Curriculum Leader - Design Technology
About This Role
Our Design Technology & Engineering Department
We wish to appoint a teacher who is keen to work
with ambitious boys in a well-resourced area and with an exciting team. We can
accommodate a colleague with any specialism to work in our fully equipped
modern design technology and engineering department, although we prefer a product
design, engineering, or electronics specialist. Our facilities can also
accommodate food preparation and nutrition. We currently offer electronics and
engineering at GCSE and engineering at GCE. The teaching will be across the age
and ability range and there is an opportunity to teach at both GCSE and to
contribute to teaching in the highly successful Sixth Form.
Our Staff
We recognise that our staff are our greatest resource. Therefore, we are ambitious for our staff and invest heavily in their development. We offer an extensive programme of professional development with a range of opportunities for training, including internally and through local and national programmes. We have strong partnerships with universities and higher education institutions and actively support staff pursuing heavily subsidised Masters degrees and other higher qualifications. There will also be opportunities to collaborate within our local partnership of schools and work across school on various projects. We constantly seek feedback and try to be “the best that we can be”. Below is a recent quote from an anonymous staff voice survey (November 2024):
“I feel very lucky to work in such a supportive workplace alongside very skilled and caring colleagues.”
Our Location
We are situated in a tree-lined neighbourhood of Isleworth, a vibrant area of West London. The school is close to Osterley Park and a short hop from central London by tube (Osterley is a 10-minute walk) or rail (Isleworth is a 7-minute walk). There is easy access to the M3, M4 and Heathrow Airport.
Visit Us
We welcome enquiries from everyone and value diversity in our workforce. We want to make sure we are attracting the widest possible range of people and ensure that they are accepted, understood and treated equally when they work here. This means we will work hard to understand that each employee is unique and ensuring that individuals or groups are not treated differently or less favourably on the basis of specific characteristics. Such characteristics include (but are not limited to) age, disability, gender including transgender, race, religion, sexual orientation, marital status, and how the school supports pregnant women and new parents.
You are very welcome to arrange to visit us and to experience why we are such a successful school and a fantastic place to develop your career.
Application details
Further recruitment details, including a School Information Pack and a role information document (with curriculum and facilities details) and an application form are on our website: https://www.isleworthsyon.org/Vacancies/.
Alternatively visit the Teaching Vacancies site at GOV.UK or click on TES ‘Quick Apply’.
Please ensure that all sections of the form are completed. Early application is encouraged, as suitable candidates will be interviewed promptly on receipt of completed forms. If we fill the post, we will bring forward the closing date.
Isleworth & Syon School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful applicant will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references and other pre- and post-employment checks, including, where appropriate police checks from other countries.
Our Data Protection Policy and our Privacy Notice for applicants, can also be found on the website.
More about Isleworth & Syon School
Type: Mainstream School Address: Ridgeway Road, Isleworth, Middlesex, TW7 5LJ
Phase: Secondary with Sixth Form Telephone: +44 20 8568 5791
Funding status: State – Academy http://www.isleworthsyon.org
Gender: Boys and mixed Sixth Form email: school@islewothsyon.org
Age range:
11-19 years