Food and Nutrition Technician
Cheadle Hulme High School, Cheadle, Cheshire, SK8 7JY13 days remaining to apply
Job start date
5 January 2027
Closing date
23 November 2026 at 9am
Date listed
10 November 2026
Job details
Job role
- Other support role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subject
- Food technology
Working pattern
- Part time, full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full time equivalent salary
- £14.14 per hour
Food and Nutrition Technician job summary
Are you organised, proactive and passionate about supporting students to develop practical life skills?
We are seeking a dedicated Food Preparation Technician to provide vital support to our successful Food Preparation & Nutrition department, helping to create an engaging and safe learning environment for students.
As a key member of the team, you will be responsible for preparing ingredients and equipment for lessons, maintaining stock levels, ensuring high standards of cleanliness and hygiene, and supporting the smooth day-to-day running of the department. This is an excellent opportunity for someone with experience of food preparation and handling who enjoys working in a busy educational setting.If you would like to join our Laurus family in a rewarding role that changes the lives of our pupils by empowering them to become the best that they can be then we would love to hear from you.
This position is contracted on a 10 hours per week, term-time only basis. We are seeking a candidate who can work 10 hours per week across 4 or 5 days, although we are happy to consider flexible working patterns for the successful applicant. If you are only available on certain days or at specific times, please provide details within your application. There may also be opportunities for additional hours in the future, subject to recruitment needs across the Trust, and applicants are encouraged to indicate whether they would be interested in increasing their hours should such opportunities arise.
If you wish to be considered for flexibility on hours, please state your preferred working days and hours in the Additional Questions section of the application form.
Job Purpose
- To provide an efficient and effective Food technician support service to the Technology department.
Key Skills & Experience
- Sound educational background including GCSE’s in Maths and English (A*-C) or equivalent.
- Experience of preparing food.
- Experience of working in a food handling environment.
To learn more about what the Trust offer, including our wide range of employee benefits and access to further professional learning, visit our Careers page. At the Laurus Trust, we value the significance of a healthy work/life balance for our employees. Achieving a better balance can boost motivation and morale, lower stress levels, enhance performance and productivity, and make job opportunities more inclusive. Whenever feasible, we are committed to offering flexible arrangements from the very start, which could include options like part-time roles, term-time working, Job-sharing and compressed hours.
Please note a full application must be submitted as CV’s will unfortunately not be accepted in line with our safer recruitment process.
We reserve the right to interview prior to the closing date.
Disability Confident Employer
We value diversity and are committed to equal opportunities. We are an inclusive employer and welcome all applications. Disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria on the person specification will be guaranteed an interview. If you require any reasonable adjustments for an interview, please highlight this to our Recruitment Team in advance.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
The Laurus Trust is an inclusive Equal Employment Opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We welcome and encourage applications from all individuals regardless of individual background or circumstance.
As a Disability Confident Committed Employer, we strongly encourage applications from all persons with a known disability, and we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants, that meet the minimum criteria for a role, will be offered an interview and given the opportunity to demonstrate their skills.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Cheadle Hulme High School
- Organisation type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- Size
- 1690 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
Cheadle Hulme High School (CHHS) is the founder school of the Laurus Trust. We are a hugely oversubscribed school with a reputation locally, and further afield, for outstanding teaching and learning through the relentless pursuit of excellence and a determination to ensure that every child succeeds. CHHS was judged Outstanding in every category by Ofsted in 2011 and 2015.
In the 2022 Progress 8 Headline measure, CHHS came in the top 20% of schools nationally with a figure of +0.5, compared to the national figure -0.03. Overall, 85% of our students were awarded a grade 4 or higher in English and Maths, and 67% a grade 5 or higher. Plus, an impressive 44% of all grades were at 7-9 and 96 students achieved 5 or more grades at 7+.
In 2022 the progress of our disadvantaged students was Progress 8 +0.3, the national figure is -0.55. Our disadvantaged students make more progress than their non- disadvantaged peers nationally.
In 2022, 87% of students progressed to university with 65% studying at one of the prestigious Russell group universities. 78% of students went to their first choice university. In addition, 5 students have taken up Degree Apprenticeships.
We are delighted that CHHS is regularly named as one of the UK’s top-performing schools in The Sunday Times annual Parent Power Surveys.
CHHS became an 11-18 school in September 2013, with approximately 1664 students on roll. Our dedicated Sixth Form Centre opened in September 2014. We are the founder school of a Multi-Academy Trust (MAT) with an outstanding academic record.
CHHS has a strong commitment to continued professional development of all staff. The professional learning opportunities in school and beyond enable staff to engage in various internal communities of professional development. There is support given to staff who are undertaking ECT, Masters, CTeach and NPQ programmes. Many of our staff have also joined other external subject networks and professional development, such as Doctor of Education programmes.
Cheadle Hulme is a pleasant residential suburb on the south western edge of the Borough of Stockport and about eleven miles south of the centre of Manchester. The location enjoys the advantages of proximity to the open countryside of Cheshire and the Peak District and the cultural and sporting activities of a major city.
If you want to work in a highly ambitious and successful school, in a great location, and believe you have the vision and commitment to join our team, then we would love to hear from you.
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