Salary: £40k FTE (pro-rata)
Contract: One-Year Fixed Term, with a flexible start date
Hours: This is a flexible role with hours dependent on the individual’s response to our ambitions
Putney High School is seeking a Maker in Residence to play a pivotal role in advancing the school’s vision for a future-focused, interdisciplinary creative faculty. This exciting position is designed to enrich the student experience by embedding real-world design practice into everyday learning, enabling pupils to develop as confident, independent makers with a strong sense of their own creative identity.
Working across all key stages, the Maker in Residence will broaden access to design and making beyond option subjects, ensuring that all pupils benefit from engaging, hands-on creative experiences. Through curriculum projects, workshops, clubs and our newly formed Artemis programme, the successful candidate will extend opportunities for creative exploration across the school while supporting students in producing ambitious, high-quality portfolios that prepare them for future pathways in art, design and creative technology.
The successful candidate will work collaboratively with staff and students to foster innovation, strengthen interdisciplinary practice and support the faculty’s strategic priorities. They will be responsible for developing and delivering engaging creative experiences, contributing to staff upskilling through shared practice and helping to create a lasting legacy through exhibitions, skills development initiatives and enduring resources.
We are seeking an imaginative and skilled practitioner with a passion for creative education, excellent communication skills and the ability to inspire young people. A commitment to collaboration, innovation and making is essential, as is the enthusiasm to help establish a distinctive “Made in Putney” culture and further position Putney High School as a leader in contemporary creative education.
About the School
As one of the UK’s leading schools, Putney High School is rightly proud of its exceptional academic results and pastoral care. A spirit of intellectual agility and engagement is at the heart of the school’s ethos, with pupils stretched, challenged, and supported inside the classroom and beyond.
The school is set in leafy, tranquil grounds close to the heart of Putney and to the River Thames.
The school is part of the GDST, the UK’s leading network of independent girls’ schools. We can offer a variety of benefits, such as:
• Competitive salaries and pay progression
• Competitive terms and conditions of employment
• Generous pension scheme
• Free life assurance benefit
• A discount of up to 50% on fees for children at GDST schools
• Access to extensive professional development opportunities
• Training grants for qualifications
• Interest free loans for training, computer purchase loans and season ticket loans
• A Cycle to Work scheme
• Retail and lifestyle discounts
• Financial guidance and support
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme
For further about the school, role and person, please refer to the Candidate Brief.
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Applications must be received by Monday 29th June 2026 at 9am.
Interview date: Tuesday 7th July 2026.
Putney High School and the GDST are committed to diversity, inclusion and real change: a family where every individual is valued, respected and included.
Putney High School and the GDST are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including online checks, checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.