Food Technician (Arnold Hill Spencer Academy)
Location: Arnold Hill Spencer Academy, Gedling Road, Arnold, Nottingham, UK
Education Phase: Secondary
Working Pattern: Full-Time
Contract Type: Permanent
Application Deadline: Friday, 11th July 2025
Interview Date: W/C 14 July 2025
About us
Arnold Hill Spencer Academy is seeking to appoint a dedicated and enthusiastic full-time Food Technician to join our thriving and successful faculty. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the ongoing development of our Food Technology department.
As a Food Technician, you will play a key role in supporting teaching and learning by assisting staff with lesson preparation, maintaining equipment and resources, and ensuring a safe, clean, and efficient working environment in our food technology classrooms. Your work will directly enhance the educational experience of our students.
You will be joining a forward-thinking, dynamic team that is both welcoming and supportive, with a strong commitment to high standards and continuous improvement.
Arnold Hill Spencer Academy is a special place to learn and work. Our students are impressive young people, whose behaviour and achievements are something to be proud of. Our aim is for all members of the community to “Be inspired and achieve together” and to provide opportunities for this on a daily basis. Student attainment and progress is above national average at GCSE and well above average at A Level. We are currently full to capacity in most year groups with waiting lists for students hoping to join. We teach our students the value of respect, how to act responsibly and support them to become mature, independent young people. We very much believe in the potential of every student, enabling them to thrive in our caring environment.
SAT is an educational charity, Multi-Academy Trust and Sponsor of Academies. We have approaching 18000 children and young people in our academies and employ more than 2800 teachers, leaders and educational support professionals across the East Midlands. We aspire to be a leading regional high performing Trust, with a national reputation for excellence.
We currently have 18 primary academies, 8 secondary academies and 1 primary aged special school in our family of schools. All of our schools benefit from the collaboration and added value that being a member of our Trust offers and share our values and beliefs. Spencer Trust academies share an ambition to deliver results that compete with the very highest performing schools in the country and deliver a curriculum for students that is underpinned by breadth, opportunity and quality: one that seeks to give young people the opportunity to develop into well rounded global citizens that believe they can influence positive change in the world.
Mission
Our Mission is to deliver the best possible outcomes for children and young people.
Vision
Spencer Academies Trust is an exceptional Trust, providing an outstanding education for local children.
We Believe:
* All children have a right to a quality education regardless of background or ability, and have an entitlement to the opportunity of a secure progression route in their learning and development.
* Schools are stronger when they work in collaboration with each other, operate within a ‘family’ and are open to a true sense of partnership.
* We grow the effectiveness and sustainability of our schools by developing the people within them, and that through shared and equitable responsibility for quality and outcomes; we achieve more.
Applicants would be expected to share the Trust’s high aspirations and expectations for pupils and staff.
The Spencer Academies Trust Safer recruitment policy requires applications for this post must be submitted through our recruitment portal. CVs cannot be accepted. We are also required to request references prior to interview.
Closing date for applications 11.59pm Friday 11th July 2025
Interviews will take place on W/C 14 July 2025
Early application is strongly encouraged as we reserve the right to interview and close the advert ahead of the closing date.
How to Apply
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Safeguarding and Equality
Spencer Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our children and young people. Therefore, we expect everyone to share this commitment. All appointments are subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks, including a satisfactory Enhanced criminal records with Barred List Check through the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and the completion of Level 2 Safeguarding training. It is an offence to apply for the role if an applicant is barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children (where the role involves this type of regulated activity).
The Trust and its member academies are committed to promoting equality and diversity in both employment and education provision. We aim to ensure that students, parents, governors, employees, contractors, partners, clients and other stakeholders within the Trust community are treated fairly, and with dignity and respect regardless of Protected Characteristics.
Spencer Academies Trust is a Disability Confident Committed Employer
Job Description
Please see attached document
Benefits
Local Government Pension Scheme, Employee Assist Programme (Health Assured) and BHN Extras (Discount and Salary Sacrifice Schemes). Recognition of local government and academy continuous service, for full details please visit: https://www.satrust.com/employee-benefits
Desired Criteria
* Previous experience in an educational environment
* Experience of using SIMS
* Good standard of education especially with regard to literacy and numeracy skills.
* GCSE Maths and English grade C or equivalent
* Ability to work calmly under pressure
* Ability to communicate clearly orally and in writing
* Ability to work collaboratively with others
* Ability to work with school-based systems and specified timelines
* Knowledge of the practices and procedures relating to working with food.
* Knowledge of safe food storage and handling.
* Understanding of Health & Safety in the workplace.
* Ability to use office computer software including word processing, spreadsheets, email and internet systems
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