Art and Design Technician

The Bulmershe School, Reading, Berkshire, RG5 3EU

39 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  1st September 2026

• Closing date

  10 July 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  1 June 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £11,909.00 - £12,694.00 Annually (Actual) Grade 4 SCP 7

Art and Design Technician job summary

Unleash your passion for the creative arts and help inspire the next generation of artists and designers at The Bulmershe School. We are looking to appoint a flexible and self-motivated part-time Art and Design Technician to join our highly successful Creative Arts Faculty.

In this varied role, you will provide vital technical and administrative support across our thriving Art and Design Technology departments. Our faculty is a place where creativity meets excellence, with our recent GCSE results sitting in the top 25% of the country. You will work alongside a friendly team of six teachers and two technicians who value collaboration, staff wellbeing and continuous professional development. Whether you have previous experience in a school setting or a strong background in the creative industries, you will benefit from our bespoke coaching culture and a warm, inclusive community.

Key Responsibilities

• Practical Lesson Preparation: Preparing and organising specialist materials, workshop tools and digital fabrication equipment, including 3D printers and laser cutters, to support practical lessons.
• Classroom and Workshop Support: Providing hands on support to teaching staff and students during workshop-based learning activities across a range of creative processes.
• Equipment and Tool Maintenance: Maintaining workshop tools, machinery and specialist equipment to a safe operational standard while managing stock and inventory schedules.
• Health, Safety and Compliance: Supporting the implementation of health and safety procedures across all areas, including maintaining COSHH documentation, CLEAPSS guidance and British Standard compliance.

The Ideal Candidate would be

• Skilled and Experienced: A practical professional with experience in a workshop, fabrication or educational environment, possessing strong organisational skills and an understanding of tool maintenance and safe working practices.
• Proactive and Relational: A resilient team player who can communicate clearly with multiple stakeholders, use their initiative to solve problems independently and demonstrate a strong commitment to student safeguarding.

If you are an organised problem solver who wants to work in an environment where the arts play a central role in the curriculum, we would love to hear from you. Please take the time to look through our vacancy pack to find out more details about our school and this position. We look forward to receiving your application.

Why join The Bulmershe School

The Bulmershe School is a heavily oversubscribed school which sits at the heart of our community. We are a mixed Corvus Learning Trust Academy school of 1,500 students, who come from diverse backgrounds and cultures. We work closely with our parents, partners and feeder schools to achieve the best outcomes for all of our students.

We believe that The Bulmershe is a school where you can really make a difference. If you’d like to find out more about role, the school, or to talk to us about options for flexible working - call: 0118 935 3353 or email vbagley@bulmershe.wokingham.sch.uk to arrange to meet us for coffee and a chat.

The Bulmershe School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Appointments are subject to enhanced DBS clearance and satisfactory employment references. Note: This job description is not your contract of employment or any part of it. It has been prepared only for the purpose of school organisation and may change either as your contract changes or as the organisation of the school is changed. Nothing will be changed without consultation.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

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.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About The Bulmershe School

• School type: Academies, Does not apply, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 1506 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: The Bulmershe School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-bulmershe-school-reading

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