Subject Lead - Food & Nutrition

Required for January 2027

MPS/UPS plus TLR 2a (£3,527 - pay award pending)

Full time

Closing Date: Sunday 18 October

Interview Date: Wednesday 21 October

Ready to shape the future of Food Education?

We are seeking an inspirational, creative, and ambitious Food Lead to take full ownership of our Food and Nutrition curriculum from Key Stage 3 right through to Level 3 Food Science and Nutrition. This is a brilliant opportunity to put your personal stamp on a subject that genuinely changes lives.

Whether you are inspiring future chefs and food scientists or instilling a lifelong passion for healthy, sustainable, home-cooked food, you will have the freedom and support to elevate our curriculum to the next level.

What you’ll bring to the role:

Curriculum Leadership: The vision and energy to design an inspiring, progressive Year 7–13 curriculum.

Academic Ambition: A drive to deliver Level 3 Food Science & Nutrition and raise attainment for every learner.

Practical Innovation: A flair for bridging theory and hands-on culinary skills through high-impact practical lessons.

Student Empowerment: A belief in building independent, confident cooks who aren't afraid to innovate, take creative risks, and learn through doing.

Why Writhlington Design & Technology?

You’ll join a forward-thinking, highly supportive D&T department that views food education as a vital 21st-century life skill. We prioritise real-world problem solving, sustainability, and career pathways. In our department, practical risk-taking is celebrated, individuality is nurtured and creative voices thrive.

If you are ready to lead a subject that inspires, challenges, and sets students up for life, we would love to hear from you.

Writhlington School is a good school with a strong reputation of putting the needs of our students at the heart of what we do. Recent academic outcomes have been strong and competitive, indicating excellence in teaching and learning. This also reflects our strength in relation to pastoral care as excellent outcomes are an indicator of happy, healthy and safe students.

The school values of Respect, Resilience, Ambition, Kindness, Confidence and Success enable our students to develop as future leaders in the community and further afield. Our consistent expectations on behaviour, attendance and the wish for our students to be ambassadors for our school are all driven through our values.

Writhlington School benefits from a well-resourced, large, and modern purpose built campus with exceptional facilities to support artistic development.

We offer both staff and students opportunities to get involved outside the classroom through a wide and varied range of extra-curricular activities, including a Combined Cadet Force, our world famous Orchid club, trips to Rome, Iceland, France, Belgium and many other trip and activities. Please see our website for more information.

We are proud to be part of Midsomer Norton Schools’ Partnership and you will work alongside the Lead for Design and Technology across the Trust.

If you would like to work in a collaborative, forward-thinking and supportive school environment, we look forward to receiving your application.

Please contact Nathan Marshall, Operations Manager if you require further information.

Writhlington School, Knobsbury Lane, Radstock, Bath BA3 3NQ.