Design & Technology/Food Teacher
Temporary role for academic year 2025/2026, in the first instance
We are a school where excellence, innovation, and opportunity come together to create an outstanding learning environment for both students and staff. The academy is situated at the heart of its community in Worksop. Worksop is known as the “Gateway to the Dukeries” due to its proximity to several historic ducal estates, including Clumber Park, Thoresby Hall, Welbeck Abbey, and Worksop Manor.
We are deeply committed to putting students first, raising standards, and transforming lives. We believe that learning should be both enjoyable and enriching, allowing students to make exceptional progress. Our knowledge-rich curriculum is designed to personalise learning for every student, helping them to reach their potential.Our Performing Arts Department excels, producing, choreographing and performing brilliant shows.
If you are passionate about education and looking to join a dedicated team that strives for excellence, we warmly invite you to explore the exciting opportunities at our academy. We value and invest in our staff, offering high-quality professional development, a collaborative and dynamic working environment, and the opportunity to make a real difference.
We believe that a school is more than just a workplace—it is a family. As such, we support, uplift, and inspire one another to create the best possible environment. As a family, we celebrate each other's successes, stand by each other in challenging times, and work together with a shared sense of purpose.If you share our values, come and join our school family. Apply now and take the next step in your career with us.
Design and Technology at Outwood Academy Valley is a practical, valuable and hugely popular subject. It enables students to actively contribute to the creativity, culture, wealth and well-being of themselves, within our community. It teaches how to take risks and so become more resourceful, innovative, enterprising and capable.Students develop a critical understanding of the impact of design and technology on daily life and the wider world. Additionally, it provides excellent opportunities for students to develop and apply value judgements of an aesthetic, economic, moral, social, and technical nature both in their own designing and when evaluating the work of others.
The Academy wishes to appoint an inspiring and enthusiastic subject specialist who will engage with our ethos which places students first. Being a committed and imaginative teacher you will support the rapid and on-going developments within the faculty as we strive to improve attainment across the academy.
Applications are invited from both experienced and recently appointed teachers who wish to develop their career within a fast-moving environment.
If you would like any further information about the Design Technology department or the role, please contact Nick Ruddlesdin, Head of Department at n.ruddlesdin@valley.outwood.com
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Closing date: Midday on 2 June 2025.
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Outwood Grange Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All appointments are made in accordance with safer recruitment practices and the statutory guidance in Keeping Children Safe in Education. Online checks will be carried out on all shortlisted candidates, and all appointments are subject to an enhanced DBS check, satisfactory references and checks regarding suitability to work with children.