The Kingsway School
Foxland Camus
Foxland Road
SK8 4QX
0161 428 7706
Job Title: Middle School Teacher of Art and Design Technology
Salary: MPS/UPS
Hours: Full Time
Contract type: Permanent
Closing date: Monday 19th May 2025
Interview Date: TBC
Start Date: September 2025
recruitment@kingsway.stockport.sch.uk
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
Details of the Role
Are you a creative educator looking to inspire the next generation of artists and designers? The Kingsway School is seeking a dynamic and innovative Middle School Teacher of Art and Design Technology to join our thriving secondary school. This exciting role offers a unique opportunity to teach across both subject areas, with a balanced 50/50 timetable split between Art and Design Technology.
As a member of our creative faculty, you will deliver engaging, high-quality lessons in both Art and Design Technology to students across Key Stages 3. You will foster a love of creativity, problem-solving, and independent thinking, while supporting students in developing both practical and theoretical skills.
We are looking for someone who can make a real impact within our team bringing new ideas and experiences along with them. The successful candidate will inspire students to get involved in creative pursuits, contribute to the development of our extra-curricular provision and can lead in the classroom creating and teaching innovative lessons that inspire our young people to explore and communicate their ideas through visual medium.
No matter where you are on your current journey, if you feel like this is the place for you then we would love to hear from you.
In addition, there is the possibility of pastoral responsibility available with this role.
Please read our comprehensive recruitment pack to discover more about our school and about our Art and Design Technology Department.
Our pack includes details about:
Our curriculum vision
Our unique middle school and upper school model
Our staff wellbeing charter
Our bespoke ECT training program
Our enhanced professional development opportunities
Testimonials from current staff
Please return applications to: recruitment@kingsway.stockport.sch.uk
For further details of this exciting opportunity, please see the job description and person specification.
Education Learning Trust is a Multi-Academy Trust, educating over 3500 pupils from age 2 to 16 in the Greater Manchester area. We are very proud of our inclusive ethos to Collaborate, Empower and Achieve and provide over 490 employees with an inspiring and innovative place to work, with exceptional training and development opportunities.
As a Trust employee you will receive excellent benefits, including a highly competitive salary, well-regarded pension scheme, excellent career development opportunities and support for your health and wellbeing, with our award-winning employee assistance programme.
Our vision at ELT is to create an exceptional learning journey for all, by providing:
exciting, innovative and challenging learning communities
school improvement strategies arising from evidenced based research and professional enquiry
opportunities for professional development and leadership
a celebration of the diversity and uniqueness of individual settings
Innovation in practice by recognising the value of learning partnerships, both locally and nationally
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
We ensure that we have a range of policies and procedures that promote safeguarding and safer working practices. This is in line with statutory guidance including Keeping Children Safe in Education and The Education Act 2002.
All offers of employment are subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records, online checks and vetting checks. It is an offence to apply for a role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.
Education Learning Trust. Registered address: Hawthorn Road, Gatley, Cheadle, Cheshire, SK8 4NB. A charitable company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales (company number: 09142319)
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020). This means that certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’ and do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account.
Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974.’
We are committed to fulfilling our Equality Duty obligations, including valuing equality and diversity and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
We are committed to employment practices that promote diversity and inclusion in employment regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, sex, marriage and civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity status, race, religion or belief.
We expect the successful candidate to have the necessary standard of spoken English, as described under Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016, the Public Sector fluency duty that requires state funded schools to ensure candidates for their customer facing roles have the necessary standard of spoken English (or English or Welsh in Wales).
Candidates should apply by completing the ELT application form, CVs alone will not be accepted in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE).
The application forms and an information pack are available to download from the schools website. Completed forms should be returned to the school via the above email address or posted to the school address above.
This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
The successful applicant's appointment will be subject to satisfactory pre-employment clearances including a Disclosure and Barring Service check.
Stockport Council Valuing Diversity
ELT Please note that this is a private organisation and the appointed candidate will be employed by Education Learning Trust directly
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