Job Title: Food Technology Teacher Newham
Location: Newham, East London
Salary Scale: Mains Scale
Start Date: Immediate, after successful trial day or September 20203
End Date:
If you are sincere about your career within Trauma, Advocacy and Mental Health and Food Teaching, or are looking to take your interest of Food and SEMH Teaching in the mainstream, further:
Can you demonstrate the value of an education to your students while building substantial relationships and keeping them safe?
Can you get the children to be engaged with Food Tech and the Culinary Arts as you are? Food Tech and Cooking is a viable option for children who have been through significant trauma and badly let down by the adult world.
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This Food Technology teaching role is focused on raising attainment with children aged 11-16 who all have an EHCP for their Social, Emotional and Mental Health. It is an all-boys provision, encapsulating the culture and wide disparities in terms of class and wealth, that can be found anywhere in the UK, shown here in Newham. They have capacity for over 85 boys and girls, when at capacity, taking children in from across the boroughs of East London. The children who get accepted are very fortunate due to the outstanding nature of the school, even if their personal and home contexts do not reflect this.
The school has recently been graded as ‘good’ in key categories such as leadership and management and behaviour. The school has a very focused, caring, and restorative approach, this is not a school in which the teachers and support staff raise their voices – that would be the wrong tone and approach.
The Alternative Provision has outstanding facilities in all areas, including their kitchen and Food Tech set up, there is a real and concerted effort on key and functional skills. The school is incredibly sincere in this aim, they are not a ‘tick box’ school and do not pursue grades for the sake of it. They want to give the boys skill sets that will translate into their adulthood and life, hoping where possible to give them an alternative career to the destructive path that they may be on.
They also offer a restorative, therapeutic approach to education and behaviour management, they want their children engaged in key and personal skills, giving the children skills they can use in and out of school.
As a Food Technology Teacher Newham, you will be working in classes of 3-6 pupils with a staff to student ratio of 1:1. It’s a wonderful place to work, focus on positive reinforcement, that’s the only approach to have here.
Making learning fun and accessible for the higher function and low function students, 8% of the students are autistic or have associated Special Needs, attached to their mental health challenges.
The school and teaching approach is very fluid, the boys will not always be in the right frame of mind for a structured lesson, at any time before or after school, they could have been through a trauma or not had a productive evening.
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Requirements
QTS (Qualified Teacher Status)
Role is open to SEMH specialists or Mainstream teachers who can show their credentials to flourish in a SEMH and AP context.
Instructors or individuals with SEMH experience and Cooking/Food Technology credentials
Empathy – Building relationships before diving into the Food and academic content of your lessons.
Available to trial and interview immediately, 5 days a week, Monday to Friday
A Real focus on outside interest that diversify away from the core subjects, building key and personal skills – Sport, Cooking, Coding, Dance, Hair Dressing
Knowledge, keen interest or understanding of the range of different types of learning and behavioural needs (SEMH, PRU)
Ability to adapt to various working environments and students with differing abilities and unpredictable behaviour.
Additional requirements
A co-operative working style
Good interpersonal munication skills
A Restorative approach and being open to new ideas
Ideally Public transport as a new starter, there is limited parking in this part of Newham
Please be advised that this role requires a strong knowledge and understanding of safeguarding and child protection and that successful applicants must satisfy all background safer recruitment checks including an enhanced DBS on the update service.
For more information or to register your interest in ‘Food Technology Teacher Newham’ role, or to be considered, please click ‘apply now’ to submit your full and up-to-date CV, and one of our dedicated consultants, will be in touch within 24 hours.
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