Not only will you be a Teacher, but a mentor to young lives who will develop transparent and collaborative ways of working to engender openness, trust, and inclusion with the children. The regime at the centre needs to balance safety, safeguarding, health, wellbeing, and learning and development opportunities for the children.

This is an opportunity to make a real difference to the lives of children. You will motivate, inspire, and lead them to success, despite the significant challenges of a complex environment, but also give them hope for the future via Education and Learning.

Some Of The Key Responsibilities Of This Role Are

• Curriculum delivery: This role involves leading the development, resource allocation, and quality assurance of the Food Technology and hospitality curriculum while actively planning and delivering Level 1 cooking lessons aligned with the timetable to meet individual learner needs.
• Assesses student progress to provide targeted support and enable achievement of recognised qualifications.
• Manages the teaching kitchen, ensuring safe utensil handling, strict ingredient inventory control, and hazard-free workspaces.
• Collaborates with key stakeholders to maintain an integrated approach to student care and education.
• Completes all company and awarding body documentation accurately and on time.
• Maintains a secure, safe teaching kitchen while ensuring student welfare and equipment accountability.
• Assist in the promotion of creating a positive Health and Safety culture across the site through leading by example, this includes reporting accidents and near misses in a timely manner and following the applicable safe systems of work for the role.
• G4S is committed to safeguarding and promoting the wellbeing of children and adults at risk and the post holder must support these goals.
• Demonstrates respect, fairness, professionalism, and inclusivity in all workplace interactions.
• You are required to comply with the UK General Data Protection Regulations (UK GDPR) and Data Protection Act 2018, and the organisation's Data Protection Policies and must ensure that personal data relating to service users, colleagues, and others is collected, stored, processed, and disposed of in accordance with these requirements.
• Accesses personal data strictly on a need-to-know basis and reports breaches immediately.

About You

To succeed in this role, you will need to be a dynamic and engaging individual, with a passion for helping, mentoring, and supporting at the heart of everything you do. The role will require you to promote a child-centred approach which prioritises both the safeguarding of the children’s welfare and wellbeing as well as ensuring that a stable and secure environment is provided for all the children and employees at the Centre.

The successful candidate must have a formal relevant teacher or training qualification (e.g. QTS, QTLS, DTTLS or PGCE) or equivalent and hold Level 2 Food Hygiene and Safety.

You will play a huge part in the rehabilitation of a child’s future journey and life choices. We are looking for a highly motivated, caring, and determined Education professional, with the ability to be resilient, confident, with a tenacious can-do attitude, have the ability to embrace complexity, and be a part of a busy, supportive, and fast-paced team.

At G4S, we invest heavily in our people. If you join us, you will have a job-specific induction programme to equip you with the skills and knowledge for the job. As well as ongoing support and development opportunities, we offer generous holiday entitlement, company pension, an onsite gym, free onsite parking, and the chance to do an extraordinary job – every day.

We offer smaller classroom sizes with additional support from support staff, a reduced teacher workload with limited “take home work” to ensure you have a healthy work-life balance which is important to us.

For more information on Oakhill Secure Training Centre, please visit, https://oakhillstc.co.uk/

Equality and Diversity

Equality and Diversity is an important part of G4S Care and Rehabilitation Services. We actively encourage applications from all backgrounds and are a fully inclusive employer who aims to support all employees to be their true selves. We are happy to discuss any reasonable adjustments for either the role or during the recruitment process.

To Apply

To apply for this role, you must be eligible to work in the UK and must have been resident in the UK for a minimum of 5 years. This role is subject to safer recruitment practices including a DBS enhanced level security clearance and will need to provide full details of your work and educational history covering the last 10 years as part of the screening process for the role.