Art & Textiles Technician
Hall Green School, Birmingham, West Midlands, B28 0AA16 days remaining to apply
Closing date
21 August 2025 at 9am
Date listed
9 July 2025
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Grade 2, Point 3-8 £24,027.00 - £25,992.00 (actual £12,660.00 - £14,012.00)
Art & Textiles Technician job summary
You will be required to work 22.2 hours per week excluding a 30-minute unpaid lunch, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, term-time only.
The successful candidate will be a reliable, enthusiastic and flexible team-player who can communicate well with staff and pupils alike. The duties and responsibilities attached to this post are as follows:
- Pre-prepare materials e.g clay, paints, paper and cloth for all practical lessons.
- Wash all equipment thoroughly and maintain clean and tidy sinks.
- Arrange for towels and cloths to be washed as needed.
- Tidy and maintain store cupboards and storage areas.
- Order stock as required and check deliveries carefully when they arrive.
- Check the department budget regularly with the Finance Assistant.
- Assist with photography and computer-based projects (where appropriate).
- Support in lessons when required and help pupils with practical and research tasks.
- Photocopy and scan work and make up booklets for exams and homework tasks.
- Mount and display student work in the department and create displays about specific events and processes.
- Repair aprons by using the sewing machine.
- Help to hang and organise the final exhibition.
- Maintenance of the guillotines and laminator in the staff room
Hall Green School is a very popular, heavily oversubscribed and academically successful 11-16 academy. We are a highly diverse institution, both ethnically and as a fully accessible mainstream school, attracting pupils from across the city with physical disabilities. We have wonderful pupils who fully contribute to the school’s caring, nurturing and inclusive culture: “Pupils live up to the school’s values of ‘learning with compassion, ambition, responsibility and excellence’. Pupils behave well and have positive attitudes to their work.” (Ofsted 2025)
The school is part of the newly formed West Midlands Academy Trust (WMAT) which opened in January 2025. As one of the three founding members, the school has been integral to forming the Trust’s mission:
- Relentless focus upon delivering an excellent Quality of Education, resulting in strong progress and attainment for all groups of pupils.
- Emphasis upon personal development and well-being for staff and pupils.
Most importantly, we are looking for a candidate who shares the school’s approach and commitment to the success and wellbeing of its young people. You are warmly invited to speak to the Headteacher and to make an appointment to visit the school in action.
This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) and therefore the ability to speak and write fluently in English is an essential requirement for this role.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020). This means that certain convictions and cautions are considered 'protected' and do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974.
I strongly recommend you visit the school to meet us and find out more about the role. Please contact my PA, Mrs Paula Elliott, to arrange a convenient time.
WMAT is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of its pupils and expects all those working at the School to share this commitment. If you are shortlisted online searches may be carried out as part of due diligence checks (i.e. Google and Social Media Platforms). The successful applicant will be subject to the following checks: enhanced DBS, Childcare Disqualification (where applicable), a prohibition from teaching (where applicable), qualifications (where applicable), medical fitness, identity and right to work. All applicants will also be required to provide two suitable references.
The closing date for applications is 9.00 am on Thursday 21 August 2025.
Please note that all applicants must complete the school’s application form only via My New Term. Any other form of application or CVs alone will not be accepted.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
WMAT is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of its pupils and expects all those working at the School to share this commitment. If you are shortlisted online searches may be carried out as part of due diligence checks (i.e. Google and Social Media Platforms). The successful applicant will be subject to the following checks: Enhanced DBS, Childcare Disqualification (where applicable), a prohibition from teaching (where applicable), qualifications (where applicable), medical fitness, identity and right to work. All applicants will also be required to provide two suitable references.
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 Hall Green School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 907 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Hall Green School website
Hall Green School is a very popular, heavily oversubscribed and academically successful 11-16 Converter Academy. We are a highly diverse institution, both ethnically and as a fully accessible mainstream school, attracting pupils from across the city with physical disabilities. We have wonderful pupils who fully contribute to the school’s ‘caring, nurturing and inclusive culture’ described by Ofsted (2019) as ‘a welcoming and inclusive school’ where ‘pupils are happy, and they achieve well’ and the ‘positive relationships between pupils and staff are a hallmark of the school’.
The school is part of the newly formed West Midlands Academy Trust (WMAT) which opened in January 2025. As one of the three founding members, the school has been integral to forming the Trust’s mission:
• Relentless focus upon delivering an excellent Quality of Education, resulting in strong progress and attainment for all groups of pupils.
• Emphasis upon personal development and well-being for staff and pupils.
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