Role: Food Technician
Academy: Outwood Academy Valley
Start Date: As soon as possible
Salary (Actual Salary): £21,955 to £22,304
Working Pattern: 37 Hours Per Week, Monday to Friday, Term Time only + 5 days (39 weeks)
Do you have practical expertise in food preparation and hygiene standards, coupled with a desire to facilitate dynamic teaching and learning in a busy Food Technology environment? Can you manage stock control, equipment maintenance, and rigorous cleaning procedures to ensure lessons run smoothly? The overall purpose of this post is supporting teaching and learning in the Technology Department on a day-to-day basis.
Welcome from the Principal
I am proud to introduce you to Outwood Academy Valley, a school where excellence, innovation, and opportunity create an outstanding learning environment for both students and staff. We are situated at the heart of the community in Worksop, the "Gateway to the Dukeries."
We are deeply committed to putting students first, raising standards, and transforming lives. We believe learning should be enjoyable and enriching, allowing students to make exceptional progress through our knowledge-rich, personalised curriculum. Our Performing Arts Department is a particular area of excellence.
If you are passionate about education, we warmly invite you to join our dedicated team. We value and invest in our staff, offering high-quality professional development and a collaborative environment. We operate as a supportive school family, celebrating successes and working together with a shared sense of purpose.
If you share our values, apply now and take the next step in your career with us.
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The Food Technician ensures the effective delivery of the food curriculum by preparing materials, assisting with demonstrations, and maintaining high hygiene standards. Core duties involve managing inventory, restocking consumables/ingredients, and ensuring robust stock rotation.
This includes preparing and clearing away food demonstrations and equipment for lessons, ensuring laundry is managed, and cleaning/checking storage areas. The role also involves administrative support (printing, displays), assisting with stock taking, maintaining technology related machinery, and arranging regular safety inspections of equipment. The technician maintains risk assessment records and supports community healthy eating initiatives.
This role requires a Level 2 Food Hygiene or equivalent qualification. Essential skills required are the ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences, maintain confidentiality, and utilise standard ICT packages (Microsoft Office).
The individual must exhibit excellent time management and organisation skills necessary to prioritise and manage their own workload. Experience of working in a school environment or within a specific curriculum area is desirable. Candidates must be willing and able to obtain and/or enhance qualifications and training and development.
Outwood Grange Academies Trust (OGAT) places staff development at the heart of its strategy to deliver excellence, aiming to recruit, develop, and retain the best staff through the Outwood Institute of Education (OIE).
What will we do for you?
We offer a supportive package focusing on professional advancement, secure benefits, and work-life balance:
Secure Pay & Pension: Competitive salary, automatic pay progression, and enrolment in the Local Government Pension Scheme.
Training & Progression: Access to diverse CPD opportunities, including apprenticeships and vocational qualifications.
Flexibility & Leave: Flexible family policies, enhanced occupational benefits (with no qualifying period), and 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays for non-term time staff. (Holiday for part-time staff is calculated on a pro-rata basis)
Wellbeing & Perks: Dedicated mental well-being strategy, free on-site parking, employee discounts, and access to a comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme.
If you are looking for a rewarding, supportive role where you can truly make an impact, we encourage you to apply now.
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Please note, we reserve the right to close advertisements early, either on the advertised closing date, or sooner if required.
Outwood Grange Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All appointments are made in accordance with safer recruitment practices and the statutory guidance in Keeping Children Safe in Education. Online checks will be carried out on all shortlisted candidates, and all appointments are subject to an enhanced DBS check, satisfactory references and checks regarding suitability to work with children.
We are an award-winning multi-academy education trust with passion, purpose and people at our heart. We manage 41 transformative primary, junior, secondary and Post 16 schools up and down the North of England, from Redcar to Nottinghamshire, each celebrating very different identities but driven by a shared vision. Each academy is individually shaped around the community and children it serves.
We’re incredibly proud of how far our kind, creative and talented teachers and support staff go to make life better for our pupils and their families. It’s why we have built such a leading reputation in education and taken failing schools to Ofsted-rated outstanding in a record amount of time.
We are committed to putting students first, raising standards and transforming lives.
