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Job Title: Food Technology Teacher
Location: UK Secondary School
Reports To: Head of Design & Technology / Headteacher
Job Purpose
Teach Food Technology across relevant secondary key stages, helping students develop practical cooking skills, nutrition knowledge, food hygiene awareness, and creativity in food preparation. Deliver safe, engaging, and differentiated lessons that connect theory with practical application in a kitchen or food room environment. Support students' academic progress and personal development through high expectations, strong routines, and effective practical instruction.
Key Responsibilities
- Plan and deliver Food Technology lessons across assigned year groups, ensuring learning is engaging, inclusive, and appropriately differentiated.
- Teach food preparation, nutrition, healthy eating, meal planning, kitchen organisation, and food safety practices.
- Supervise practical lessons safely, ensuring compliance with health, hygiene, and risk management requirements in all food room activities.
- Prepare lesson resources, ingredients lists, demonstrations, practical tasks, written assignments, and assessments.
- Assess, record, and report student performance, practical competence, and progress in line with school policy.
- Maintain stock awareness, support ordering or resource planning where required, and keep teaching spaces organised and safe.
- Contribute to wider departmental work, parents' evenings, meetings, school events, CPD, and extracurricular enrichment.
- Promote positive behaviour, student independence, and responsible use of equipment and ingredients.
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Candidate Profile
- Bachelor's degree in Food Technology, Nutrition, Hospitality, Design & Technology, Education, or a related field.
- PGCE with QTS or recognised teaching qualification for UK secondary education.
- Experience teaching Food Technology or a closely related practical subject in a school environment.
- Strong knowledge of nutrition, healthy eating, food preparation methods, and classroom/kitchen safety expectations.
- Ability to manage practical lessons confidently and maintain high standards of organisation and safeguarding.
- Strong communication, planning, behaviour management, and student engagement skills.
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Preferred Criteria
- Experience teaching exam classes in Food Preparation and Nutrition or related secondary courses.
- Food hygiene certification or equivalent practical food safety training.
- Experience supporting students with varied learning needs, including SEND learners where relevant.
KPIs / Success Measures
- Student engagement and practical skill development.
- Safe and effective management of practical sessions.
- Student progress, assessment quality, and coursework outcomes.
- Contribution to departmental standards and wider school culture.
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