Full or Part time Teacher of Food Preparation and Nutrition

About the role

Headteacher: Mr F Moane

School Roll: 768 with 221 in Sixth Form

Part time/Full time Teacher of Food Preparation and Nutrition

MPS - UPS + Fringe

Permanent

September 2025

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced or highly ambitious and dynamic teacher to join our Food Preparation and Nutrition team at Verulam School in St Albans, Hertfordshire. We welcome applications for both full-time and part-time positions.

As a member of the Technology department, you will play a key role in shaping and further developing the Food Preparation and Nutrition curriculum. You’ll be expected to maintain high standards of teaching and learning, utilize resources effectively, and ensure the curriculum prepares students for the future. Teaching of a food qualification at KS5 or an ability to teach Design and Technology at KS3 would be an advantage.

Our faculty delivers a diverse range of subjects, including Food Preparation and Nutrition, Graphics, Resistant Materials, and Systems & Control at KS3. At KS4, we offer GCSE Food Preparation and Nutrition and GCSE Design & Technology – Systems and Resistant Materials. At A-Level, we offer Product Design and are expanding to include Level 3 Food Science and Nutrition from September 2025. Our curriculum is continuously evolving, and we encourage staff to actively participate in discussions that further develop and enhance our provision, ensuring all students are set up for success.

The Design and Technology department is vibrant, forward-thinking, and supported by a passionate, dedicated team of staff and two outstanding technicians. This is an exciting time to join us as we prepare for upcoming renovations that will upgrade and modernize our facilities, ensuring we remain at the cutting edge of new technologies and innovations.

If you are passionate about fostering the success of both your students and colleagues, and have the drive to make a lasting difference, we would love to receive your application.

Verulam places great emphasis on extra-curricular activity and engagement and benefits from outstanding attendance and exemplary behaviour.

Verulam School is a high achieving boys’ school with a mixed Sixth Form, which forms part of the highly successful BeauSandVer consortium. As a school, our core values of “Excellence, Character, Respect” permeate all that we do. We are located in St Albans, a beautiful and vibrant Cathedral city with a lively cultural life and a huge variety of restaurants, bars, pubs and shops. Recently named in the Sunday Times as the best place in the southeast to live, St Albans is surrounded by beautiful countryside but is still only 20 minutes from London by train and with easy access to motorways and airports.

The school has good GCSE and A Level results and achieved an above average Progress 8 score of +0.36 in 2023 for the whole school. It was judged to be a Good school in all categories by Ofsted in May 2024.

Verulam School is a member of the Ambition Education Trust (AET). The Ambition Education Trust (AET) consists of ten schools in Hertfordshire; three primary, one nursery and infants’, one juniors and five secondary. Our Trust launched in September 2024 following the amalgamation of two established Multi Academy Trusts (MATs), Alban Academies Trust and ATLAS Multi Academy Trust. As a member of AET, we are able to maximise opportunities for rewarding careers and opportunities for personal and professional development throughout our wider organisation. We work together within the Trust to share best practice, deliver joint training, promote the highest of expectations and raise achievement for all students.

Verulam School is an equal opportunity employer, committed to diversity and the creation of an inclusive environment for all employees. Employment selections are made according to suitability for the post, irrespective of background or protected characteristic. Verulam School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.

If you wish to have a tour of the school or ask any questions, please contact Roberta Williams on HR@verulam.aetrust.uk or 01727 766100.

To apply, please submit a completed application form from the portal My New Term via a link on the school website: https://verulamschool.co.uk/job-vacancies/

Closing date: Tuesday 22nd April 2025

Interviews: TBC

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.