Food Technician

Ponteland High School, Ponteland, Northumberland, NE20 9EG

12 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2026

• Closing date

  16 June 2026 at 3pm

• Date listed

  4 June 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Subject: Food technology
• Working pattern: Part time: 30 hours over 4 days.
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £25,583

What skills and experience we're looking for

Are you passionate about food, nutrition and practical learning? Do you enjoy working in a fast-paced environment and supporting young people as they develop valuable life skills in the kitchen?

Support the Next Generation of Chefs: Become a School Food Technician.

We are looking to appoint aFood Technicianto support the Design & Technology department. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone with a passion for food and organisation to play a key role in supporting practical food lessons. Opportunities may includeshort-term, long-term or ongoing placementsdepending on the needs of the school.

About the Role

As aFood Technician, you will support the delivery of Food Technology lessons by ensuring practical sessions run smoothly and safely. You will play an important role behind the scenes, preparing ingredients, organising equipment and helping maintain a safe learning environment for students.

Working closely with the class teacher, you will help students gain hands-on experience in cooking and food preparation while ensuring all practical activities are carried out safely and efficiently.

Responsibilities may include:

• Preparing ingredients, equipment and resources for practical food lessons
• Supporting teachers and students during practical cooking sessions
• Maintaining a safe and hygienic food preparation environment
• Monitoring stock levels and ordering ingredients and supplies when required
• Cleaning and maintaining kitchen equipment and workspaces after lessons
• Ensuring health and safety procedures and food hygiene standards are followed at all times

What the school offers its staff

Ponteland High School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and expect all staff to share this commitment. The appointment of any successful applicant will depend upon receipt of an ENHANCED DBS check and health screening.

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

Pele Trust is strongly committed to safeguarding. The successful applicant will be required to obtain an Enhanced DBS and a range of other recruitment checks.

In accordance with Department for Education’s Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance, as part of the recruitment process we will undertake an online search of publicly available information of shortlisted candidates. This search will be undertaken by someone who is not part of the decision making process, and after the shortlisting stage, any relevant incidents or issues that have happened, and are publicly available online, may be explored at interview.

Applying for the job

This job requires you to download an application form, you will be able to upload the application once complete.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

Additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

Design-Technology_Art-and-Food-Technology-Technician-JD_PS-Band-3.pdf - 143 KB (opens in new tab)

About Ponteland High School

• School type: Academies, Does not apply, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 1543 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Ponteland High School website
• Email address: c.barker@ponthigh.org.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/ponteland-high-school

Welcome to Ponteland High School: our overriding aim is to build a school where all of our students are happy, feel safe and achieve exceptionally well.

We are delighted to have converted to an 11-18 secondary school in September 2019 and moved into our state of the art building in November 2020. We know that our students benefit greatly from being within our school from Year 7 and this will support them, in achieving exceptionally well as they progress to GCSE and beyond.

Arranging a visit to Ponteland High School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email c.barker@ponthigh.org.uk.

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