Teacher of Design and Technology (Food Specialism – Maternity Cover) - The Grange School
Location: Aylesbury
Overview
Required for September 2025 or earlier, if possible, an enthusiastic and effective food specialist Design and Technology teacher to take on a maternity cover within the department, to teach across Key Stages 3 & 4. Applications from ECTs are welcome.
Term time only
Salary Type: MPS
Salary details: MPS
Contract type: Fixed Term
Hours: 32.5 hours per week
Closing date: 11/06/2025 09:00
Interviews to be held: Applications will be considered upon receipt, and interviews can take place at any time. The school reserves the right to close this post at an earlier date should a successful appointment be made.
About us
The Grange is 'More Than Just a School'
We are a supportive team with community at the heart of everything we do. Passion, creativity and inspiring
a love of learning are celebrated and embraced. Our relentless professional commitment to supporting and empowering students is both valued and rewarded.
Judged to be a Good School by Ofsted in April 2024, we are a mixed, non-selective 11-18 Foundation secondary school situated in the market town of Aylesbury and ten minutes from the Chiltern Hills – an area of outstanding natural beauty. We are close to Oxford, High Wycombe and Milton Keynes and surrounded by delightful market towns and characterful villages. The students and staff at The Grange School make it a fantastic place to work. Our students are friendly and confident and we strive to ensure that they achieve the success that they deserve. Together we have created a successful community school, where students learn the skills for success.
We support our staff with a robust staff well-being programme. All staff have access to a wealth of free support resources and materials to ensure they feel supported and happy.
Website: https://www.grange.bucks.sch.uk/
About the role
Required for September 2025 or earlier, if possible, an enthusiastic and effective food specialist Design and Technology teacher to take on a maternity cover within the department, to teach across Key Stages 3 & 4. Applications from ECTs are welcome.
For further information please see attached Job description.
About you
You will have the energy, enthusiasm, and flexibility to enable students to achieve the highest possible standards.
Committed to raising attainment, you will have the ability to motivate and inspire both staff and students. You will have the energy, enthusiasm, and flexibility to lead a highly dedicated team of professionals and enable students to achieve the highest possible standards.
Other information
Visits to the school are welcomed.
Further details are available on our website. We welcome applications regardless of age, gender, ethnicity or religion.
Apply via https://www.grange.bucks.sch.uk/contact-us/vacancies
Please send completed application forms to the email address below.
Tel: 01296 390900
Email: [email protected]
The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of students, thus an enhanced DBS disclosure will be required.
The school is committed to ensuring that safeguarding is a top priority and will consider carrying out online searches on shortlisted candidates as part of their due diligence. Online searches solely aim to help identify any incidents or issues that have happened, and are publicly available online, which the school may want to explore with the applicant at interview. Please follow this link for more details:
https://www.grange.bucks.sch.uk/contact-us/vacancies/online-searches-on-shortlisted-candidates
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare:
- All unspent convictions and conditional cautions
- All spent convictions and adult cautions that are not protected (i.e. that are not filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2020).
For further information on filtering please refer to Nacro guidance and the guidance issued by the Ministry of Justice (see, in particular, the section titled ‘Exceptions Order’).
It is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. All shortlisted applicants will be required to complete self-disclosure form and return prior to interview.
