Teacher of Food Technology

About this Role

The Deepings School is a mixed 11-18 comprehensive school at the heart of The Deepings, a vibrant, growing community in South Lincolnshire. We have high expectations of our students during the seven years that the majority of them are part of our school family. We have equally high expectations of all parents/carers and members of staff and we know that you have high expectations of us, too. At The Deepings School we place great emphasis on partnership and co-operation between parents, students and staff to ensure each child receives the best possible education. We encourage and welcome dialogue with all stakeholders of the school to achieve our aim of sustained improvement in all areas.

Our culture of care and positive relationships provides students with the confidence and independence they need to succeed both inside and outside school. We are also committed to ensuring that our students are positive leaders, strong problem-solvers, and develop the life-skills required to prepare them for life after school.

Main purpose

The Teacher of Food Technology will be responsible for the learning and achievement of all students in the allocated classes. The postholder will promote good progress and outcomes by students.

Duties and responsibilities

Teaching & Learning:

• Teach, according to their educational need, students assigned to you in the allocated classes
• Plan and prepare courses and lessons
• Set and mark work carried out by the student in school and elsewhere
• Assess, record and report on the development, progress and attainment of students
• Promote the general progress and well-being of individual students and of any class or group of students assigned to you
• Communicate and consult with parents/carers of students
• Communicate and co-operate with external agencies
• Provide or contribute to oral and written assessments, reports and references relating to individual students and groups of students
• Participate in arrangements made for the appraisal or review of your performance
• Review from time to time your methods of teaching and programmes of work
• Participate in arrangements for your further training and professional development as a teacher and undertake training and professional development which aims to meet needs identified in planning and review statements
• Maintain discipline and good order among students in accordance with the rules and disciplinary systems of the school
• Control and oversee the use of books and other resources provided for class usage
• Maintain up-to-date subject knowledge
• Participate and contribute to meetings at the school which relate to the curriculum for the school or the administration or organisation of the school, including pastoral arrangements
• Register the attendance of students
• Take such part as may be required of you in the review, development and management of activities related to the curriculum, organisation and pastoral functions of the school
• Deploy and supervise Teaching Assistants provided to support students in your allocated classes
• Promote high standards of literacy, regardless of specialist subject
• Cover for absent colleagues within the remit of the current STPCD

Upper Pay Range Accountabilities

• Contribute significantly, where appropriate, to implementing workplace policies and practice and to promoting collective responsibility for their implementation
• Have an extensive knowledge and understanding of how to use and adapt a range of teaching, learning and behaviour management strategies, including how to personalise learning to provide opportunities for all learners to achieve their potential
• Have an extensive knowledge and well-informed understanding of the assessment requirements and arrangements for the subjects/curriculum areas you teach, including those related to public examinations and qualifications
• Have up-to-date knowledge and understanding of the different types of qualifications and specifications and their suitability for meeting learners’ needs
• Have a more developed knowledge and understanding of your subjects/curriculum areas and related pedagogy including how learning progresses within them than a Main Pay Range teacher
• Have sufficient depth of knowledge and experience to be able to give advice to colleagues on the development and well-being of children and young people
• Be flexible, creative and adept at designing learning sequences within lessons and across lessons that are effective and consistently well-matched to learning objectives and the needs of learners and which integrate recent developments, including those relating to subject/curriculum knowledge
• Provide coaching and mentoring to other teachers, give advice to them and demonstrate to them effective teaching practice in order to help them meet the relevant standards and develop their teaching practice
• Make an additional positive contribution to the success of the school

Anthem Schools Trust is committed to creating a diverse workforce. We’ll consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to sex, race, religion, belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, pregnancy, maternity, age, disability, marriage or civil partnership.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and require all staff and volunteers to share and demonstrate this commitment. The successful candidate will have to meet the requirements of the person specification and will be subject to the relevant pre-employment checks which will, where applicable, include a health check, an enhanced DBS check, the Children’s Barred List check and satisfactory references.

It is an offence for an individual who has been disqualified from working with children to knowingly apply for, offer to do, accept, or do any work in a ‘regulated activity’. The position advertised is a ‘regulated activity’.

We will carry out an online check on all shortlisted applicants. We reserve the right to end the closing date early.