Teacher of Technology
Contract type: Permanent, Full Time
Location: The Kingsway School, Foxland Road, Gatley, Cheadle Cheshire, SK8 4QX
Required from: September 2023
Salary: Main Scale
Closing date : 9am Monday 8th May 2023
Interview date : TBC
Are you an outstanding teacher? Do you thrive on success and want to join an inspirational team? We are currently seeking to appoint an outstanding teacher of Technology who is able to teach across the disciplines to contribute towards our improvement.
The Kingsway School is a large successful 11-16 comprehensive school, located in between the popular Cheadle and Gatley areas of Stockport.
Our students and staff are committed to our ethos of Opportunity, Achievement and Respect.
Judged to be a GOOD school by Ofsted in January 2019.
Do you have the same drive and ambition to join our dedicated, hard-working team of professionals? You will need to be:
● An excellent teacher, willing to work hard and have a dynamic, innovative and creative approach to learning and have the highest expectations of academic achievement and student conduct
● Able to inspire students to embrace opportunity, exceed potential and welcome challenge
In return we will offer you an exciting opportunity to develop and flourish in a school with a vision to be number one.
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 450 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.
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).
For further information, Job Description and Application Form please visit the Vacancies Section on our website at www.kingsway.stockport.sch.uk.
Candidates should apply by completing the ELT application form, CVs alone will not be accepted in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE).
Please return applications to recruitment@kingsway.stockport.sch.uk
If you would value an informal discussion about the post, please contact Dee Mistry, via email at recruitment@kingsway.stockport.sch.uk or call the school on 0161 428 7706.