Art Technician

Swavesey Village College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB24 4RS

10 days remaining to apply

Start date details
January 2025
Closing date
10 December 2024 at 9am
Date listed
28 November 2024

Job details

Job role: Other support roles
Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern: Part time
Contract type: Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary: £2,734.88 - £2,821.73 Annually (Actual) Grade 4 of the Meridian Trust Support Staff Salary Scale (£24,027 - £24,790 FTE)

Art Technician job summary

Salary: £2734.88 - £2821.73 (Actual)

Hours of work: 5 hours per week

We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and hardworking Art Technician to join our amazing SVC team.

The opportunity

Supporting teachers with lesson preparation and clearing up

Maintaining resources in classrooms for students and staff to use

Preparing art departments annual order with Head of Art

Archiving Year 11 work

Following training, use of the kiln to fire students work

The ideal candidate

Have a passion for Art.
Be a team player, with a ‘can do’ solution focused attitude.
Have great interpersonal skills; can communicate effectively with both staff and students.
Highly motivated, reliable and professional.

Benefits of working for us:

As a multi-academy trust of 30 schools, Meridian Trust can provide a wide network of opportunities for collaboration and career development for both teaching and support staff. With an initial teaching training facility and a teaching hub network within our Trust, there are ample opportunities to both, get into teaching, and develop within the profession.

As well as the above we also offer:

Unlimited access to CPD via Meridian Learning

Free annual eye tests

Access to a free Employee Assistance Programme, offering mental health and wellbeing support

Unlimited value cycle to work scheme

Swavesey Village College was judged to be Outstanding in all categories by Ofsted in May 2024. Ofsted report that ‘Swavesey Village College is a welcoming, inclusive school with high ambitions for all’, and that ‘Leaders have created a vibrant, successful school where all are welcome and all can succeed’. Moreover, they feel ‘The curriculum for personal development is exemplary’. The achievements of our students are remarkable, both academically in examination success, and across an incredibly wide range of sports, arts and other co-curricular areas.

Swavesey is a village community school located close to Cambridge with excellent transport links to Cambridge and the pretty market town of St Ives, however, we have a considerable local and national reputation for academic excellence and innovation as part of our Academy Trust – Meridian Trust.

Meridian Trust is a successful multi-academy trust founded on its commitment to people and communities.

Our proven approach over more than a decade has elevated us to a respected and admired academy trust, a national leader in education and a source of great pride to the communities we serve. The Trust currently operates 30 schools across Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Peterborough, Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire and has forged strong links within all these communities. We are committed to high quality professional development and career opportunities for all staff. To find out more about the Trust, please visit: www.meridiantrust.co.uk

For more information about the role please download the Applicant Information Pack below.

Closing date for applications is: 10th December 2024 9am

Interview to take place on: TBC

The Trust is committed to diversity and inclusion and equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All appointments will be subject to pre-employment checks, including an enhanced check with the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS), as well as online searches.

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.