Teacher of Food
Kingsdown School, Swindon, SN2 7SH8 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
1 October 2026 at 9am
Date listed
23 September 2026
Job details
Job role
- Teacher or lecturer
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subject
- Food technology
Working pattern
- Part time, full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full time equivalent salary
- £32,916.00 - £51,048.00 Annually (FTE) Teacher Pay Scale (pay award pending)
Teacher of Food job summary
Start date: As soon as possible
Closing date: Thursday 1st October, 9.00am
Shortlisting date: Thursday 1st October
Interview date: Wednesday 7th October
Contract: Permanent
Working hours: Full time or part time considered
Salary Range: Main Scale/UP Scale
You will guide students through the essentials of practical cookery, nutrition, and food preparation in a structured secondary environment. Your work will ensure food technology lessons remain a highlighted, enjoyable part of the timetable where pupils build confidence and practical capability. Joined with a supportive faculty, you will help shape a curriculum that balances creative practical work with clear, manageable classroom routines.
What You’ll Bring
Subject Knowledge: Strong understanding of the Food Preparation and Nutrition curriculum and practical classroom delivery.
Classroom Management: The ability to run safe, orderly, and enjoyable practical cookery sessions.
Collaborative Mindset: A desire to work closely with colleagues across the Design and Technology faculty to refine shared schemes of work.
The "Why Us" Difference
Workload-Sensitive Culture: We focus on feedback that directly benefits student progress rather than admin-heavy, performative marking.
Professional Agency: You are trusted as the classroom expert to adapt your teaching to the needs of your students without micromanagement.
Shared Growth: Access to structured CPLD and developmental coaching pathways across our network of schools.
For more details, please see the Job Description below. If you would like to know more about this opportunity please contact recruitment@kingsdownschool.co.uk
This role includes regulated activity relevant to children.
River Learning Trust and Kingsdown School are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and preventing extremism. We are an exempt employer under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act.
We actively value the "different contributions" you can make. We want you to be at your best during the application process; if you require any reasonable adjustments, please let us know.
Note: We do not accept CVs; please apply via My New Term. We reserve the right to interview and appoint exceptional candidates early.
Kingsdown School and the River Learning Trust
By joining our Kingsdown family you will join a team who genuinely cares and champions each and every student and each and every member of the Kingsdown team.
At Kingsdown, we know that staff and students thrive in a ‘healthy work culture’ and the wellbeing of staff and student outcomes is inextricably linked. We are committed to providing the best working and learning environment for all. The RLT has a staff charter and strong values, we uphold these values and commitments, and further build on these with our Wellbeing Strategy.
One of the core values of the RLT is that ‘everyone is learning’ and at Kingsdown we ensure each person has the personalised CPLD that they deserve. We do this through a variety of programmes that allows all staff to take a lead on their own professional development, with the support of colleagues within the school. We are also very excited to be launching our coaching model this year, to allow staff the opportunity to be coached and develop their teaching practice further, whatever stage of their career they are in. High quality CPLD and training are an integral part of our meeting schedule and time is given to curriculum teams to collaborate and learn from each other. Alongside this we have a personalised induction programme that allows for new staff members to join us feeling supported and welcomed from day one.
Education has the power to change lives, communities and society for the better. At RLT we believe that we can achieve more for our pupils, trainees, staff and communities by working together rather than alone. Schools in RLT are united by a common belief in the benefits of working together, and by our commitment to shared principles.
OUR VISION is for our schools and SCITT to improve rapidly, continuously and sustainably: to be better faster together.
OUR ‘WHY?’ is that children and young people ‘only get one go’ in school and therefore as part of RLT we aim to ensure the best possible ‘go’ for our pupils.
OUR ‘HOW?’ is through the highest support and challenge for our schools and each other, underpinned by our principles.
Our employees benefit from a wide variety of support including extensive continuing professional learning and development opportunities, wellbeing and staff networks and access to Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (TPS and LGPS) for all staff. For more information on what it is like to work for the Trust, and the benefits you could access, please see our “Working in RLT” guide.
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
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Kingsdown School
- Organisation type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- Size
- 1108 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- Website
- Kingsdown School website
Kingsdown is a mixed 11–16 Secondary School located in Stratton St Margaret, Swindon. It offers a vibrant learning environment, one in which its students take great pride in both their learning, their behaviour and their individual aspirations. Our teachers combine a high level of academic expertise with excellent teaching skills and a real and deep concern for the wellbeing of each and every student. Taken together, these allow us to recruit and retain the very best teachers.
Thank you for taking an interest in working with us at Kingsdown School. You are joining us at a very exciting time in our school’s history. At the end of January 2020, we had a two day Ofsted Inspection and were judged to be Good in all five categories under the new framework. This marked the end to over a decade of being judged Requires Improvement.
Kingsdown is a school that has been on a transformational journey. We had a two year P8 trend of -0.50 and this year we secured a P8 score of +0.04. We have also recently been shortlisted for the TES Secondary School of the Year award. Along with the Ofsted judgement, this transformation is truly wonderful for our students, our school and community. Now we are looking for talented and experienced colleagues to join our team as we journey to Outstanding.
Our vision for our school is “a school of excellence bursting with pride and ambition” and our mission statement is that we “champion each and every student”.
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