Teacher of Design - (specialising in Food & Nutrition)
Admiral Lord Nelson School, Portsmouth, Hampshire, PO3 5XT19 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2026
Closing date
31 March 2026 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
10 March 2026
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Subject
- Art and design
Working pattern
- Full time: Full time working hours
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £32,916 - £51,048
What skills and experience we're looking for
Design is a well-regarded subject area at Admiral Lord Nelson School, with students achieving strong outcomes while enjoying a rich and engaging curriculum that prepares them for their future lives. The department is housed across six specialist teaching rooms, including two well-equipped Food Technology classrooms, enabling the delivery of a diverse and exciting curriculum. Students in Years 7 and 8 follow a carousel programme that includes Art, Textiles, 3D Design and Food. In Year 9 students follow a department option system which allows them to take part in Food & Nutrition lessons alongside two other Design subjects of their choice.
At KS4, Design continues to be a popular option choice, and students can choose from Fine Art, Textiles, 3D Design, Photography, and Food & Nutrition. It is a department which is well-led by a supportive Curriculum Director and supported by an excellent team of teachers and technicians. You will be joining a well-established, Design department and become part of an innovative team of teachers who enjoy working together.
We are passionate about ensuring every student experiences Food Technology at KS3, and GCSE Food Preparation and Nutrition continues to be a consistently popular option choice. The successful candidate will work alongside our experienced Second in Department who is a highly skilled and supportive Food Technology specialist. This post is therefore well suited to an ECT or a more experienced practitioner. You will join a dedicated team of Design teachers and technicians who are committed to delivering a challenging and inspiring curriculum.
Collaboration and the sharing of good practice are central to our school culture. Our professional learning programme provides meaningful opportunities to reflect on and develop excellent teaching and learning. We pride ourselves on supporting teachers at every stage of their career to become the very best they can be. ECTs will benefit from a comprehensive induction programme and ongoing professional development. For colleagues seeking the next step in their career, we are committed to investing in your development and supporting progression into middle or senior leadership roles.
What the school offers its staff
Admiral Lord Nelson has a proven track record for providing a route into teaching for those with suitable skills and qualifications. We are fully committed to training and developing successful candidates and welcome applications from those with or without prior experience.
In June 2022, OFSTED agreed the school continues to be a good school, the inspectors were incredibly impressed with the high quality of both our safeguarding, and our extensive curriculum offer here, both in academic lessons and beyond lessons in our personal development curriculum. We were thrilled to see how much the inspectors valued our inclusive approach to education and our commitment to being ambitious for every child, ensuring that they are well supported to be successful in their learning at school and in their preparation for adulthood. In June 2019, our school won the highly prestigious TES Award for Creative School of the Year in recognition of our commitment to creativity across all aspects of our curriculum.
Salterns Academy Trust is a learning community where every member of staff understands the difference they can make to our students’ outcomes.
Further information about the job
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.
Applying for the job
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About Admiral Lord Nelson School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 1244 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Admiral Lord Nelson School website
- Email address
- r.alns@salterns.org
- Phone number
- 023 9236 4536
Always oversubscribed, we are expanding our school so that more local families can experience the excellent education offered here at Admiral Lord Nelson School for over two decades! Therefore, we are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic Science teacher who works well in a team. We are looking for a specialist with strong subject knowledge, who quickly builds relationships with students and breaks down barriers to learning. We want a teacher who inspires children to achieve their potential and loves to see their students experiencing the joy of success every day in their learning!
Salterns Academy Trust is a learning community where every member of staff understands the difference they can make to our students’ outcomes, both academically and to their personal development. Our commitment to being a UNICEF Rights Respecting School is at the heart of our inclusive ethos and curriculum, with mutually respectful relationships forming the foundation of our happy, successful school. At Admiral Lord Nelson School, we work collegiately with our partner school, Trafalgar School in the pursuit of excellence in Science education so that we are significantly improving the life chances of all of our young people in Portsmouth.
We have a national reputation for being a truly inclusive school with excellent standards and principled curriculum design, having a very high Ebacc entry. Our deep-rooted and longstanding commitment to being a UNICEF Rights Respecting School led to us being the only school invited to a garden party with all the Soccer Aid celebrities hosted by the Prime Minister at 10 Downing Street and we have recently been reaccredited with UNICEF RRS Gold Award status in recognition of our ambassadorial work. We are equally passionate about promoting creativity across all aspects of our curriculum, for which we were the first school in England to hold a Triple Artsmark Platinum Award and were designated the TES Creative School of the Year for 2019. This is a genuinely exciting school to be part of, morally driven by our core values of Inclusivity, Wellbeing and High Expectations; we really do value our staff and place the voice of our incredible students at the heart of all we do!
Arranging a visit to Admiral Lord Nelson School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email r.alns@salterns.org.
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