Curriculum Expert Food Technology

Hours: 32.5 

Contract Type: Permanent

Ninestiles, an Academy

Hartfield Crescent

Birmingham

B27 7QL

Start Date: 1 January 2025

Are you an experienced Teacher of Food Technology with outstanding outcomes looking for a new challenge within an exciting, innovative and supportive academy?

Would you like to be part of a Trust where your skills and expertise can be shared across our family of educational establishments? Do you seek a post with amazing opportunities to share your passion for Food Technology, within an environment where you will be valued and supported?

Join us and you will be part of a dynamic, enthusiastic and committed Art, Food and Design Technology Team.

You will support the Head of Faculty in shaping the direction and development of the subject, with specific responsibilty for developing and managing the curriculum for Food Technology. The post holder will assist with managing colleagues, the effective, safe and efficient deployment of resources and securing and sustaining high quality teaching and learning in the subject; all leading to aspirational and successful outcomes for Ninestiles learners. To facilitate the smooth running of the faculty, a small number of KS3 art and DT lessons may be included on the timetable of this post.

We believe in working collaboratively, sharing ideas and supporting each other to achieve great things as we further develop innovative teaching and learning strategies. The successful candidate will have a keen interest in innovative teaching strategies and commitment to further developing their leadership skills and will have the ability to inspire learners to achieve excellent results.

The role offers excellent opportunities for a well-qualified, creative specialist who will build on the success of the department and who is willing to commit to extra-curricular activities that add value to the academy and community.

Flexible working requests are welcome. Part-time working hours will be considered for experienced colleagues as the Trust seeks to promote flexible working options to support a work-life balance.

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 academy and are proud to be part of it.

Ninestiles has a very reflective teaching body who welcome feedback from parents and students 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 has the vision, drive and support to lead the academy on a journey of excellence, with colleagues that have a passion for teaching and learning.

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

This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to all necessary pre-employment checks, including: an 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. 

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.

This post is not part of the City Council and the successful candidate will not hold a Birmingham City Council Contract of Employment. Please use the contact details in the advert for information on actual employment conditions.

Rehabilitation of offenders: 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.

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

Closing Date: 3 December 2024, 4:00pm

How to Apply:

Please visit our website at https://summitlearningtrust.org.uk/careers-vacancies/

For a full description of the role and person specification, please visit our website at https://summitlearningtrust.org.uk/careers-vacancies/

About the Trust
https://www.summitlearningtrust.org.uk/

Online searches of shortlisted candidates will also be conducted. Our Policy is available to view here https://summitlearningtrust.org.uk/