Teacher of Gastronomy (Food Technology): Maternity Cover 1 Year
Oasis Academy South Bank, London, SE1 7HS11 days remaining to apply
Job start date
5 January 2026
Closing date
3 October 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
22 September 2025
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Subject
- Food technology
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- MPS or Upper Scale- Teachers Pension Scheme
Teacher of Gastronomy (Food Technology): Maternity Cover 1 Year job summary
We are looking for a dedicated and passionate Teacher of Gastronomy (Food Technology) of to join our team!
Our Academy opened in September 2013 with 120 students in Year 7 and has grown year on year with our Sixth Form opening in September 2018.
Through love, nurture and a rigorous academic focus, our vision is to support every child and help them to achieve their full potential, becoming model citizens and future leaders. All students are welcome with us, regardless of starting point, need or complexity. We are totally inclusive and believe that all students here will ‘Climb the STAIRS to Greatness’ and reach our two end goals of getting their dream job and becoming a model citizen. We are unapologetically ambitious for all our students. We put in place support and stilts to help every student meet our high expectations rather than ever lowering the bar.
This is an exciting time to join of a well-established and successful department. We strongly believe an excellent food and nutrition education should be an experience for the many, not the few. We believe all pupils, with the right role models, expectations and teaching can learn to love and excel in cooking and theory work. With these beliefs, we have been successful at building our Gastronomy curriculum, GCSE take up and extra-curricular offering. This role is an exciting opportunity to join our team. It will require huge amounts of perseverance and a constant drive for innovative excellence. However, this role will also be incredibly rewarding and could offer exciting progression for the future. This role also comes with the opportunity for the right candidate to take on department leadership, working to share and develop best practice in this area.
We are incredibly proud of everything we have achieved in the last eleven years: our dedicated, compassionate, and hardworking staff team; our great outcomes and exciting destinations and most of all, the kind, well-rounded young people leaving us who go on to thrive in purposeful and challenging further education. We look forward to hearing from you if you think you the right person to join our team.
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.
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- School type
- Free School, ages 11 to 19
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 709 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Oasis Academy South Bank website
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