Hospitality and Catering Teacher

JOB TITLE: Hospitality and Catering Teacher

CLOSING DATE: 27/11/2026

START DATE: As soon as possible

SALARY: MPS 1 £34,069 to MPS 6 £46,940 plus Teacher Pension Scheme

LOCATION: Oasis Restore secure school in Rochester, Medway, Kent.

• Do you enjoy sharing your knowledge and expertise?
• Do you have experience working as a qualified caterer?
• Do you see relationships as fundamental to your work with children, families, and the wider community?
• Do you want to be a part of an innovative and courageous team developing the UK’s first secure school?

We are offering an exciting opportunity a teacher of Hospitality and Catering to join the team in contributing to and delivering an outstanding curriculum at the UK’s first secure school.

Oasis Restore represents a revolution in youth justice: an opportunity for children within the criminal justice system to experience a truly restorative environment, that creates the potential for them to thrive in the future. You will be key to delivering a curriculum that provides nurturing, therapeutic and educational community that embeds hope, stability, and opportunity for children in our care. Come and develop your career within an organisation dedicated to transforming lives. 

The role and what we are looking for?

Your role as a Hospitality and Catering Teacher will be integral to improving outcomes for children with complex and often unmet educational needs. You will deliver an ambitious, inclusive curriculum that develops practical cooking skills, knowledge of food safety and nutrition, and an understanding of the hospitality industry. Your teaching will meet the needs of children who may have experienced disrupted education, persistent non-attendance, trauma, special educational needs and disabilities, speech, language and communication difficulties, and social, emotional and mental health needs. Through high-quality teaching, strong relationships and an understanding of each child’s strengths and barriers, you will support children to re-engage with learning and achieve meaningful progress from their individual starting points.

Working closely with the SENDCo and wider multidisciplinary team, you will help children develop practical expertise, teamwork, communication and confidence, supporting both future employment and independent living. Teaching small classes with additional adult support, you will place restorative and relational practice at the heart of your work, preparing children for a range of next steps, including further education, training, employment in hospitality and catering, supported provision and independent adulthood.

Our Secure School

Oasis Restore is the UK’s first secure school that is a proof-of-concept policy initiative funded by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) and the Youth Custody Service. Oasis Restore’s mission is to transform the life chances of children aged 12-18 years in the criminal justice system through delivering psychologically informed, integrated practice that centres on trusted, safe relationships between staff and children. Oasis Restore is a learning community that embeds hope, stability, and opportunity for children beyond the secure school. To read more about us please visit our website www.oasisrestore.org.

Benefits to Staff

As a newly established subsidiary of the Oasis Charitable Trust, you enjoy the benefit of being part of a national organisation that aims to support all staff to reach their full potential and a once in a lifetime opportunity to create, develop and grow a new collaborative and innovative values-based organisation.

• Funded access to Westfield Health, our Employee Assistance Programme
• Enrolment onto Teacher Pension Scheme (TPS)
• Integrated training, group reflective practice and development including a comprehensive induction programme
• Small class/ group sizes
• 40 days annual leave
• Additional non-contact time
• Support and sharing best practice within Oasis Academies and partners
• Season ticket loans
• Cycle to work
• Free car parking
• Comprehensive MMPR training
• Subject to meeting basic eligibility criteria, be entitled to up to 8 weeks full-pay and 18 weeks half-pay paid maternity/adoption/shared parental leave (based broadly on the NHS Employers scheme). 3 weeks fully paid paternity leave.
• Supportive sick leave pay (based broadly on the length of service framework in the national ‘Green Book’ framework) from Day 1 of employment. Up to 5 days discretionary paid compassionate/emergency/general leave plus further discretionary unpaid leave
• Up to 4 weeks paid parental bereavement leave plus up to 5 days paid bereavement leave for the death of other specified close relatives.
• Blue Light Card (subject to meeting their eligibility criteria)
• Expenses and travel costs incurred as part of the working day (as appropriate, not including travel to work)

What are you waiting for? Apply today

Make sure you download the Application Pack and fill out our application form along with the Equal opportunities form* and submit both documents to recruitment@oasisrestore.org before the below deadline.

Please note, while we welcome all passionate education staff to apply for our teaching roles, under government guidance, we will not be able offer statutory induction for Early Career Teachers (ECT). If you are unsure whether you have the teaching experience required, please don’t be put off from applying and get in touch for an informal discussion.

Please email us at recruitment@oasisrestore.org to arrange a confidential phone call.

Safeguarding and Pre-Employment Checks

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff to share this commitment. All successful candidates will be subject to Disclosure and Barring Service checks along with other relevant employment checks including references and right to work checks. It is an offence to apply for a role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.

This post is also covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) and therefore the ability to speak fluent and spoken English is an essential requirement for this role.

Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion

At Oasis Restore we recognise that our team is strengthened by the knowledge, experience and insights people from a wide range of backgrounds can bring. These beliefs and values are underpinned by decades of work and experience that Oasis has had in a wide range of sectors including education, housing and youth-work supported further by a wide range of independent research and studies elsewhere which evidence that creating teams with diverse experience and perspectives, and encouraging healthy debate, reduces the risk of ‘blind spots’ that often form barriers to success.

Oasis Restore aim is to attract and retain the very best diverse talent and role models to help create an innovative, caring and extraordinary working environment for our staff, that enables us to deliver exceptional, caring and psychologically informed learning experience for our students. We would therefore like to encourage applications from people with varied skillsets, life experiences, and from different backgrounds and sectors to help shape Oasis Restore. If you can demonstrate some of the criteria and believe you have what it takes, then we’d love to hear from you.

Given the nature of our work we also welcome applications from candidates with the following lived experience:

• Experience of working successfully with challenging people who have multiple and complex needs.
• Personal experience of the criminal justice system, or lived experience of the issues facing this client group (i.e. involved in gangs or knife crime).
• Knowledge of the issues facing this client group, such as gangs, knife crime, social exclusion and isolation, child criminal exploitation, adverse childhood experiences and trauma.
• Ability to actively listen and motivate young people.
• Ability to be a positive role model, demonstrating the virtues of a crime-free life to young people.

We’re also very happy to answer any questions you may have so please don’t hesitate to get in touch at recruitment@oasisrestore.org.

*The Equal Opportunities Form will not be shared with anyone involved in processing your application. Please complete this as part of the application process. Please note that if you have a disability and you require this form or submitting the information with regard to this form in another format, such as in larger print, please contact the People Services team.