Teacher of Food Technology in Plymouth

We are recruiting for a Teacher of Food Technology to join our staff team at Stoke Damerel Community College and Scott Medical and Healthcare College Campus. The successful candidate will motivate, challenge, support and inspire our students. They must also have relevant experience in a similar role with a proven track record and the ability to teach the Hospitality and Catering GCSE WJEC course. This is a unique and exciting opportunity to join the campus and further contribute to the life chances of young people in the school and across the Trust. The successful applicant will need to have the knowledge, skills and creativity to be an inspiring and outstanding teacher. If you have a focus on raising student attainment and are looking to work in an environment that values the learning of students we would welcome an application from you.

Main duties and responsibilities:

• To implement and deliver an appropriately broad, balanced, relevant and differentiated curriculum for students and to support a designated curriculum area as appropriate.
• Working within the Food Technology department to contribute to raising student achievement and the continued development of the department.
• Teach Food Technology, Hospitality and Catering curriculum across the ability range to years 7-11.
• Identifying clear teaching objectives and specifying how they will be taught and assessed.
• Setting appropriate and demanding expectations.
• Setting clear targets, building on prior attainment.
• To monitor and support the overall progress and development of students as a teacher/tutor.
• To facilitate and encourage a learning experience which provides students with the opportunity to accelerate with their learning.
• To contribute to raising standards of student attainment across the school.
• To share and support the school’s responsibility to provide and monitor opportunities for personal and academic growth.

Applications from ECTs and experienced staff will be equally valued.

What the school offers its staff:

• Highly visible and supportive leadership team.
• Disruption free learning in all classrooms.
• Hard working students.
• Centralised planning and resources.
• Centralised homework checked daily.
• Centralised detentions.
• A clear feed forward policy, incorporating live marking and whole class feed forward only.
• Consistent lesson structure based on the Rosenshine principles.
• Weekly, high quality CPD sessions focused on practice in the classroom.
• Clear daily routines (Standard Operating Procedures – our SOPs) that all staff follow regardless of role.
• Teacher desks include Pastore’s Perch & desk, visualiser and use of two computer screens.
• Subject experts working together within a collaborative trust.
• Commitment to personal developmental drop in every 3 weeks.
• No report writing.
• No hours of marking.
• No individual lesson planning.
• No graded lesson observations.
• No excessive data collection.

Commitment to safeguarding:

Greenshaw Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All teaching and support members of staff must undertake the required pre-employment checks which include the uptake of references both professional and personal and a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) Check.