What skills and experience we're looking for
Required for September 2025, an enthusiastic and qualified Design Technology/Food teacher. This is an exciting opportunity to join a dedicated and highly successful team and would suit a newly qualified or experienced teacher. The candidate will be required to teach Key Stage 3 and 4 Design Technology, Hospitality and Catering and Food Preparation and Nutrition.
Benefits include:
• CPD support from one of the largest Teaching Schools, the Sheffield Teacher Training Alliance, throughout your career.
• Opportunities to develop skills and experience as part of a growing, local Trust.
Chorus Education Trust is proud to support flexible working arrangements.
What the school offers its staff
Silverdale School is an extremely popular and high achieving 11-18 comprehensive inthe south west of Sheffield and is the founding school of Chorus Education Trust. Silverdale has 1,450 students on roll including 450 in Silverdale Sixth Form. In 2020 it was named the Sunday Times Top State Secondary School in the North of the Decade, in recognition of its sustained success.
Silverdale has an excellent record of student achievement at both key stage 4 and key stage 5. At our heart is one of the country’s original teaching school hubs, the South Yorkshire Teaching Hub, which includes the Sheffield Teacher Training Alliance and National Modern Languages SCITT.
At Silverdale, we benefit from a new building with excellent facilities, which was expanded in 2023 to provide further state of the art teaching facilities and a dedicated Sixth Form centre.
In addition to trust-wide benefits for all staff, those at Silverdale School also have access to:
• Supportive and friendly staff and leadership team.
• Free staff parking.
• Opportunity to be part of the varied extracurricular offering, including Duke of Edinburgh’s Award programme.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.