Job description
Product Design Teacher
Location: York, North Yorkshire
Start Date: September 2025
Salary: MPS/UPS; £31,650 - £49,084 per annum
Contract Type: Full-Time
Are you a passionate and innovative Product Design Teacher looking for an exciting opportunity to inspire the next generation of designers? If so, GSL Education are recruiting a Product Design Teacher to work within a Client Secondary School located in York, North Yorkshire, starting in September 2025.
About the School:
- The school was graded by Ofsted as ‘Good’ in all areas, where all staff have high expectations of their pupils.
- The school was also graded as “Outstanding” by SIAMS.
- Established in the 1800s, the school proudly strives to provide a 21st century education for all their young people.
- The school offers encouraging learning in a Christian environment, where all students are cared for, respected, and given chances to help others.
- Home to state-of-the-art facilities, which promotes the school’s curriculum preparation for an appreciation of life in modern Britain.
- Performing arts, music, dance, and drama, are an essential part of every student's education at both Key Stages 3 and 4.
- The school currently works with students who have a wide range of additional needs, such as dyslexia, physical disabilities, issues with speech, language, and communication, conditions on the autism spectrum, more general learning difficulties, individuals with rare syndromes, impairments to hearing and vision, and attention deficit disorders.
About this Role:
- Deliver engaging and creative Product Design lessons.
- Implement and deliver an appropriately broad, balanced, relevant and differentiated curriculum for students and to support a designated curriculum area as appropriate.
- Plan and assess student progress.
- Support students by delivering differentiated Product Design lessons that are accessible to students with varying special needs.
- Contribute to the development of the D&T curriculum and extracurricular activities.
Product Design Teacher requirements:
- A UK teaching qualification namely e.g. PGCE in Product Design and Technology or B.Ed with QTS.
- Proven experience teaching Product/Design Technology, ideally in an SEN or inclusive setting, with a strong understanding of the challenges and strategies for working with students with SEN.
- Interested in children as individuals, in how they learn and in a collaborative approach to learning.
- Experience with 3D printing, laser cutting, and other modern manufacturing techniques is desirable.
- Excellent classroom management and communication skills.
- Hold an Enhanced DBS registered to the update service or be happy to apply for a new one.
Please be advised that this role requires a strong knowledge and understanding of safeguarding and child protection and that successful applicants must satisfy all background safer recruitment checks including an enhanced DBS on the update service.
For more information, or to apply for the role of Product Design Teacher in York, North Yorkshire, please call Kerry Fowler at GSL Education. Alternatively, please visit the GSL Education official website to apply online.