Apprentice Physics Technician
Torquay Boys' Grammar School, Torquay, Devon, TQ2 7ELThis job expired on 1 April 2025 – see similar jobs
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
1 April 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
11 March 2025
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: 30 hours per Week (9-3.30 or similar within the school day, Mon-Fri) 38 weeks per year (term time).
Contract type
- Fixed term - expected 24 months, with permanent position available after completing apprenticeship
Full-time equivalent salary
- £23556
Actual salary
- 30 hours, 38 weeks (term time only) = £16150
Hourly rate
- £12.21
What skills and experience we're looking for
Torquay Boys’ Grammar School is looking to appoint an organised, efficient, and reliable team player to assist in the physics department as an apprentice technician. This is an exciting opportunity to join a team of scientists who love their subject and engaging students in a hands-on approach to discovery.
What the school offers its staff
- Supportive work environment.
- Competitive pay and conditions, with support staff receiving the same annual % pay uplift awarded to teaching staff.
- Health care provided by Simply Health.
- Free staff parking.
Further details about the role
You will be completing a Level 3 Laboratory Technician qualification whilst working. You will be supported by expertise within the department, and an external training provider to develop the following skills:
- Comply with health and safety policies and procedures including HASWA, COSHH, risk assessments, use of personal protective equipment (PPE), manual handling, emergency procedures.
- Maintain excellent housekeeping, in accordance with organisation Standard Procedures
- Order and control stocks of laboratory materials where required
- Identify, organise and use resources effectively to complete tasks applying the concepts of resource efficiency e.g energy, water and waste
- Adhere to internal and external regulatory requirements e.g. GLP, GMP, GDP
- Prepare for, and perform, laboratory experiments, tests or tasks following any specified methodologies to provide reliable, accurate data e.g. weighing, pipetting, filtering, spectroscopic techniques, chromatography techniques
- Demonstrate technical competence in the use of specified instruments and equipment
- Report faults and seek diagnostic advice to maintain equipment in good working order, including calibration where required
- Complete documentation proficiently
- Keep accurate records of laboratory work undertaken and results
- Contribute to the preparation of reports.
- Use simple statistical techniques for data presentation and evaluation e. g calculation of median and standard deviation, production of graphs
- Demonstrate problem solving techniques including identification of sources of error and how they can be reduced e.g. human error
- Use standard software packages and applications e.g. Microsoft Office suite
- Use Laboratory Information Management systems to support their work
- Address non-routine problems with samples and instrumentation, within defined areas
- Identify relevant information from scientific sources e.g. supervisors, literature etc. in order to contribute to solutions
- Participate in continuous performance improvement of systems and processes relevant to the work environment e.g. workplace organisation techniques, accreditation (e.g. ISO, UKAS) and proficiency testing
- Evaluate data, recognise and call attention to anomalous or unusual results.
This is a fixed-termcontract to complete the apprenticeship qualification (expected to be 24 months).
Upon successful completion, there will be permanent technician role available to you, at 25 hours per week.
Commitment to safeguarding
Torquay Boys' Grammar School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people.
This responsibility falls to all staff and as such safeguarding training is provided upon commencement of employment, with regular and annual updates.
All applicants must be aware they will be subject to enhanced DBS and child protection checks.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Torquay Boys' Grammar School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1093 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Torquay Boys' Grammar School website
- Email address
- enquiries@tbgs.torbay.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01803 615501
Do you believe that young people should be inspired to ‘Dare to Be’? Or ‘Dare to Dream’? Or just ‘Dare to ….? This is the TBGS mantra and says everything about the aspirations that we wish for our students.
We are an academically selective school set on a beautiful, green site on the edge of Torquay in South Devon, producing outstanding examination results, but we are also known as a school that dares to provide a truly holistic education for our young people together with a strong pastoral commitment to the well-being of both students and staff.
Since 1904, we have been educating able boys and since 2010 have extended our intake to able girls in the Sixth Form. The feedback we have received, and the evidence of our students’ excellent examination results, suggest that we are continuing to provide a first-class education.
Our TBGS students are encouraged to enjoy learning for its own sake, developing creative talents and fulfilling their intellectual potential; our caring environment and strong pastoral system nurtures this academic excellence.
Dare to join us!
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