Job title: Food Technician

Hours: 25 - 30 hours per week (negotiable), term plus one week/INSET days

Salary: H2-H3  £14,751 - £18529 ( 25hrs H2 - 30 hrs H3)

Responsible to: Teacher of Food, Health Faculty

Contract: Permanent

Required as soon as possible, an enthusiastic, well-organised and practically-minded technician to support the teaching of food, preparation and nutrition to ensure the best possible learning experience for pupils. The role will include preparing materials or ingredients for lessons, purchasing and maintaining stock, ensuring equipment is clean and in good order, preparing displays of work and other administrative tasks. Supporting the Food teacher in advising students on the safe and proper use of the equipment and supporting students in learning activities during lessons as required. Previous experience of working in a school or food environment and a knowledge of food hygiene and practical Health and Safety would be an advantage.

Visitors tell us that our school is a friendly, lively and stimulating community where we emphasise the importance of the individual’s contribution and take pleasure in sharing and celebrating achievement.  They commend the good behaviour of the pupils and their thirst for knowledge. Bishop’s is a diverse community that offers mutual support and encouragement and expects everyone within it to respect others’ heritage, cultures, religion and beliefs.  We hope that the values, self-discipline and sense of personal worth that pupils gain here will be a support throughout their lives as British and Global Citizens. We welcome applications from candidates from racially minoritised backgrounds and from other groups that are underrepresented in the UK education system.

Bishop’s Hatfield Girls’ School is heavily over-subscribed and has around 950 pupils on roll including the Sixth Form.  We are fully committed to our values of teamwork, respect, honesty, trust, kindness and ambition.  The school completed its most recent Ofsted inspection in December 2022 and was judged to continue to be Outstanding. However, we are not driven by Ofsted and our priorities lie in supporting our pupils to develop their knowledge, skills and character through the ‘Bishop’s 360’ model.  The school has benefited from a total rebuild on the same site and enjoys excellent state of the art facilities.  BHGS holds International School Status, the Music Mark and is a Fairtrade School.  Hatfield is within easy reach of London and other areas and the London Fringe Allowance is payable.

The school's Admissions’ Code gives priority places to children of staff and we give high priority to staff development. Staff are able to apply for our Professional Development Award which provides bursary payments to help finance CPD that goes beyond the school’s usual training programme.

We take safeguarding of our students extremely seriously and an enhanced disclosure will be sought through the Disclosure and Barring Service as part of the school’s pre-employment checks.

An Equal Opportunities’ Employer,

Bishop’s Hatfield Girls’ School is committed to

the protection and safety of its pupils and expects all

staff to share this commitment.