This could not be a more exciting time to lead within the St Mark's family. Following our full graded Ofsted inspection in May 2024, St Mark’s CoE Academy achieved an Outstanding judgment in all areas of the framework. Outcomes at the Academy at Key Stage 4 are in the top 8% of all schools nationally with a Progress 8 Score of 0.71. In 2024 an impressive 68% of all A Levels were awarded A-B grades, 92% A-C grades and 30% of students securing a place at a Russell Group University. Do you have the highest expectations for every member of the school community and believe in transformational education for all, irrespective of starting points and background? Are you able to win hearts and minds with your inspirational vision for school improvement, underpinned by the school’s inclusive Christian ethos and values, Love, Hope and Trust? A re you passionate about high-quality teaching and learning and a life changing quality of education? If you answer ‘yes’ to these questions, we would love to hear from you. We are seeking to appoint a well-qualified and enthusiastic Teacher of Design/Food Technology who can deliver an enriching curriculum, within the Art & Technology department. This post will have a curriculum split of approximately 80% DT and 20% Art, so an understanding of both subject specialisms will be required, but will also be supported by additional CPD. We are offering an exciting opportunity for an experienced or recently qualified teacher to join our successful Art and Technology Department. The suitable colleague will have the desire to develop and deliver an outstanding curriculum offer, which will support the schools’ keys priorities. Our DT department is fully equipped with a well resourced kitchen classroom, for an exceptional curriculum offer. We are looking for someone who believes in building strong relationships with our students and who is willing to go above and beyond to support them in being successful and helping them to realise their God-given potential. You would be expected to develop, plan and deliver highly effective learning experiences to all students across every key stage and lead a transformational extracurricular offer. With our outstanding commitment to developing new teachers, we are delighted to invite applications from both ECT’s and experienced teachers. Successful candidates will transform their practice through our instructional coaching offer. As one of 10 nationally selected Steplab Hub Schools, staff benefit from this expertly led programme underpinned by cutting edge research into cognitive science. St Mark’s Church of England Academy is part of Anthem Schools Trust, a multi-academy trust serving over 8,000 children and young people in 16 schools across the East Midlands, London and the Thames Valley. Full details of the responsibilities can be found in the Job Description and Person Specification for this post. Applications will be reviewed and shortlisted as received and therefore early application is strongly advised. Anthem Trust remains the right to close or extend this advert at any time.