Are you looking for a supportive educational family that values your unique background and professional growth?
Are you eager to step into a secure, permanent role that sets you up for long-term career progression?
Do you want to hit the ground running with a fresh, exciting challenge starting this September?
About the Role
This is a full-time, permanent position starting in September for an enthusiastic and dedicated Teacher of Art & Design Technology. The successful educator will deliver high-quality lessons across both disciplines, bridging the gap between fine art and functional design. This role demands a forward-thinking professional who can seamlessly adapt teaching methods to scaffold and support learners of all abilities.
About the School
The school is a welcoming, nurturing, and incredibly diverse secondary school located in Leeds. Guided by a deep sense of social responsibility and the core values of solidarity, equity, and equality, the school cultivates a calm, respectful, and highly productive environment where both staff and students can flourish
Key Requirements
... - Qualified Teacher Status (QTS): Holds QTS, QTLS, or an equivalent recognised UK teaching qualification.
- Enhanced DBS: A valid Enhanced DBS clearance registered on the Update Service (or a willingness to apply for one).
- Knowledge of Exam Specifications: Thorough understanding of current GCSE Art and GCSE Design & Technology assessment criteria and exam board specifications.
- Eligibility to Work: Valid legal entitlement to work full-time in the UK.
Key Skills Required
- Responsive Scaffolding: The ability to dismantle complex design briefs into accessible, scaffolded steps for less confident learners.
- Disciplinary Literacy: Skill in explicitly teaching sophisticated, subject-specific vocabulary and artistic terminology to boost student's articulacy.
- Behaviour Management: Expert application of positive behaviour strategies to maintain a focused, quiet, and highly productive workspace.
- Health & Safety Management: Sharp situational awareness for monitoring machine safety, tool allocation, and chemical safety in an art/DT environment.
- Collaborative Curriculum Mapping: Ability to work dynamically with other faculty members to share best practices and build a well-sequenced curriculum.
- Live Marking & Feedback: Highly developed active feedback skills, including live-marking student work in the classroom to deepen immediate understanding
Key Responsibilities
- Lesson Planning & Delivery: Plan and deliver ambitious, well-sequenced Art and Design Technology lessons that stretch the highest-ability students.
- Workshop Safety Leadership: Maintain rigorous safety standards across all classrooms, ensuring students handle tools, sharp objects, and machinery appropriately.
- Material & Resource Preparation: Manage, organise, and prepare physical resources, raw materials, and machinery ahead of practical projects.
- Targeted Literacy Integration: Implement the school's literacy strategy by explicitly teaching subject vocabulary and correcting written errors systematically.
- Progress Tracking & Recording: Consistently assess student portfolios, record technical progress, and utilise data to inform future lesson planning.
- Exhibition & Display Creation: Celebrate student achievement by regularly updating vibrant, inspiring visual displays across the department and school.
- Parental & Community Engagement: Prepare for and actively participate in parent-teacher evenings, progress reviews, and community showcase events.
- Pastoral Duties: Undertake the full responsibilities of a Form Tutor, promoting the moral, social, and emotional well-being of a designated student group.
- Departmental Collaboration: Attend regular staff meetings, contribute to internal moderation, and actively share lesson resources with colleagues.
- Extra-Curricular Enrichment: Support or lead out-of-class creative clubs, workshops, or revision sessions to help students finish portfolio work.
What We Offer:
- A supportive, collaborative working environment.
- Opportunities for career progression and ongoing professional development.
- The chance to make a significant impact on the lives of students.
- Competitive salary and benefits package.
- A Refer a Friend scheme where you could earn a £300 Love2shop voucher (subject to terms and conditions).
Could this be the ideal role for you?
Click "Apply Now" to submit your application for the role of a Art and Technology Teacher. For more information, please contact leeds@randstadeducation.co.uk or call 01132462500 to speak to the secondary team.
