DT Teacher | Highly Regarded School | Milton Keynes

We require an innovative, safety-conscious Design & Technology (DT) Teacher to deliver outstanding practical and theoretical instruction across Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4, with opportunities to contribute to post-16 specialist pathways. Operating within an ambitious, oversubscribed secondary comprehensive school widely celebrated for its strong academic progress and deep community pride, the successful candidate will facilitate a dynamic, hands-on curriculum spanning Product Design, Timbers, Metals, and Polymers, alongside electronic systems, preparing all pupils thoroughly for exceptional outcomes in terminal GCSE Design and Technology and vocational technical awards.

Our comprehensive school operates as a proud, community-focused secondary provider dedicated to raising academic standards, celebrating technical innovation, and serving the wider Milton Keynes community. The campus features state-of-the-art design studios, heavy-duty workshops equipped with CAD/CAM technology, 3D printers, laser cutters, and a highly collaborative creative arts and technology faculty. Our behaviour management framework relies on strict organizational structures, clear behavioural expectations, and mutual respect, maintaining an exceptionally safe, orderly, and highly purposeful environment where pupils can confidently master complex tools, machinery, and design methodologies.

Key Tasks & Daily Operations

• CAD/CAM & Practical Workshop Instruction: Plan, resource, and deliver high-impact DT lessons across all attainment pathways, balancing theoretical design principles with hands-on material manipulation, orthographic drawing, and 2D/3D computer-aided design software processing.
• Rigorous H&S Workshop Management: Maintain absolute workshop safety and discipline, teaching pupils the safe, precise operation of band saws, pillar drills, sanders, and hand tools in strict accordance with health and safety legislation and departmental risk assessments.
• GCSE Non-Exam Assessment (NEA) Optimization: Provide systematic, high-tier guidance to Year 11 cohorts working through their extensive design portfolios and practical prototypes, utilizing data-driven tracking to maximize marks across context analysis, design development, and evaluation sections.
• Closing Progress & Technical Gaps: Identify and target learning barriers within mixed-ability cohorts, deploying scaffolded logic models, material testing templates, and targeted practical assistance to ensure workshop spaces remain fully inclusive for SEND pupils while stretching high-attaining designers.
• Inclusive Pastoral Support: Fulfil full form tutor responsibilities within an established year group structure, supporting pupil wellbeing, managing daily registration routines, and maintaining proactive, positive communication with families.

Profile Requirements

• Qualifications: Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) or a recognised equivalent teaching credential, paired with a strong honours degree in Product Design, Product Engineering, Three-Dimensional Design, or a closely related technical discipline.
• Pedagogical Capability: A proven track record or clear capacity to deliver strong progress metrics and high-grade retention in terminal public GCSE specifications and NEA portfolios through structured, explicit, and safety-oriented design pedagogy.
• Creative & Industry-Facing Ethos: An unwavering commitment to comprehensive education, possessing the technical agility, excellent communication skills, and industrial passion required to connect classroom projects directly to modern engineering and manufacturing disciplines.

Regional Context

• The Oxford-Cambridge Tech Arc and Smart City Innovation: Based in the pioneering city of Milton Keynes, the school capitalizes on a world-class regional identity defined by rapid modern urban growth, smart city technology, and its strategic placement within the Oxford-Cambridge high-tech corridor. The city’s status as a major global hub for autonomous vehicle testing, robotics, and advanced engineering provides rich, real-world links for structural systems, digital electronics, and CAD/CAM prototyping modules, connecting classroom design and technology theory directly to vanguard industrial design, logistics automation, and technical innovation.
• Connectivity & Infrastructure: The campus benefits from premium South East and Midlands transport infrastructure, offering exceptionally fast road commuting via the unique grid road network (including the H and V grid roads, Saxon Street, and Watling Street), alongside direct access to the M1 motorway and the A5 dual carriageway. Public transit routes connect seamlessly via comprehensive local networks and micro-mobility transit systems, while Milton Keynes Central and Bletchley railway stations provide high-frequency, rapid rail links on the West Coast Main Line and the newly operational East West Rail infrastructure, connecting the school directly to London Euston, Northampton, Coventry, Birmingham, and Oxford.

Please submit your current CV to begin the application process.