Gunnersbury Catholic School
England
£37,870 - £56,154 per year
Salary:
MPS/UPS + TLR 2C(Outer London)
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
01 January 2026
Apply by:
16 October 2025
Job overview
Gunnersbury Catholic School is seeking to appoint a highly talented and ambitious Head of Design and Technology at our Outstanding School. This post provides a fantastic opportunity for an aspiring Design and Technology Teacher to receive the very best coaching and experience in their leadership journey. As a department design and technology has been integral to Gunnersbury year on year achieving extraordinary outcomes for our students. An environment as ours, can enable you to become the very best design and technology teacher and a highly successful school leader.
The Role
Our leaders are integral to Gunnersbury's success through their oversight of superb teaching outstanding achievement is enabled for all. The Head of Design and Technology is key to Gunnersbury's provision of excellent teaching and achievement within Design and Technology. The new postholder shall seek to further the learning experience and outcomes of our students. Further to examination success, the department keenly seeks to establish a love of design and technology within our students.
The Person
Above all else we seek to appoint a superb teacher with a real passion for history, who is committed to the success of their students and the talent to be an exceptional leader within the school. Previous leadership experience, whilst helpful, is not as important as potential, dynamism, determination and resolve. We seek an outstanding teacher with the insight and capability to lead and inspire students and staff alike. Our excellent school and history department will provide the experience, training and guidance to enable this ambition to be fulfilled.
The School
Year on year Gunnersbury Catholic School has developed our staff to become fantastic teachers and leaders. In doing so, from one year to the next, we have enabled unparalleled success for our students.
Our school is:
* a Catholic community where care for each other, student ambition, pupil motivation and behaviour are exemplary
* committed to providing quality support, guidance and coaching to develop our staff so that they may progress to the highest levels as teachers and leaders
* highest achieving for GCSE boys non-selective school in the country
* an environment that enables achievement of the highest order 93% 5 GCSEs at 9-4 including English and Maths in 2025, Progress 8 score of +1.0
* The setting that achieved the highest proportion of A*s at A-Level in the borough
* determined by Fischer Family Trust as being amongst the top 3% of schools Nationally
* determined 'Outstanding' by Ofsted (2023)
* determined 'Outstanding' in all areas by Diocese of Westminster (s48 inspection, 2019)
* a workplace where staff are a friendly, welcoming and helpful team
School prospectus
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About Gunnersbury Catholic School
Gunnersbury Catholic School
The Ride, Boston Manor Road, Brentford
London
TW8 9LB
United Kingdom
Gunnersbury is a Voluntary Aided School for Catholic boys. It takes six forms of entry at 11+ and is administered by a Board of Governors acting under the trusteeship of the Archdiocese of Westminster. The annual intake is 184 pupils and the total number of pupils on roll is 1180, including a Sixth Form of 224 boys and 48 girls. The annual intake is 184 pupils and the total number of pupils on roll is 1210, including a Sixth Form of 203 boys and 51 girls. We achieved 'Outstanding' in all categories of our recent Ofsted Inspection in January 2023. The school regularly achieves excellent examination results. In % of year 11 pupils gained at least five GCSEs at 9-4, including English and Maths. Our 'Progress 8' score for this cohort was +1.1. As such we are ranked as the leading Boys' Comprehensive School for GCSE in the country. Similarly we achieve excellent results at A- level.
The school was founded in 1919 by Fr William Roche, became a Voluntary Aided Grammar School in 1932, took its first comprehensive intake in 1972, became Grant Maintained in April 1993 and returned to Voluntary Aided in September 1999. It has been designated a Specialist School in September 2003. Since then we have been awarded a further specialism, Leading Edge, whilst also achieving High Performance Specialist Status.
Although located in the London Borough of Hounslow, Gunnersbury considers itself a Diocesan School and draws from a wide catchment area consisting mainly of the London Boroughs of Hounslow, Ealing and Richmond, but some pupils attend from even further afield coming from Central London, Brent, Hillingdon, Spelthorne and Harrow.
The Catholic character of the school is an essential and important part of school life. It is made explicit not just in the religious education programme and shared values but in the liturgical life of the school. There is a voluntary mass on Fridays and important feast days together with family liturgies, a retreat programme and Morning Prayer in Advent and Lent. The School Chapel is set-aside as a quiet area for prayer and liturgy.
The school is led by a Headteacher supported by three Deputy Heads within a senior staff of 7. Each member of the Senior Leadership Team is responsible for a distinct pastoral, academic, administrative and policy area of the school. Departments are subject based. The school has a well-developed system of pastoral care, overseen by a Year Head and Form Tutor. High standards of behaviour and dress are expected and the pastoral system aims to promote the development of self-discipline and consideration for others. The School Council meets regularly chaired by a member of the Sixth Form.
Gunnersbury is always over-subscribed with first choice applications from Catholic pupils. Our mission is to continue to provide these pupils with the very best Catholic education for their lives ahead.
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