Teacher of Food Technology

Hours: 32.5

Contract Type: Permanent

Saltley Academy

Belchers Lane

Bordesley Green

Birmingham

B9 5RX

Start Date: 20 February 2025

Are you passionate about your subject? Do you want a great place to work with a positive atmosphere with supportive colleagues and students keen to learn? If yes look no further…

Saltley Academy is looking to appoint an outstanding Teacher of Food technology, who is ready to make a significant impact on our successful department. The successful candidate will have excellent subject knowledge and be able to motivate pupils through inspirational teaching. They will be joining a very well‐led, vibrant and successful team, committed to providing a quality experience for our students and ensuring that they achieve their full potential. This is an excellent opportunity to become part of a school and an academy trust committed to individuals’ professional development and supporting them to achieve the best for our young people.

We are looking for an outstanding teacher with:

• ambition and high expectations to transform the lives of young people
• experience in delivering the GCSE curriculum for Food and Nutrition (or similar)
• a passionate belief in collaboration and teamwork;
• a student‐centred approach to problem solving;
• a clear understanding of how to engage students and maximise progress;
• a sense of humour and positivity;
• a relentless commitment to achievement for all
• commitment to delivering an excellent standard of teaching for all students every lesson
• a willingness to contribute to the department and whole school projects, including the extra-curricular. life of the Academy.

In return, we will offer you:

• a collaborative and inclusive culture, where team members will upskill you and give you regular opportunities to learn from each other in a safe and collaborative environment, both within your schools and Trust-wide.
• an opportunity to undertake structured CPD via access to the National College online CPD platform and/or apprenticeships such as Level 7 Senior Leaders Masters, with regular twilights.
• access to Career Pathways and Pledge to help you plan for and make your goals a reality via our Professional Growth and Performance (PPG) process.
• a wellbeing culture, with paid and unpaid time off to support life events via our Life Leave Policy, access to a Wellbeing Champion and the opportunity to participate in our annual staff wellbeing survey with Edurio, so we know and can respond to views.
• access to 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), which includes confidential counselling, access to wellbeing advice and a lifestyle app called “My Possible Self”.
• access to a suite of supportive policies, such as Life Leave, Wellbeing, Career Break and Family Friendly.
• access to a generous pension scheme known as the Teachers’ Pension Scheme (LGPS).
• access to a comprehensive employee rewards package including Long Service Awards, Employee Referral Scheme, Cycle to Work Scheme and contribution to glasses and eye-sight tests for eligible display screen users.
• opportunity to be part of key Trust-wide collaborative groups such as the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI working group) and Wellbeing working groups, including menopause support and neurodiversity support.
• onsite parking at all schools.

‘Outstanding, resilient and loving’ is how one of our students described our school during our last Ofsted inspection, so we know you would love it here – our friendly, supportive staff always go the extra mile for their students. We are an Ofsted rated Good school, come and join us on our journey to Outstanding.

Informal conversations are warmly welcomed. Please contact Muji Jaigirdar on 0121 803 2751

We are also “happy to talk flexible working” subject to the operational requirements of the role.

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. 

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: 15 January 2025, 9:00am

How to Apply:

Please use the following link: https://mynewterm.com/jobs/141668/EDV-2024-SA-43060

NB. CVs will not be accepted.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

We value our people and are dedicated to making sure that everybody feels empowered to bring their authentic self to work. We have an outstanding opportunity to work at Saltley Academy as a Teacher of Food Technology

We promise to treat all candidates fairly, consistently and with respect throughout the application, assessment, and selection process.