online searches, enhanced DBS and barred list checks.
All appointments are contingent upon thorough vetting. Applying for a role is an offence if the applicant is barred from engaging in regulated activities involving children. This teaching post is exempt from Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.
How to apply:
- If you would like to find out further information regarding this role or similar positions within the South West, please forward your CV to QT Education today.
Why work with QT Education:
- We are a family-owned business, we ensure both schools and teachers are treated as we would want to be treated ourselves!
- We specialise and work exclusively with Secondary Qualified Teachers in the South West. As highly experienced Education Recruiters in the South West, we use our expertise to secure you local work, specific to your individual requirements
- We offer a local and personalised service; we place you at the heart of the recruitment process
- Our rates of pay compare favourably to other agencies in the South West and we pay our teachers via PAYE (not via umbrella companies)
- All processes of the business are managed internally, as a result, we are highly efficient
What do Teachers that have worked with us before have to say?
“QT Education is the best agency I have ever engaged with. They always respond to text messages/calls quickly and keep me updated. The staff at QT Education are always so friendly, accommodating and honest”
“It is a pleasure to work with such a successful, friendly and efficient agency”
“I have worked for other agencies and QT is the best agency that I have worked for, some of the other agencies I would prefer not to work for again”
“I have been working with QT for around 6 months and it has been a refreshing change, I have enjoyed an honest and transparent approach. Please keep it up”