Middle School Teacher of Art and Design Technology - The Kingsway School
Contract: Permanent 
Closing date for applications:
19 May 2025, 11.00am 
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Middle School Teacher of Art and Design Technology
Contract type: Full Time, permanent
Location: The Kingsway School, Gatley
Required from: September 2025
Salary: MPS/UPS
Closing date: 19/05/2025 @ 11:00am
Interview date: W/C 19/05/2025
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 passionate and 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
About ELT
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).
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