Blackburn Central High School
Blackburn with Darwen
£32,916 - £51,048 per year
Salary:
MPS 1 - UPS 3
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
01 January 2026
Apply by:
26 September 2025
Job overview
Food Technology Teacher
We are seeking an enthusiastic and adaptable Food Technology Teacher to join our dedicated team at Blackburn Central High School. You will deliver high-quality lessons at KS3 and KS4, ensuring students achieve their full potential. The role involves delivering engaging lessons, assessing student progress, and contributing to continuous improvement within the faculty. You will work closely with the Senior Leadership Team to monitor attainment and support student development. The ideal candidate will be committed to fostering a culture of learning, achievement, and personal growth in line with the school's ethos.
If you would like to know more, we would be delighted to welcome you to our school. Visits prior to application are both welcomed and encouraged. Please contact the school on or by e-mailing to arrange an appointment.
Our Employee Benefits
At Oak Learning Partnership, you'll find yourself in a vibrant, inclusive, and supportive environment, where everyone can grow, progress, and achieve a fulfilling career. We offer a fantastic range of rewards and benefits, challenging and interesting work, and opportunities to achieve your potential.
In return you will benefit from:
Enrolment into the Teacher Pension Scheme
Excellent Continuous Professional Development (CPD)
A strong and caring ethos among staff and students
Networking opportunities across our trust
Salary sacrifices cycle to work scheme
Healthcare plan through Medicash and is an easy to use health insurance. The health cash plan provides cashback towards your everyday healthcare bills, benefiting from a range of digital and virtual tools to help you protect and improve your wellbeing. 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme – emotional, financial and legal support to both you and your family by a team of qualified professionals
Health and Wellbeing through Medicash with access to a 24/7 Telephone Support Service and Face to Face counselling service.
Application
We reserve the right to interview and appoint prior to the closing date of the advertisement, should we identify an appropriate candidate.
For further information about the role please contact
Oak Learning Partnership is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people in their care and expects everybody working for the organisation to share this commitment. To this end any offer of employment will be subject to safer recruitment checks and clearances.
Oak Learning Partnership
Our trust is cross phase and consists of primary, special, and secondary schools. We have a vision to transform lives through a highly inclusive approach.
'Inclusion is at the heart of our trust'.
About Blackburn Central High School
Blackburn Central High School
Haslingden Road, Blackburn
Lancashire
BB2 3HJ
United Kingdom
We are a popular, thriving school based in the heart of our community.
There are no secrets to an excellent education: it entails good teaching and learning, strong support and hard work. We pride ourselves on knowing and caring for all our students whilst having high expectations and ambitions for them all.
We want the best for all our students, we want them to stretch themselves and reach further than they ever thought possible. Our students aspire and achieve in both their academic and personal development.
We are very proud of our students; they are smart, successful, polite, well behaved and keen to learn. Positive relationships between staff and students are key to our success as we know young people are inspired to learn from the people they trust and respect.
Headteacher
Shanaz Hussain
Ofsted
"Pupils are proud to attend this school. They have warm and trusting relationships with staff. Pupils told inspectors that they appreciate the family atmosphere of the school, where everyone is equally valued.
Leaders and governors have high expectations of what pupils can achieve. Pupils respond positively to the challenges set for them. They enjoy learning and achieve well.
Diversity is not just tolerated at this school, it is celebrated. Pupils and staff have won national recognition for the work that they have done to promote inclusion. There is a well established culture of respect. Bullying is rare. Leaders have systems in place to tackle any incidents of bullying or poor behaviour swiftly and effectively. Consequently pupils are happy and safe."
Take a look at the full
Ofsted inspection document here.
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