Catering Teacher

Catering Teacher

24 hours per week, 40 weeks per year

Qualified £14,909.11 - £21,155.88 (FTE 28,320.80 - 40,186.93)

Unqualified £12,952.09 - £17,276.75 (FTE 24,603.32 - 32,818.28)

This is an exciting opportunity to join Grace Garden School across both our sites as a Catering Teacher where you will work pedagogically with the children providing practical, experiential and therapeutic education and helping pupils to cook using organic and biodynamic produce grown in the grounds of Grace Garden School. The sessions will focus on the seed to table curriculum and embrace the RMT Food and Nutrition Policy.

The qualifications, skills and experiences that we are looking for are:

• Full teaching qualification or equivalent experience

• Experience or willingness to work with the Trust’s Food and Nutrition policy.

• Knowledge of Rudolf Steiner Holistic Education with particular reference to the works and insights of John Ruskin and William Morris

• A team player with experience of teaching with young people with SEND

• Adaptable and shows initiative

• High level of personal resilience

• Excellent communication skills and high levels of emotional intelligence.

The Key duties of this role will be:

• To work in conjunction with the school leadership team to ensure that the seed to table methodology is fully embedded within the curriculum for students’ cookery.

• To work collaboratively with HEaRT to embed the Trust’s Food and Nutrition policy and plan effective staff training.

• To actively promote the consistent use of biodynamic/organic produce.

• To be responsible for implementing, monitoring and managing food safety.

• To create an appropriate learning environment to support the learning and development needs of individual students, as well as groups of students.

• To develop both staff and students’ skills in respect of bread and cheese making with a focus on sourdough

breads, preserves, pickles and ferments.

Working at Ruskin Mill Trust is incredibly rewarding; we offer competitive salaries and holiday allowances, an auto-enrolment pension scheme with a salary sacrifice option, a health cash plan and employee assistance programme via Medicash.

In addition, staff receive valuable training opportunities including an in-depth interactive induction to enable our new team members to experience our Practical Skills Therapeutic Education (PSTE) curriculum and also opportunities for further training and academic research including our own MSc in Practical Skills Therapeutic Education.

Full details of our benefits can be viewed on www.rmt.org/careers

Grace Garden School is a specialist Steiner school located on an 18-acre smallholding on the outskirts of Bristol, offering a range of outdoor learning activities in practical land and craft work to support the education and development of children and young people. Grace Garden School is part of Ruskin Mill Trust.

Established in 1984, Ruskin Mill Trust is an educational charity that operates in England, Scotland and Wales. We offer exciting outdoor learning environments, utilising practical land and craft activities to support the development of work and life skills in young people with autistic spectrum conditions and other learning differences. Our research-led method, Practical Skills Therapeutic Education, is inspired by the work of Rudolf Steiner, John Ruskin and William Morris.

Working with hand, head, heart and place, Ruskin Mill Trust helps individuals to re-imagine their potential.

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Successful applicants will be required to undergo a Disclosure and Barring Service Enhanced Level Disclosure as

well as a medical check, references, evidence of qualifications, plus verification of the right to work in the UK.