Teacher

Full-Time Food Technology Teacher – September 2025 Start
Location: Gloucester
Contract: Temp to Perm

Monarch Education is seeking a passionate and dedicated Food Technology Teacher to join a successful secondary school in Gloucester from September 2025. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced educator to inspire students, develop their practical cooking skills, and contribute to a vibrant Food Tech department within a supportive school environment.

About the Role:
As a Food Technology Teacher, you will be responsible for delivering engaging and practical lessons across Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4. You will foster creativity, nutritional awareness, and culinary skills in students, encouraging them to become confident and independent cooks. Your role will be to inspire a love of food, support their academic progress, and promote safe and hygienic practices in the kitchen.

Key Responsibilities:

• Plan, prepare, and deliver high-quality Food Technology lessons aligned with the national curriculum
• Develop engaging schemes of work and resources to encourage creativity, healthy eating, and practical skills
• Assess and monitor student work, providing constructive feedback to support their development
• Use a variety of teaching methods, including practical cooking sessions, demonstrations, and theoretical lessons
• Promote health and safety, hygiene, and safety standards within the kitchen environment
• Support students’ social, emotional, and behavioural development within the classroom and practical sessions
• Track and evaluate student progress, adapting teaching strategies to meet individual needs
• Contribute to departmental planning, curriculum development, and extra-curricular activities related to Food Technology
• Foster an inclusive and motivating environment that encourages resilience, independence, and a love of cooking
• Participate in school events, parents’ evenings, and staff meetings

Person Specification:

• Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) is essential
• Proven experience teaching Food Technology at secondary level is essential
• Strong knowledge of nutrition, food safety, and practical cooking skills
• Excellent classroom management and behaviour management skills
• Ability to inspire enthusiasm and confidence in students’ culinary abilities
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to plan and deliver engaging lessons
• Commitment to creating an inclusive, safe, and stimulating learning environment

Please only apply to this role if you have Qualified Teacher Status – if you are unsure if you have QTS, please visit Qualified teacher status (QTS): qualify to teach in England – GOV.UK. Any applications without QTS, will not be considered.

Monarch Education are proud to be a leading recruitment specialist in the Education industry. We are passionate about our people and the services we provide to our candidates. Working with Monarch Education will give you access too:

• Flexible working opportunities
• Affinity Academy – continuous learning and development!
• A Refer a Friend Scheme giving you a bonus of up to £200
• Exclusive vacancies within local Schools and Multi Academy Trusts
• Competitive daily rates

To learn more about us and what makes Monarch one of the leading education recruitment providers nationwide – please visit our website – About Us – Monarch (monarcheducation.co.uk)

Monarch Education are committed to providing equal opportunities for all candidates and welcomes applications regardless of sex, race, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, religion and belief pregnancy and maternity or disability as well as adhering to strict Safeguarding procedures.

Affinity Workforce Solutions and Monarch Education are committed to safeguarding and promoting welfare of children and young people and expects all its temporary workers to share these commitments. As this role involves working with children on a daily basis, regulated activity is that any successful applicant’s applications will, accordance with statutory guidance, be subject to 2 employment references, an enhanced DBS check and a right to work in the UK check.

This vacancy is based in the United Kingdom. Monarch Education operate in the UK and can only process applications from candidates who are currently UK residents and eligible to work in the UK. Whilst we will endeavour to contact you following your response, due to the high volume of applications we regret that this cannot always be possible. If you have not had notification from us within 30 days please take your application as not being successful this time but we will keep your details on file for future opportunities.

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