Food Technician
Thurstable School
Essex
- £12,103 per year
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Salary:
- Local Government Pay Scale
- Job type:
- Part Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 1st September 2024
- Apply by:
- 31 July 2024
Job overview
Hours 23 hours per week. These vary on a daily basis in line with the Food timetable. Term time only.
Actual Salary: £12103
Thurstable School is a dynamic educational environment dedicated to providing exceptional learning experiences for our students. We are seeking a dedicated and efficient Food Technician to join our team and contribute to the smooth operation of our Food Technology Department.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lesson Preparation: Ensure the efficient preparation and organisation of lesson materials, including weighing out ingredients for practical lessons and providing necessary equipment to the class.
- Classroom Support: Assist teaching staff and pupils during lessons and help maintain displays within the department.
- Practical Demonstrations:Provide practical demonstrations of recipes as needed.
- Stock Management: Maintain appropriate stocks in liaison with the Head of Department, including weekly shopping, stock rotation, and ensuring value for money.
- Cleaning and Maintenance: Keep washing up to date, replace linen, clean up after lessons, and ensure rooms are maintained in a clean and tidy manner.
- Administrative Support: Provide administrative support including typing, photocopying, and laminating.
- Equipment Maintenance:Regularly inspect department equipment, arrange repairs and cleaning in liaison with the Site Manager, and manage testing of electrical equipment.
- Financial Management: Order supplies and equipment, raise purchase orders, check invoices, and maintain accurate financial records.
- Event Organisation: Assist in organising events such as the Super Chef competition.
- Health and Safety: Ensure the application of Health and Safety procedures and raise awareness of Health & Safety issues within the department.
Key Requirements
- Strong organisational and time-management skills.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Proficiency in administrative tasks such as typing, photocopying, and laminating.
- Basic knowledge of Health and Safety procedures.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Experience in stock management and financial record-keeping.
- Ability to provide practical demonstrations and support during lessons.
How to Apply:
If you are passionate about supporting educational activities and ensuring the smooth operation of our department, we would love to hear from you.
Join us at Thurstable School and play a vital role in enhancing our students' learning experience!
All posts are subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks including an enhanced DBS check.
Attached documents
About Thurstable School
Context and Characteristics - Traditional Values, Innovation Practice
We are currently an 11-18 school with 1045 students however from September 2025 we will be an 11-16 school. Based outside of Colchester, we are a semi-rural school which serves Tiptree and surrounding villages. We are a SAT (Stand Alone Academy Trust) with a very experienced senior leadership team who are absolutely committed to our mission and serving the school community through establishing traditional values with highly innovative practices e.g. a two week October half term break, CPD within the school day on a Friday with teaching completed by lunchtime and a Yondr pouch system that means we are a genuinely mobile phone free school.
Our Mission and Values
A warm welcome to Thurstable School, a school with a clear mission of building knowledge and growing character. Underpinning these are our strong values of aspire, respect and endeavour, values that are lived and not just laminate. They are part of our DNA and inform all of our interactions and decisions at the school from our reward system to our shared language.
Building Knowledge
Over the last three years our results have performed well above the Essex average in terms of Progress 8, for example in 2022 we were +0.43 and 0 in 2023. We very much believe in gimmick free teaching and learning which places the teacher as the expert in the classroom. Sustainable academic achievement comes from students developing the habits of success from Year 7 and building on these each year. We do this through our Morning Meeting programme which every year starts with Cog Sci module on how to boost long term memory. Students practise these skills ahead of their half term milestone knowledge based assessments.
Academic scholarship, reading and writing are at the heart of our curriculum and all students in Years 7 and 10 enjoy our Thurstable Loves To Read (TLR) programme which ensures that students read on average for 20 minutes a day.
Growing Character
Equally important to our ethos is growing character and one of our mantras is “true character is doing the right thing when no one is looking”. We believe that character is taught, caught and sought. Central to this is our Tutor Group Character Curriculum and Elective Programme. Students are able to choose to attend up to over 50 after school clubs and societies
High Expectations and Consistent Routines
We know that ensuring high standards of behaviour is key to a successful school and we have achieved this through our ‘warm strict’ approach. There are clear, simple and effective processes in place to ensure disruption free classrooms. Senior Leaders take the lead on behaviour and are visible on every transition, lesson and entry to and from school. We run a centralised on-call and detention system so that teachers can focus on preparing great lessons. Key to our culture is consistency of routine from the way lessons start to how we connect before we correct.
Supporting Your Professional Growth
We removed performance related pay five years ago and believe in professional growth at the heart of school improvement. One of the original Steplab Coaching Hub schools, we have been pioneers in Instructional Coaching and all colleagues receive regular coaching from one of our Lead Practitioners or senior leaders. Highly supportive of individual professional development, many of our colleagues have completed NPQML/SL courses etc
Guaranteeing your Well-being, Reducing your Workload
- There are no after school meetings as there is 1h 25 minutes each week of CPD, much of which is allocated to departments to provide subject specific training, sharing of best practice and curriculum development
- We prioritise the collective production of lesson resources to save individual planning e.g. through booklets, centralised resources etc. We have prioritised the time for this to happen.
- No expectation of traditional book marking - we have a feedback policy which focuses on providing live feedback in lessons and whole class feedback.
- Half termly assessments in most subjects are multiple choice knowledge assessments that are automatically marked with no teacher input or workload.
- Two week October half term break with no reduction in the Summer holiday
- Only a maxim of two main summative assessments per year group.
- This year we are launching our
- Centralised detention system
- Strong behavioural system based on systems not personality
- Laptop
- Discounts membership to Tiptree Leisure World.
- Free membership of the Education Assistance Programme from Education Support which includes:
- A range of counselling options including telephone, online or face-to-face sessions, and a mindfulness module
- A dedicated coaching service for line managers, aimed at developing soft skills and building confidence for handling challenging situations
- Financial, legal and practical support from qualified professionals on a range of personal issues
- Access to online health and wellbeing resources and a specialist information service
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