Teacher of Food
Lavington School, Devizes, Wiltshire, SN10 4EBDeadline is tomorrow
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
31 May 2025 at 9am
Date listed
20 May 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subjects
- Food Technology, Hospitality & Catering
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £31,650.00 - £49,084.00 Annually (FTE)
Teacher of Food job summary
We are seeking to appoint an excellent Teacher of Food, who is passionate about promoting a love for food to students inside and outside of the classroom, and across our whole community. This is a great opportunity for an established classroom practitioner or an ECT. You will be joining a committed team of DT staff, who share their passion and skills with students at all levels of ability and understanding. You will be an excellent classroom practitioner, with a love of food and creative ideas for developing pedagogy and inspiring pupils. You will be expected to teach across KS3 and KS4. The role may also include acting as a form tutor.
The successful candidate will be given every opportunity to develop good practice, share teaching and learning ideas and collaborate with individuals and the whole department.
This role will involve contact with children and the post holder will be engaged in regulated activity relevant to children and will be subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check before appointment is confirmed. We will only submit a DBS application to the relevant disclosure service when a position is accepted.
This Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We follow Safer Recruitment procedures and all interviews, regardless of role, will include questions about approaches to safeguarding. Our Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy is available on our website and follows all guidance in the most recent Keeping Children Safe in Education.
All posts involving direct contact with children are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. However, amendments to the Exception Order 1975 (2013 & 2020) provide that certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’. These are not subject to disclosure to employers and cannot be taken into account. Guidance and criteria on the filtering of these cautions and convictions can be found on the Ministry of Justice website.
Please note that by submitting an application, you acknowledge that we reserve the right to view any publicly available information published online (including social media platforms) as part of our shortlisting process, in line with current KCSIE guidelines.
Commitment to safeguarding
Lavington School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare and well-being of its students and expects all staff and volunteers to share this committment.
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 Lavington School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 886 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Lavington School website
Lavington School is a mixed comprehensive school and currently has 965 students on roll, aged 11 to 18. It is situated on the western edge of the village of Market Lavington, about six miles south of Devizes, in the heart of rural Wiltshire. Numbers on roll have grown over the years with the school being over-subscribed. In 2018 the school opened its Sixth Form as a satellite centre of Devizes School.
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