Food Technician

Watling Academy, Milton Keynes, MK8 1EP

12 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  September 2024

• Closing date

  29 July 2024 at 9am

• Date listed

  15 July 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £23,893.00 - £26,421.00 Annually (FTE) £20,956 - £23,173 actual salary

Food Technician job summary

FOOD TECHNICIAN

Salary: £23,893 - £26,421 FTE

Actual Salary: £20,956 - £23,173

37.5 hour per week

Term Time + 5 days (39 weeks per year)

Monday to Friday, 8:15am – 4:15pm

Commencing – September 2024

Are you passionate about food and nutrition?

Can you support the next generation of chefs and food scientists?

Watling Academy is looking for an enthusiastic Food Technician to join our team from September 2024. The successful candidate will be integral to our Food and Nutrition department, ensuring that teachers and students have the materials and resources they need for a dynamic learning experience.

Your responsibilities will include preparing materials and learning resources for lessons, maintaining and updating displays throughout the Academy, and providing in-class support for teachers and students as required. You'll also monitor and manage stock levels, ensuring that consumable materials are replenished in a timely manner, and conduct regular safety checks on departmental equipment.

Watling Academy was judged as ‘Outstanding’ by OFSTED in May 2023 and is a purpose-built 11-18 secondary school in its fourth year of operation, located within the Whitehouse development on the western expansion area of Milton Keynes. The Academy will have 1800 students when at full capacity. Watling Academy is part of the Denbigh Alliance MAT.

The Denbigh Alliance has a track record of delivering academic success in subjects which offer students a real currency to progress into higher education or employment. We consistently outperform the Milton Keynes and national averages in terms of the results our students achieve. This academic success is built on the supportive, well-disciplined and dynamic learning environment we provide, which enables our students to focus on their studies. We believe that for a School to succeed there needs to be a genuine spirit of partnership between students, the Schoolandparents.

We are a Maths Hub, Computing Hub and SCITT and amongst the best in the country in terms ofraising standards, both within our Trust and in the schools that we support.

If you are interested in joining our team, please visit our website, www.watlingacademy.net, for more information about the school.

Applications will only be accepted via My New Term - please do not send CVs.

The Denbigh Alliance is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS check is required for all successful applicants.

E-mail: hr@thedenbighalliance.org.uk

Headteacher: Mr I Bacon

Closing date for applications: Monday 29th July 2024, 9am

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

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About Watling Academy

• School type: Free School, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1203 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Watling Academy website (opens in new tab)
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/watling-academy (opens in new tab)

Watling Academy is a purpose-built secondary school in its second year of operation, located within the Whitehouse development on the western expansion area of Milton Keynes. The Academy will have 1800 students when at full capacity. Watling Academy is part of the Denbigh Alliance MAT.

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