Teacher of Food and Nutrition
Northstowe Learning Community, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB24 1DJ5 days remaining to apply
Start date details
1st January 2025
Closing date
21 October 2024 at 8am
Date listed
8 October 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subjects
- Food Technology, Hospitality & Catering
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- MPS / UPS
Teacher of Food and Nutrition job summary
Salary: MPS / UPS depending on experience
Hours of work: Full-time (part-time applications will also be considered)
We have an exciting opportunity for a kind, curious and hardworking individual to join our teaching team as a Teacher of Food and Nutrition. You will deliver high quality lessons to students as part of our core and GCSE curriculum, as well as providing excellent pastoral support through our vertical tutoring programme.
Northstowe Secondary College was built in 2019 and is the cornerstone of the Northstowe Learning Community, an all-through school from 2024, catering for students aged 4-19. We are also lucky enough to have the Martin Bacon Academy, an area Special School, on our campus that also caters for children aged 4-19. Northstowe Secondary College opened to just 71 students but is now over-subscribed with students in Years 7-11. In September 2024, Northstowe Primary School opened with its first intake of Reception aged children and our Sixth Form Provision welcomed its first young adults into Year 12. The secondary school has grown year on year, and it will continue to grow until it reaches its full capacity of 1,800 places for students aged 11-16, with a further 400 places available for sixth form students.
You will be part of an experienced and growing team of teaching and support staff working to create an inclusive, innovative and aspirational learning environment for the young people and families within the community we serve.
The Opportunity
To join our established but growing team of teaching and support staff
To contribute to the educational outcomes of young people in our community
Collaboration and training opportunities within Meridian Trust
The ideal candidate will
Be a qualified teacher with a good track record
Be knowledgeable around child protection and safeguarding matters
Be a team player, with a ‘can do’ solution focused attitude
Possess outstanding communication skills and personal integrity
Benefits of working for us:
As a multi-academy trust of 31 schools, Meridian Trust can provide a wide network of opportunities for collaboration and career development for both teaching and support staff. With an initial teaching training facility and a teaching hub network within our Trust, there are ample opportunities to both, get into teaching, and develop within the profession.
As well as the above we also offer:
Unlimited access to CPD via Meridian Learning
Free annual eye tests
Access to a free Employee Assistance Programme, offering mental health and wellbeing support
Unlimited value cycle to work scheme
To see the full range of benefits available, please visit Employee Benefits - Meridian Trust
Meridian Trust is a successful multi-academy trust founded on its commitment to people and communities. Our proven approach over more than a decade has elevated us to a respected and admired academy trust, a national leader in education and a source of great pride to the communities we serve. The Trust currently operates 30 schools across Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Peterborough, Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire and has forged strong links within all these communities. We are committed to high quality professional development and career opportunities for all staff. To find out more about the Trust, please visit: www.meridiantrust.co.uk
How to apply:
Please submit an application form and a letter of application /supporting statement of at least 1 side of A4 (via the website) outlining why you would like to work for NLC. In line with safer recruitment practices, we are unable to accept CVs. If you have any questions about this process or would like to arrange a visit to the school, please contact Sarah Wakerley, HR Officer on recruitment@northstowesc.org
Closing date for applications is: Monday, 21st October 2024 (by 8am). However, early applications are encouraged, and candidates will be shortlisted for interview as they apply.
Interview to take place on: Tuesday, 22nd October 2024.
The Trust is committed to diversity and inclusion and equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.
The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All appointments will be subject to pre-employment checks, including an enhanced check with the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS), as well as online searches.
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
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About Northstowe Learning Community
- School type
- Academy, ages 4 to 19
- Education phase
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- School size
- 622 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 19
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Northstowe Learning Community website (opens in new tab)
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