Food Technician

Pinner High School, Pinner, Middlesex, HA5 1NB

24 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  May 2026

• Closing date

  13 April 2026 at 1pm

• Date listed

  20 March 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time, full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £29,025.00 Annually (FTE) Minimum of 19 hours; working days and times negotiable but must include an 8.15am start. 39 weeks per year (term time plus one week)
• Additional allowances:

  Minimum of 19 hours; working days and times negotiable but must include an 8.15am start. 39 weeks per year (term time plus one week)

Food Technician job summary

As a Food Technician, you will play a vital role in supporting high-quality teaching and learning by ensuring practical lessons run smoothly and safely. You will work closely with teaching staff to prepare ingredients, maintain equipment, and create an engaging learning environment for students.

Key responsibilities will include to prepare ingredients, equipment, and materials for practical food lessons, maintain a clean, safe, and well-organised kitchen environment in line with health and safety regulations, assist teachers during practical sessions when required, monitor stock levels and equipment ( ensuring all equipment is cleaned, stored, and maintained appropriately), support displays and contribute to a positive learning environment

We are looking for candidates who have good organisational skills and attention to detail, an understanding of food hygiene and kitchen safety standards, the ability to work independently and as part of a team, strong communication and time management skills and a passion for supporting young people’s learning. Desirable (but not essential) experience would include previous work in a school or catering environment and a food hygiene certificate.

In return you will have access to excellent support and training, professional growth opportunities, generous pension, on site gym and extended break at Christmas.

Join us and help bring food education to life for our students!

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.

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Commitment to safeguarding

Pinner High School and Harrow Academies Trust are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of students. Successful applicants will be required to undergo an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.

All staff employed by the Trust are required to be fully aware of and understand the duties and responsibilities arising from the Children’s Act and associated Government guidance in relation to child protection and safeguarding young people.

Behaviors should reflect and model the ethos and values of the Trust. All staff must respect the confidentiality of information relating to students, their families, and staff.

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.

About Pinner High School

• School type: Free School, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 1135 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Pinner High School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/pinner-high-school

Pinner High School opened in September 2016 with 150 Year 7 students. We will admit 180 Year 7 students each year; so having 900 Year 7 – Year 11 students. Our onsite sixth form is now open with a full complement of year groups. Alongside this, there are 12 additional places for students with Autistic Spectrum Disorder. Pinner High School is located on Beaulieu Drive, HA5 1NB.

Pinner High School is part of The Harrow Academies Trust, a multi-academy trust established by the seven secular high school academies within Harrow. Our high schools, together with Whitmore High School (which is a community school maintained by Harrow Council), have a strong track record of collaboration, including establishing Sixth Forms, the age-of-transfer that saw Year 7 join high school (instead of middle school), academy conversion in 2011, and establishing The Jubilee Academy (an alternative provision free school) in 2013.

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