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  • Start date details

    Immediate

  • Closing date

    29 February 2024 at 9am

  • Date listed

    5 February 2024

Job details

Job role

  • Teaching assistant

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Part time

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

£23,194.00 Annually (FTE) Grade 3 SCP 9 - Part Time/ Term Time Only

Art/DT Technician job summary

Oakbank School is part of Anthem Schools Trust and is a small secondary school based in Reading, Berkshire, with a truly caring and supportive community ethos. Our students are at the heart of the school, and we are immensely proud of their achievements and of the great opportunities our school has to offer them. We are an ambitious and successful community, where all students are supported, valued, and provided with everything they need to thrive.

We are looking to recruit an individual to work with teachers as part of a professional team to support by providing technical assistance through the preparation and day-to-day maintenance of teaching areas and equipment for pupils. The post would suit a creative individual who enjoys working with materials in a 3D workshop/studio environment, somebody with Art, graphics/ Product design experience and CAD/ CAM qualifications.

Some of the main duties and responsibilities include;

  • Provide practical support to the teaching team.
  • Set up resources/materials/equipment for lessons
  • Safely and securely store allocated equipment and materials and equipment to prevent unauthorised access/misuse
  • Secure and work with hazardous materials
  • Provide clerical and administrative support as directed

For full details please see attached Job Description

What can Oakbank offer you?

  • The opportunity to make a difference in a thriving and growing school.
  • Membership of local government pension scheme.
  • Access to Employee Assistance Programme offering free confidential support on a range of issues such as work, wellbeing, money, health, and legal advice.
  • Cycle to work scheme enabling employees to purchase brand-new bicycles and cycling equipment via salary sacrifice, making tax and National Insurance savings.
  • Access to Health Shield Health Cash Plan, an optional scheme to pay a weekly or monthly premium to claim money back on everyday health care needs such as dentistry, optical and physical needs.

We reserve the right to close a vacancy early if a suitable candidate is found. Anthem will undertake a basic online check for all shortlisted candidates.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and require all staff and volunteers to share and demonstrate this commitment. The successful candidate will have to meet the requirements of the person specification and will be subject to the relevant pre-employment checks which will, where applicable, include a health check, an enhanced DBS check, the Children’s Barred List check and satisfactory references.

It is an offence for an individual who has been disqualified from working with children to knowingly apply for, offer to do, accept, or do any work in a ‘regulated activity’. The position advertised is a ‘regulated activity’.


Commitment to safeguarding

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and require all staff and volunteers to share and demonstrate this commitment. The successful candidate will have to meet the requirements of the person specification and will be subject to the relevant pre-employment checks which will, where applicable, include a health check, an enhanced DBS check, the Children’s Barred List check and satisfactory references.

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About Oakbank

School type
Free School, ages 11 to 16
Education phase
View all Secondaryjobs
School size
522 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 16

Oakbank school is a place where every student thrives and in which our values of integrity, collaboration and excellence shine through all that we do. Our students are at the heart of the school, and we are immensely proud of their achievements and of the great opportunities our school has to offer them. We are an ambitious and successful community, where all students are supported, valued, and provided with everything they need to thrive.

We are a truly caring and supportive school community in which every student is accepted and loved and where all students are encouraged to celebrate what makes them unique. We aim to provide the very best environment for success and our consistently high expectations drive Oakbank students to achieve personal excellence in all they do. We are incredibly proud of our wonderful school community.

We have made great strides in recent times to become a highly successful school and we will not rest in our ambition of being the best that we possibly can be.

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