Art and Design Technician
The Bulmershe School, Reading, Berkshire, RG5 3EU39 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
- Full time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- £22,033.00 - £23,484.00 Annually (Actual) Grade 4 SCP 7
Art and Design Technician job summary
Unleash your practical skills and help inspire the next generation of designers and creators at The Bulmershe School. We are looking for an energetic and highly organised Art, Design and Technology Technician to join our exceptionally successful Creative Arts Faculty, where our recent 3D Design results place us among the top performing schools nationally. This fixed term role is far more than a traditional school technician role, offering you the chance to support professional, industry informed workshop environments and work alongside a collaborative team dedicated to creative excellence.
Key responsibilities include:
- preparing and organising specialist materials, workshop tools and digital fabrication equipment, including 3D printers and laser cutters, to support our practical lessons.
- providing hands on support to teaching staff and students during dynamic workshop based learning activities across a range of creative processes.
- maintaining workshop tools, machinery and specialist equipment to a safe operational standard while managing stock and inventory schedules.
- supporting the implementation of health and safety procedures across all areas, including maintaining COSHH documentation, CLEAPSS guidance and British Standard compliance.
The ideal candidate will be 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. They will also be a proactive and relational team player who can use their initiative to solve problems independently, bring energy to our team and show 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
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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)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
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