Kitchen Assistants

We are seeking a Kitchen Assistant to work in our kitchen. Start date September 2023.

Hours of work are:

1.5 hours each day in the kitchen, from around 12noon to around 1.30pm (flexible)

This role is term time only and paid at at £10.90 per hour – exact details to be agreed.

For more details please call our Facilities and Services Manager at school.

To apply please complete an Application Form.

Closing date for applications 7th July 2023. Interviews will be held in July prior to starting in September.

Cumbria Futures Federation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. Successful applicants will be required to undertake an enhanced check with regulated activity via the Disclosure and Barring Service.

TEACHER OF SCIENCE (Maternity Leave) Mainscale (1.0FTE)

At Cumbria Futures Federation we work at the heart of our communities. Our small secondary schools are inclusive, welcoming and ambitious. With a wide range of abilities in each class and a broad and balanced curriculum, our ‘Good’ schools punch well above their weight and provide a unique experience for our students.

We are seeking a full time Teacher of Science to join our small and friendly team in late October 2023 to cover the maternity absence of our Head of Science. We positively welcome applications from colleagues at all stages in their career. We offer a supportive leadership team, a professional research approach to CPD, a strong ethos of pastoral support and extra-curricular learning and opportunities to contribute to ongoing school improvement and leadership.

This role is working across both Solway Community School and Beacon Hill Community School, teaching Biology, Chemistry and Physics across the age and ability range. As you would expect in small schools with a family ethos, we all pitch in to ensure our students are taught well and supported superbly.

Our small, friendly schools provide excellent opportunities to be involved in school-wide activities as well as the challenge of teaching across the age and ability range. You will be ambitious and inspirational in the classroom, determined to ensure all learners achieve, whatever their ability. We will give you excellent support whatever stage you are at in your career, with the freedom to be creative and innovative in the classroom and to take on a breadth of responsibilities that are not always available in larger schools.

If you feel you share our values, then we would like to hear from you. For an informal conversation about the role and what it is like working for us, please contact the school office to arrange a chat with our Headteacher or Deputy Headteacher.

Job Description

TO APPLY

To apply please complete our application form and send, along with a covering letter, to office@solway.cumbria.sch.uk or beaconhill@beaconhill.cumbria.sch.uk

Complete the application form here: Application Form

Closing date for applications 22nd September 2023.

Part Time Technician – Technology, Food and Art

Flexible hours per week (max 6-8), 39 weeks per year term time only – Zero hours contract
(plus up to 3 additional weeks if required)
Salary to be discussed.

The two small secondary schools within Cumbria Futures Federation are inclusive, welcoming and ambitious. With a wide range of abilities in each class and an innovative curriculum, our ‘Good’ schools punch well above their weight and provide a unique experience for our students.

We are seeking a Part Time Technician to support our Design Technology (Resistant Materials, Food Technology) and Art teaching across both of our schools. As Technician, you will be willing to get stuck in with both supporting and helping students in classes and also preparing materials for practical lessons. Supporting students might involve supervising use of machinery such as bench drills, scroll saws and CAD/CAM machines including our laser cutter and 3D printer. Preparing materials might include making jigs and patterns, cutting and shaping materials ready for students to use, buying resources locally (e.g. food ingredients) or preparing art materials ready for lessons.

Experience of safely using and maintaining electrical equipment such as routers, bandsaws (preferably with appropriate certification of competence) and DIY type equipment is preferred although training will be provided. Awareness of health and safety considerations is essential, as is being willing to work with students and to appreciate and support differences in ability.

In addition, you will part of our site management team and support the general maintenance of the school when required and your workload allows. If needed by the school, additional work may also be available during holiday periods (up to 3 weeks).

We positively welcome applications from colleagues at all stages in their career. If you feel you share our values, then we would like to hear from you.

This is an ongoing advertisement.

At Cumbria Futures Federation we work at the heart of our communities, preparing our students to thrive in their future communities. In our schools, everyone is engaged in making continuous progress in a safe, inclusive and ambitious environment. We have the moral courage to live our values and do the right thing for our students.

Job Description – Technology Technician

TO APPLY

Complete the application form here: Application Form

Send with a covering letter outlining why you are the right person for this job to:

beaconhill@beaconhill.cumbria.sch.uk

Safeguarding our students is vitally important to us. Our safeguarding policy underpins everything we do.

Our vacancies are usually also advertised on the Cumbria County Council website:

https://www.cumbria.gov.uk/jobsandcareers/schoolsearch.asp

Relief Kitchen Assistants and Cleaners – Casual hours

We are seeking Relief Kitchen Assistants and Cleaners to work flexibly covering absence, illness and holidays across both of our schools in Silloth and Aspatria. Rate of pay £9.90 per hour.

TO APPLY

Complete the application form here: Application Form

Send with a covering letter outlining why you are the right person for this job to:

office@solway.cumbria.sch.uk

Safeguarding our students is vitally important to us. Our safeguarding policy underpins everything we do.

Other policies and notices:

All posts involving direct contact with children are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974 and the successful applicant will be required to hold or undergo a suitable enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service disclosure. However, amendments to the ROA 1974 (Exceptions Order 1975 (2013 & 2020)) provide that certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’. These are not subject to disclosure to employers and cannot be considered. Guidance and criteria on the filtering of these cautions and convictions can be found on the Ministry of Justice website or via the Unlock website.

Short-listed candidates will be asked to complete a criminal record self-disclosure form to provide details of all unspent convictions and those that would not be filtered or protected, to be returned to the school prior to the date of the interview. You may be asked for further information about your criminal history during the recruitment process. If your application is successful, this criminal record self-disclosure information will be checked against information from the Disclosure & Barring Service before your appointment is confirmed.

In addition to the above, the school reserves the right to carry out an online search on short-listed candidates. This will only include a search for information which is publicly available online. Please note it is an offence to apply for the role if the applicant is barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.

As part of the Prevent strategy our Federation promotes Fundamental British Values that reflect life in modern Britain.

These 4 fundamental British values are:

Democracy
Rule of Law
Respect & Tolerance
Individual Liberty

Fundamental British Values underpin what it is to be a citizen in a modern and diverse Great Britain valuing our community and celebrating the diversity of the UK. Fundamental British Values are not exclusive to being British and are shared by other democratic countries as a way of creating an orderly society, where individual members can feel safe, valued and can contribute for the good of themselves and others. Our values mirror the Fundamental British Values and underpin everything we do in our schools. Our recruitment process will ensure that successful candidates uphold our values and therefore Fundamental British Values.

Privacy Notice for Staff

Recruitment of Ex-Offenders (Safer Recruitment and Criminal Convictions)

Safeguarding policy