Job Description

Salary:

TMS/UPS + TLR1D

Job type:

Full Time, Permanent

Apply by:

6 May 2025

Job overview

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HEAD OF DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY (TMS/UPS+TLR1D)

To lead a successful team which achieves excellent results at KS4 and KS5. The person appointed will lead the development of the department and the curriculum as well as being an excellent teacher with the skills and energy to help pupils achieve the best that is possible.


This is a rare opportunity to lead a large, very well resourced, and thriving D&T department for those existing or aspiring middle leaders who wish to lead and enhance a dynamic team with a strong culture of professional learning and development.


Design and Technology is valued highly at St Paul's and is taught to all students through to year 11. More recently the department has been awarded ambassador status by the OCR exam board. This is due to excellence in the delivery of our KS4 and KS5 qualifications.


St. Paul's is a growing and successful Catholic school which continues to celebrate and promote Science through our previous college status. Our commitment to excellent teaching and learning can be demonstrated through bespoke CPD opportunities and through the management of a growing and successful training school.


All staff members are committed to the care and success of pupils and working in a setting where values of forgiveness, concern for others and respect are shared as the core values of St. Paul's regardless of faith.


For further details and an application form please visit the school website www.st-pauls.org.uk, e-mail enquiries@st-pauls.org.uk or call 01908 669735Closing date for applications Tuesday 6th May 2025 at 9.00am


We will review applications on receipt. Suitable candidates may be interviewed before closing date and reserve the right to withdraw the position if an early appointment is made.



St. Paul's Catholic School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All references will be requested and Online Searches prior to interview. The successful candidate will be subject to satisfactory Enhanced DBS Check.

About

St Paul's Catholic School

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St Paul's Catholic School

Phoenix Drive, Leadenhall, Milton Keynes
Buckinghamshire
MK6 5EN
United Kingdom

+44 1908 669735

About St Paul's Catholic School:

St Paul's is a thriving, mixed 11-19 comprehensive school with specialist training status. We have over 1800 pupils and are voluntary aided. Our Emmaus Student Support Department supports a range of difficulties from specific learning difficulties to moderate learning difficulties, physical difficulties and behaviour. We also have three specialist provisions for those with a diagnosis of Autistic Spectrum Disorder, vision impairment or hearing loss.



With the Local Authority we run The Emmanuel Centre, a purpose-built facility for pupils with ASC who are academically able to access a mainstream curriculum but find the environment of a mainstream school challenging. We are the only Catholic secondary school in Milton Keynes and, with over 60 native languages spoken at St Paul's, it's true to say that we are a very diverse and inclusive community. Our curriculum provides a holistic education in which we enable children to develop their personal gifts and talents, their spiritual, social, moral and emotional understanding of the world, as well as their academic knowledge and skills.

Headteacher:

Mrs Jo-Anne Hoarty

Values and vision:

Our school motto, Ministerium Tuum Imple translates as Love, Serve, Do the best that is possible. All members of our community try their very best to follow Christ's example and through the lens of Catholic Social Teaching, we educate children on how they can use their faith to guide their interactions and decisions. St Paul's is a community of opportunities where staff and pupils are supported to use their talents and gifts and encouraged to develop new ones.

Ofsted

Leaders are effective because they have taken the right steps to improve the school. They show clear leadership and are well supported by staff. Governors have made significant changes to the way they work. As a result, they are very knowledgeable about the school so they successfully challenge leaders and hold them to account well. Teaching is good across all key stages because staff are committed to continually improving their practice.



View St Paul's Catholic School's Ofsted report