Teacher of Food Technology
The Bishop of Winchester Academy, Bournemouth, Dorset, BH8 9PW14 days remaining to apply
Closing date
23 January 2025 at 8am
Date listed
8 January 2025
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
- Mainscale / UPS
Teacher of Food Technology job summary
We can offer you the opportunity to deliver theory and practical lessons where you will inspire students to appreciate nutrition and culinary techniques that cover a range of food technology topics and concepts. Whatever your career stage, you will be supported to develop further knowledge and to enhance your teaching tool kit, so that our students are able to excel in all aspects of their educational journey. We welcome applications from all teachers including ECTs. So, whether you are looking to reinvigorate your engagement with the profession, or you are new to teaching and want to develop your talent, this is the ideal role and environment for you.
As a standalone academy, we believe in our teachers being able to do the role they are employed to do, which is to deliver engaging lessons to our students. We therefore have an easy and structured behaviour system for our students and you to follow in lessons. After this, we have dedicated teams who intervene and leave you to continue with the job you love doing!
Our Head of Expressive Arts would be delighted to take you on a tour of the school and give you the opportunity to meet the department and answer any questions you may have.
As Teacher of Food Technology, you will be welcomed into an experienced team of creative professionals to:
- Play a fundamental role in progressing the Expressive Arts department to the next stage in its development and even greater success
- Plan and deliver high quality and engaging lessons that will challenge students and inspire progression
- Encourage our students to have high expectations of themselves and their behaviour
- Engage students in study at GCSE
- Be a positive role model and supportive mentor to students, making a lasting impact on their lives
- Desirable – to have experience or could teach Health and Social Care and Childcare
The Bishop of Winchester Academy is a thriving Church of England school, recently recognised by Ofsted as prioritising ‘wider opportunities alongside achievement so that pupils “live life to the full.”’ (Ofsted 2023). Operating from recently refurbished facilities, our shared mission to improve the life chances of all of our students is at the very centre of our work.
We put the welfare of our staff at the heart of everything we do and can offer you:
- Generous employer pension contribution at 28.6% basic salary
- Early Friday finish at 1:00pm
- Supportive and practical marking policy
- Career development with a bespoke CPD programme
- Excellent newly refurbished teaching facilities with free onsite parking and good local public transport links
- Employee Assistance Programme and Cycle to Work scheme
- Close proximity to beaches and the Jurassic Coast to assist your work life balance
The Bishop of Winchester Academy is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all suitably qualified candidates. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS check is required for all successful applicants.
Please be aware that due to the ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ legislation we do not accept CV’s.
We reserve the right to close a vacancy earlier than an advertised date if we have received applications that meet the criteria.
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 The Bishop of Winchester Academy
- School type
- Academy, Church of England, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1148 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
The Bishop of Winchester Academy is a thriving Church of England school, commended by Ofsted for its ‘inclusive approach, which seeks to support all pupils’. Led by a dedicated team with ‘strong moral and ethical foundation[s]’, our shared mission for ‘improving the life chances of all [our] pupils is at the very centre of [our] work’ (Ofsted, 2017).
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