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Senior Teaching Assistant

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Brentwood Ursuline Convent High School

Brentwood Ursuline Convent High School

Brentwood

Assistant Headteacher (Head of Sixth Form)

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Keyham Barton Catholic Primary School

Keyham Barton Catholic Primary School

Plymouth

Headteacher

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St James' Catholic High School

St James' Catholic High School

Technician for Creative Technology and Expressive Arts

Job overview

Technician

Cheadle, Cheshire

Start date: As soon as possible

Salary: Scale 3 £24,790 - £25,183 pro rata (actual £6,590 - £6,695)

Contract term: Part Time, Permanent

About the Role

Purpose

As a technician you will commonly take responsibility for:

  • preparing equipment and teaching areas for practical classes;
  • maintaining equipment and teaching areas;
  • ensuring a safe classroom environment;
  • supporting teachers in practical classes;
  • helping students to obtain the most out of their learning experiences;
  • carrying out administrative and other tasks related to the smooth running of the department.
  • using and maintaining a range of workshop tools, equipment and machinery
  • risk assessments and COSHH
  • preparation of materials and ingredients while also ensuring all are in date

  

Principal Accountabilities Practical Tasks

  • Prepare equipment for practical lessons, organise necessary practical equipment to ensure that the correct resources are available for lessons.
  • To assist when required in practical lessons to support staff and children to help with maintaining health and safety
  • Supporting individual children during a practical activity;
  • Modifying apparatus and equipment for those children with physical disabilities.

 

Administrative Tasks

  • Order equipment to ensure that the resources are available for lessons to enable demonstrations and practical lessons to run smoothly
  • Photocopying, printing and duplicating
  • Reporting any equipment or other maintenance issues  promptly to your line manager
  • Health and Safety audits, checks, reporting, servicing, ordering, repairs

 

Scope for Impact

The post holder is responsible for all equipment and ingredients and needs to ensure they are in date, are used safely and are fit for use in the various lessons.

 

General responsibilities:

  • To become familiar with the school procedures and regulations as set out in the staff handbook and other documentation, as appropriate to the responsibilities and to follow these.
  • To implement the school’s health & safety policy currently in force and assist with safeguarding the health and safety of children when they are on the school premises.
  • To participate in arrangements for the appraisal of your performance.
  • To carry out such other duties as the Head of Faculty or Headteacher may from time to time reasonably determine.

 

Line Manager Responsibilities:

The line manager will give guidance on:

  • working with teaching staff;
  • confidentiality of some work within school (pupil circumstances and assessments);
  • supporting teaching and learning and helping children with their practical work;
  • maintaining safe working procedures and the approach to risk assessments;
  • setting up and maintaining displays

 

Other Specific Duties

Whilst every effort has been made to explain the main duties and responsibilities of the post, each individual task

undertaken may not be identified. It is not a comprehensive statement of procedures and tasks, but sets out the main expectations of the school in relation to the post holder’s professional responsibilities and duties. This post is subject to Enhanced DBS disclosure.

The post holder will be expected to comply with all reasonable requests from the Headteacher to undertake work of a similar level that is not specified in their job description. This post is subject to Enhanced DBS disclosure and basic online checks

What the school offers its staff

St James’ Catholic High School aims to ensure everyone within our school family achieves their full potential, to encourage learning and development through faith, and to strive for excellence

Commitment to safeguarding

St James’ Catholic High School is an equal opportunity employer which is “Positive about Disabled People”. Whilst all applicants will be judged on merit alone, we particularly welcome applications from groups currently under-represented in the workforce, who meet the person specification for the post

St James’ Catholic High School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure & Barring Service.

Applying for the job

Please download the application form, and once completed send to headteacherpa@stjamescheadle.co.uk

CVs are not accepted.

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Scale 3 £24,790 - £25,183 pro rata (actual £6,590 - £6,695)

Part Time, Permanent

Start date: As soon as possible

Apply by 28/04/2025, 11:00