Teacher of Design Technology/Food Science - Temporary 0.5FTE

Silverdale School, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S11 9QH

10 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  13 April 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  24 March 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
  • Suitable for early career teachers
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4
• Subjects: Design and technology, Food technology
• Working pattern: Part time: 0.5FTE
• Contract type: Fixed term - 1 year
• Pay scale: M1 to UPS3

What skills and experience we're looking for

Required for September 2025, an enthusiastic and qualified Design Technology/Food teacher. This is an exciting opportunity to join a dedicated and highly successful team and would suit a newly qualified or experienced teacher. The candidate will be required to teach Key Stage 3 and 4 Design Technology, Hospitality and Catering and Food Preparation and Nutrition.

Benefits include:

• CPD support from one of the largest Teaching Schools, the Sheffield Teacher Training Alliance, throughout your career.
• Opportunities to develop skills and experience as part of a growing, local Trust.

Chorus Education Trust is proud to support flexible working arrangements.

What the school offers its staff

Silverdale School is an extremely popular and high achieving 11-18 comprehensive inthe south west of Sheffield and is the founding school of Chorus Education Trust. Silverdale has 1,450 students on roll including 450 in Silverdale Sixth Form. In 2020 it was named the Sunday Times Top State Secondary School in the North of the Decade, in recognition of its sustained success.

Silverdale has an excellent record of student achievement at both key stage 4 and key stage 5. At our heart is one of the country’s original teaching school hubs, the South Yorkshire Teaching Hub, which includes the Sheffield Teacher Training Alliance and National Modern Languages SCITT.

At Silverdale, we benefit from a new building with excellent facilities, which was expanded in 2023 to provide further state of the art teaching facilities and a dedicated Sixth Form centre.

In addition to trust-wide benefits for all staff, those at Silverdale School also have access to:

• Supportive and friendly staff and leadership team.
• Free staff parking.
• Opportunity to be part of the varied extracurricular offering, including Duke of Edinburgh’s Award programme.

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

Apply for the job by following the link below.

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Visas cannot be sponsored.

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Additional documents

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

Chorus Trust Application Form - Part B - May 2023.docx - 29 KB (opens in new tab)

Chorus Trust Application Form - Part A - May 2023.docx - 809 KB (opens in new tab)

Applicant Pack - Teacher of DT Sept 25.pdf - 751 KB (opens in new tab)

About Silverdale School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1466 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Silverdale School website
• Email address: kbeasley@chorustrust.org
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/silverdale-school-sheffield

Silverdale School is an extremely popular and high-achieving 11-18 comprehensive in the south west of Sheffield and is now the founding school of Chorus Education Trust. The school achieved the best GCSE results in 2018 of any state school in Sheffield. At Post 16 the progress students make places Silverdale in the top 10% of schools nationally. At its heart is one of the country’s largest Teaching Schools, the Sheffield Teaching School Alliance. Silverdale moved into a brand new building in January 2009 with a full complement of facilities. Silverdale School is part of Chorus Education Trust, and as such all appointees may be required to work at any Trust site in the future.

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