Food & Nutrition/Art Technician
Laurus Cheadle Hulme
Laurus Cheadle Hulme
- £10,521 - £10,731 per year
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Job type:
- Part Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2020
- Apply by:
- 2 June 2020
Job overview
LAURUS TRUST - ‘Whatever it takes’
Job Title: Food & Nutrition/Art Technician
Scale: 3 £18,795 - £19,171; actual salary from £10,521 - £10,731 pro rata per annum term time only
Hours: 25 per week
Location: Laurus Cheadle Hulme
Start Date: 01/09/2020
Closing Date: 9am 02/06/2020
Interview Date: 10/06/2020
We are seeking to appoint a creative, enthusiastic and organised Food/Art Technician to join the School’s Creative Design Department. The successful candidate will have a love for creativity, be highly organised and have a helpful disposition.
As a technician, you will assist teachers with the preparation of food/art materials for lessons as prescribed in the department scheme of work. Organising and maintaining equipment and providing teachers and students with efficient technical support is key. Technical support for GCSE classes, school productions and exhibitions will also be an expectation. The role will involve a significant contribution to how the school environment is presented to reflect our specialism.
Experience of working successfully with young people is desirable, along with the ability to work both alone and as part of a team. Someone with a can-do attitude, drive, flair, a team-spirit and patience is expected. The successful candidate need not hold a Food and Nutrition or Art Degree though an interest in Art/Food and in practical skills is important.
The ideal candidate will need the following knowledge and experience:
- Sound educational background including GCSE Maths and English (A*-C)
- Willing to undertake any additional training as required, and learn new skills
- General awareness of a kitchen environment and knowledge of the workings of essential equipment
- Experience of delivering to deadlines and achieving set targets to a high standard
- Experience of allocating and prioritising workload effectively to gain maximum productivity
- Strong IT Skills including Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, Word and Outlook
- Ability to manage a budget
- Numeracy, including the ability to weigh and measure accurately
- An awareness of presentation and an eye for detail (creativity)
- Excellent planning and organisational skills
The Laurus Trust is a growing multi-academy trust in the North West of England.
The vision of the Trust is for everyone regardless of background or circumstance to be inspired, to thrive in all environments, to recognise what it takes to succeed, to set aspirational goals and to work hard to achieve them. In the recent Staff Engagement Survey 97% of our employees stated that they would recommend working for Laurus Trust to their friends.
All our Laurus Schools are hugely oversubscribed and have a reputation, both locally and further afield, for outstanding teaching and learning through the relentless pursuit of excellence and the determination to ensure that every child succeeds.
Cheadle Hulme High School (CHHS) is the founder school of the Laurus Trust and was judged Outstanding in every single category by Ofsted in 2011 and 2015. A training school for thirteen years and a Teaching School for a further six, CHHS is also home to the Altius Alliance centre of excellence providing School Centred Initial Teacher Training (SCITT) for teachers of students aged 11-16, judged Outstanding in 2017. In 2016, Gorsey Bank Primary School (GB), a high performing primary school based in Wilmslow, joined the Trust.
The Trust has opened four brand new free schools – Cheadle Hulme Primary School (CHPS), Laurus Cheadle Hulme (LCH), Laurus Ryecroft (LR) and the most recent in September 2019, Didsbury High School (DHS). The Laurus Alternative Provision School is in the pre-opening phase and Hazel Grove High School (HGHS) joined the Trust in September 2019.
Everyone in the Laurus Trust family play a vital role in maintaining the high standards of the Trust. Support staff work tirelessly to ensure all services run smoothly and efficiently, enabling our teaching staff to focus on delivering an outstanding education for our students.
If you are a passionate and committed individual just starting your career or you are looking to build on existing skills and want to work in a highly progressive and successful organisation, committed to growth and opportunities for all, then we want to hear from you.
At the Laurus Trust, it is not just about what we do but also about how we do it. Our core behaviours detailed below provide guidance on the expectations we have of our staff. It is essential that any employee joining the Trust is able to demonstrate some or all of these behaviours on a regular/daily basis:
Adaptable - Open to change, to be flexible
Courageous - Willing to speak up, offer ideas, challenge the norm
Hard Working - Strong work ethic, prepared to go the extra mile
Inclusive - Treat others fairly and equally
Engaged - Involved/absorbed in your work, participate at all times
Value - Add value to your role, your team and the Trust
Enquiring - Have an enquiring mind, curious, improve and find solutions
Motivated - Pro-active, wanting to achieve goals, willingness to try, can do attitude
Encouraging - Giving/offering support and confidence to others, working together
Navigator - Providing guidance, leading when necessary
Tenacious - Perseverance, never giving up, whatever it takes
The Laurus Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children at all times and expects all staff to share this commitment.
In return for your commitment, we have a wide range of employee benefits available to all our staff to contribute towards improving their well-being. We are always looking at ways in which we can improve our offering to ensure the benefits are valued by our staff. Our benefits include:
- Competitive salary
- 31 days holiday including bank holidays (pro rata) – increasing with length of service
- A proactive approach to flexible – we are a family friendly organisation
- State of the art school facilities and new Trust HQ offices
- Subsidised nursey in Cheadle Hulme
- Children of Staff have priority in the admissions oversubscription process (subject to availability)
- Pension scheme with excellent employer contributions
- Occupational Health Support including a Wellbeing App
- A Health and Wellbeing strategy including targeted Health Promotion Initiatives
- Enhanced Family Leave
- Attendance Vouchers
- Cycle Loan Scheme
- Occupational sick pay
- Staff development programme and investment in professional qualifications
- Employee Assistance Partner
- Subsidised Gym Membership
- Free Flu jabs
- Death in service
- Health & Wellbeing Champions and trained Mental Health First Aiders in every school
Please base the evidence in your application on the knowledge and experience of the role as described in the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Any candidate who has a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010, is required to inform us, in order to ensure that ‘reasonable adjustments’ can be made.
To apply, complete the application form below by clicking on the ‘Quick Apply’ button (CVs are not accepted).
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About Laurus Cheadle Hulme
Laurus Cheadle Hulme (LCH) is a non-selective, non-denominational Free School. It opened in September 2018. We currently have a total of 1071 students on roll.
Cheadle Hulme is a pleasant residential suburb on the edge of the Borough of Stockport, eleven miles south of the centre of Manchester. The location enjoys the advantages of proximity to the open countryside of Cheshire and the Peak District and the cultural and sporting activities of a major city.
Our students are housed in a purpose-built building with access to state-of-the-art facilities and overlooking Bruntwood Park, with our Year 11 students progressing to Sixth Forms in the Laurus Trust. We share the same site as Cheadle Hulme Primary School.
In 2023 Laurus Cheadle Hulme achieved an outstanding set of GCSE results with over 70% of students achieving at least a grade 4 standard pass and 61% a strong pass in English and Maths. Our Year 9 students also received phenomenal results in GCSE Spanish. 89% of our Year 9s achieved the gold standard of a grade 5 or better, 79% of students achieved at least a grade 6 or above and 42% of students achieved at least a grade 7 or above. These results far outstrip national Year 11 figures.
The school is run by the Laurus Trust and replicates the outstanding education offered by the Trust’s founder school, Cheadle Hulme High School (CHHS), based in Stockport. CHHS is a hugely oversubscribed school and has been named as one of the UK’s top-performing schools in The Sunday Times, ranking as the 15th non-denominational comprehensive school in Manchester and the North West in the annual Parent Power Survey for 2022.
To view the School's Prospectus, please click here: Admissions - Laurus Cheadle Hulme
About the Laurus Trust
The Laurus Trust is a highly successful and growing multi-academy trust in the North West of England, with Cheadle Hulme High School (CHHS), the founder school, at its centre. Our vision is for everyone regardless of background or circumstance to be inspired, to thrive in all environments, to recognise what it takes to succeed, to set aspirational goals and to work hard to achieve them.
All our Laurus Schools are hugely oversubscribed and have a reputation, both locally and further afield, for outstanding teaching and learning through the relentless pursuit of excellence and the determination to ensure that every child succeeds. It’s important to us as an employer that our staff feel that we care about them at work. 97% agree that we do!
At the Laurus Trust, it is not just about what we do but also about how we do it. We are seeking individuals who are able to demonstrate our core behaviours which set out the expectations we have of our staff.
The Laurus Trust is an inclusive Equal Employment Opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We welcome and encourage applications from all individuals regardless of individual background or circumstance.
As a Disability Confident Committed Employer, we strongly encourage applications from all persons with a known disability, and we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants, that meet the minimum criteria for a role, will be offered an interview and given the opportunity to demonstrate their skills, talents and abilities.
The Laurus Trust and its affiliated schools are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. As such, all posts are subject to a safer recruitment process, including online checks and the disclosure of criminal records. It is an offence to apply for the role if the applicant is barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.
To view our Safeguarding Policy, please click here.
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