Food and Learning Environment Technician

Boston Spa Academy, Wetherby, West Yorkshire, LS23 6RW

12 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  17 September 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  5 September 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Subject: Food technology
• Working pattern: Full time: 37 hours per week, term time only + 1 working week
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: B1 (SCP 4-6) £25,185-£25,989 Actual Salary: £21,661-£22,353

What skills and experience we're looking for

Boston Spa Academy is seeking to recruit an inspirational colleague to the role of Food and Learning Environment Technician to provide support to our Design Technology department. This will include supporting in Food Technology, Textiles and other areas of Design Technology. In addition to this, the successful applicant will assist in creating and maintaining in-school displays around the academy for other subject departments.

Potential applicants should have:

• GCSE or equivalent in a Food Technology subject or similar.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills.
• Good time management skills, including the ability to work to deadlines.

What the school offers its staff

As a trust, we want to ensure that professionals at every stage in their career have the opportunity to enjoy expert support and training. We are pleased to offer a generous benefits package to our team – as we work together to create a rewarding future for all including:

• Membership of a teacher or local government pension scheme, depending on the role.
• A commitment to continued investment in our professionals, supporting every member of staff throughout their career in the trust.
• Access to an Employee Assistance Programme which provides confidential professional advice and support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
• Discounts and online offers at major high street/online retailers.
• £2k Cycle to work scheme.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to full employment checks, including an enhanced DBS disclosure and barring service check. We promote diversity and aim to establish a workforce that reflects the population of Leeds.

Applying for the job

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About Boston Spa Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1456 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Boston Spa Academy website
• Email address: susie.dubber@bostonspa.leeds.sch.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/boston-spa-academy

Working in partnership with The GORSE Academies Trust, Boston Spa Academy is a vibrant and successful and school, achieving excellent results and judged to be a Good School in the OFSTED inspection of April 2015.
Located between York, Leeds and Harrogate, Boston Spa Academy is committed to the development of the whole student, the physical, aesthetic, emotional, moral, spiritual as well as the intellectual.

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