Teacher of Food Technology

Job start date: 1 January 2025  

Hours per week: Part time  

Ninestiles, an Academy
Hartfield Crescent
Birmingham
B27 7QL
Telephone number: 0121 628 1311

Contact email: recruitment@summitlearningtrust.org.uk

Contract type: Permanent

Summit Learning Trust Mission Statement

Success through Endeavour

Ambition through Challenge

Strength through Diversity

Are you an enthusiastic teacher looking for a new and exciting challenge?

An exciting opportunity has arisen within our academy for an enthusiastic and inspirational Teacher of Food Technology who will encourage and create a nurturing environment within which everyone can reach their full potential.

You should have experience of teaching Food Technology across the ability range for KS3 and KS4. The successful candidate will have the ability to inspire learners to achieve excellent results. Our friendly, thriving, and supportive team believe in working collaboratively, sharing ideas and supporting each other to achieve great things as we further develop innovative teaching and learning strategies. Ninestiles, an Academy is a developing and improving academy and this is an exciting opportunity to be a part of and support that journey.

This is a part time position and the postholder will need to be flexible in their working pattern to fit around academy timetabling requirements on an annual basis.

About our Academy:

The greatest strength of our academy is our learners who are often praised for their creativity, musical talents, artistic performances and the respect they have for one another. Learners generally understand the importance of learning, value their school and are proud to be part of it.

Ninestiles has a very reflective teaching colleagues who welcome feedback from parents, carers and learners to secure the needs of all learners. The academy has a wide and varied curriculum, learners have access to an impressive range of sporting and extracurricular activities with well over sixty enrichment opportunities offered after school. There is a strong culture of safeguarding and colleagues work positively with the leadership team to ensure learners are kept safe. The leadership team of Ninestiles is progressive and has the vision, drive and support to lead the school on a journey of excellence, with colleagues that have a passion for teaching and learning.

About the Trust

Why work for us?

We offer a range of wellbeing and work-life balance benefits to recognise and reward the essential contributions our colleagues make to our success and growth.

These include access to:

• employee assistance programme

• high quality training and support in and across academies enabling career progression

• wellbeing advocates

• lifestyle benefits and discount schemes, including gym discounts and cycle to work scheme

• health protection scheme alongside flu jab and eyecare vouchers

• generous employer pension schemes

We positively welcome applications from all sections of the community. Summit Learning Trust is proud to be an equal opportunities employer and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender reassignment, age, disability, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy/maternity or race. You can view our Safeguarding Policy

How to apply:

Please visit our website 

This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to all necessary pre-employment checks, including: enhanced DBS; Prohibition check; Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work.  

All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references.  

An online search will also be carried out as part of due diligence on all short-listed candidates.  

This post is not part of the City Council and the successful candidate will not hold a Birmingham City Council Contract of Employment.  

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. Which means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account.  

Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.