Head of Food & Preparation and Child Development

Job type: Full Time, Permanent Start date: 01 September 2025 Apply by: 24 April 2025 HEAD OF FOOD & PREPARATION AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT

TLR 2c (currently £8,279 per annum)

Join Hazelwick – a popular, highly-successful and happy community where our students enjoy learning and teachers enjoy teaching, where Ofsted judged us to be outstanding in all areas (October 2023).

Our shared vision is “for each and every student to achieve their maximum potential.”

Ofsted ‘Outstanding’ October 2023

Salary: £33,075 – £50,471 per annum

MPR/UPR including Fringe Area Allowance

Recruitment incentives of up to £10,000 may be available for suitable candidates

Hazelwick is a high achieving and oversubscribed 11-18 mixed secondary school with 1500 students in Years 7 – 11 and 383 students in the 6th form.

As one of the highest performing schools in West Sussex, with a Progress 8 score of 0.30, (2024) we have an unwavering focus on enabling our students to achieve their maximum potential.

Hazelwick is an outstanding school. According to our recent outstanding Ofsted reports (2022 & 2023), Hazelwick is a school

• which is very successful, welcoming and ambitious
• which is kind and caring, with remarkably strong relationships between staff and pupils
• where you can see and feel the shared values of respect and responsibility in and out of lessons
• where there is a remarkable sense of community
• where staff have extremely high expectations
• where pupils behave impeccably
• where pupils from diverse backgrounds work extremely well together to achieve very high standards
• with confident learners who focus especially hard in lessons and use lesson time extremely well
• where pupils ‘thrive’ and ‘flourish’
• where pupils achieve exceptionally well in national examinations
• which is a safe and inspiring place to learn
• where the school motto ‘effort achieves’ pervades all aspects of school life
• where staff at all levels speak very highly of the support and professional development they receive
• where staff ‘love working’
  
  

Food And Nutrition At Hazelwick Is

• taught by a superb team of highly skilled, supportive and dedicated staff
• level 3 Food Science and Nutrition taught in the sixth form
• a popular KS4 subject with four exam groups in Year 11 in Food, Preparation and Nutrition and Child Development and six groups in both Year 9 and 10.
• an extremely supportive and collaborative staff team
• supported by a dedicated food technician
  
  

For September 2025, We Are Looking For

• an experienced and exceptional mentor, with the vision and drive to lead our talented and enthusiastic department
• an outstanding and innovative teacher who is passionate about teaching and learning and is committed to excellence and high student achievement
• a skilled practitioner with the ability to teach across all key stages, enabling students of all abilities to reach their maximum potential
• a teacher with a passion for working with young people and a perseverance to make a difference to them and their future
• a teacher with a focus on their own professional development and a drive to work with us to become the best teacher they can be
• Hazelwick School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and communicates a clear framework to employees. Safeguarding is a key aspect of every role and all staff must have read and be fully aware of the Child Protection Policy. This post is subject to an Enhanced DBS check.
  
  

Visits to the school are welcome. Please email recruitment@hazelwick.org.uk to arrange a tour of the school or for further information about the post.

Please return your completed application form by midnight on Thursday 24th April 2025..

You are encouraged to submit your application form, by email, as soon as possible, as there may be occasions where we will close a vacancy and interview once sufficient applications have been received.