Lead Teacher of Design and Technology

Job details

Job role: - Teacher - Head of department or curriculum

Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored

Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5

Subject: Design and technology

Working pattern: Part time: 0.8 FTE

Contract type: Permanent

Pay scale: MPS / UPS

Additional allowances: TLR3

What skills and experience we're looking for

Candidates will need to demonstrate they are:

• Provide strategic leadership for Design and Technology across Key Stages 3–5
• Lead curriculum development, assessment, and quality assurance within the department
• Model outstanding classroom practice and support colleagues in developing their expertise
• Teach across a range of Design and Technology disciplines with creativity, confidence and adaptability
• Contribute to extracurricular opportunities that enrich students’ learning

Champion innovation, practical learning and high standards of achievement

What the school offers its staff

We can offer you:

• Outstanding middle leadership and senior leadership training opportunities, and opportunities to participate in transition and curriculum development and delivery across the Wessex Learning Trust
• The full support of a dedicated and committed team of staff
• A commitment to offering excellent CPD opportunities.
• Reduction in teaching contact time to enable you to fulfil your leadership responsibility
• Staff benefits, including discounted gym membership and cycle to work scheme
• Teacher Pension Scheme with a generous employer contribution in excess of 20%, subject to pension eligibility criteria.
• A staff assistance programme with specialist provider, CareFirst who provide a 24/7 free phone helpline, or face-to-face counselling for every employee in the Wessex family.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

The Wessex Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding young people and promoting the welfare of children, and all staff appointed will undergo online checks and be required to undertake an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service Check.

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Additional documents

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Lead Teacher of Design and Technology Job Description March 2026.pdf - 390 KB (opens in new tab)

Lead Teacher of DT March 2026 Advert.pdf - 409 KB (opens in new tab)

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School type: Academy, Church of England, ages 13 to 18

Education phase: Secondary school

School size: 1050 pupils enrolled

Age range: 13 to 18

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Kings is a high achieving 13-18 years school. Exam results are consistently high year-on-year, with students making outstanding progress from Key Stage 2 to 4, and after the Sixth Form many students go on to top universities.

Accolades and league tables are important, but there is more to Kings than percentages and statistics.

We believe in every child, and have high expectations for them regardless of their background. We take pride in excellent attendance and behaviour, a positive attitude, and smart uniform. We want every child who attends Kings to be happy in their learning and believe that they can succeed.

Our dedicated and committed staff are here to guide and support students on a daily basis so that they feel loved, cared for and supported.

Kings is very much a community school within the heart of the beautiful Cheddar Valley here in Somerset, and is an Upper School of the family of soon to be 16 First and Middle Schools.

We are part of the Wessex Learning Trust that strives to offer a world class, 21st century education for all young people between the ages of 2 and 18, by providing outstanding learning opportunities and creating centres of educational excellence that meet the needs of all children.

We are passionate that our work in the classroom inspires a love of learning, enquiry and creativity as we strive to develop our young people to prepare them for life and their next steps in our globally competitive world.

As an Upper School, exams are obviously a significant part of our work and goals and, therefore, every lesson and every piece of homework really counts. We encourage students to do their best and take pride in their subjects so that ultimately in the final exams they will realise their true potential.

Students who join Kings at age 13 in Year 9 follow a continuous curriculum, meeting the full suite of subjects, developing their study skills, before embarking fully upon their Key Stage 4 courses for their GCSEs. For the final year of Year 11 each student is assigned a staff Mentor with whom they meet to review progress and extra support and to feel really boosted. Students are also encouraged to attend golden time extra sessions during the year and, as the exam season gets closer, a dedicated programme of revision sessions in the Easter holidays.

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