FOOD TECHNICIAN

Salary: £23,893 - £26,421 FTE

Actual Salary: £20,956 - £23,173

37.5 hour per week

Term Time + 5 days (39 weeks per year)

Monday to Friday, 8:15am – 4:15pm

Commencing – September 2024

Are you passionate about food and nutrition?

Can you support the next generation of chefs and food scientists?

Watling Academy is looking for an enthusiastic Food Technician to join our team from September 2024. The successful candidate will be integral to our Food and Nutrition department, ensuring that teachers and students have the materials and resources they need for a dynamic learning experience.

Your responsibilities will include preparing materials and learning resources for lessons, maintaining and updating displays throughout the Academy, and providing in-class support for teachers and students as required. You'll also monitor and manage stock levels, ensuring that consumable materials are replenished in a timely manner, and conduct regular safety checks on departmental equipment.

Watling Academy was judged as ‘Outstanding’ by OFSTED in May 2023 and is a purpose-built 11-18 secondary school in its fourth year of operation, located within the Whitehouse development on the western expansion area of Milton Keynes. The Academy will have 1800 students when at full capacity.  Watling Academy is part of the Denbigh Alliance MAT.

The Denbigh Alliance has a track record of delivering academic success in subjects which offer students a real currency to progress into higher education or employment. We consistently outperform the Milton Keynes and national averages in terms of the results our students achieve.  This academic success is built on the supportive, well-disciplined and dynamic learning environment we provide, which enables our students to focus on their studies. We believe that for a School to succeed there needs to be a genuine spirit of partnership between students, the School and parents. 

We are a Maths Hub, Computing Hub and SCITT and amongst the best in the country in terms of raising standards, both within our Trust and in the schools that we support.

If you are interested in joining our team, please visit our website, www.watlingacademy.net, for more information about the school.

Applications will only be accepted via My New Term - please do not send CVs.

The Denbigh Alliance is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS check is required for all successful applicants.

E-mail: hr@thedenbighalliance.org.uk

Headteacher: Mr I Bacon

Closing date for applications: Monday 29th July 2024, 9am