Food Technician

Food Technician

College location: East Surrey College (Redhill)

Salary: £27,780.48 pro rated to £14,587.96 for 3 days a week (Term time only)

Working Pattern: Term Time Only – 38 Weeks per Year

Hours: 8:45 am - 5 pm

We are seeking an enthusiastic and organised Food Technician to support the delivery of our Life Skills curriculum. This is an exciting opportunity to work alongside the Life Skills Lecturer, helping students develop practical cooking, nutrition, food hygiene, and independent living skills.

As Food Technician, you will play a key role in preparing and maintaining the learning environment for practical food sessions. You will support students in developing essential life skills through food preparation, cooking, healthy eating, and kitchen safety activities.

If you are passionate about food, education, and helping learners develop valuable life skills, we would love to hear from you.

The successful candidate must have

• Essential and up to date industry knowledge of Food Handling
• Practical/industry experience in Educational setting
• Experience of working with young people
• Maths & English GCSE / Level 2 equivalent

If this sounds like you and you will enjoy working in a forward thinking, friendly, fast paced, changing environment with state of the art facilities, we would love to hear from you. In return, we offer a competitive salary, as well as staff benefits such a choice of two excellent pension schemes, a brilliant holiday package, free onsite parking and access to our fully equipped gym along with discounted in house Spa and Salon treatments.

• Applications will however be shortlisted on a rolling basis and we reserve the right to interview and appoint before this closing date. We therefore encourage you to apply at the earliest opportunity to avoid disappointment. As much as we would love to respond to all applicants, due to the sheer volume of applications we receive we are unable to respond to all unsuccessful candidates.

Please refer to the attached Job Description, Person Specification and Competency Framework and apply using the button below.

Orbital South Colleges Group are committed to Equal Opportunities, encouraging applications from all sectors of the community to reflect our diverse student population. We are also committed to PREVENT and Safeguarding the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Both College Campus’ are smoke-free zones.

As part of our pre-employment checks, successful candidates will be required to complete an enhanced DBS, references will be taken and evidence of all qualifications and awards will also be required before commencement of employment. Failure to do so may lead to offers being withdrawn.

Applicants must be eligible to work in the UK as we do not sponsor work permits, and work permits from other organisations are unacceptable as proof of right to work in the UK.