Design Technology Technician
Amersham School, Amersham, Buckinghamshire, HP7 9HH10 days remaining to apply
Start date details
1st September 2025
Closing date
27 June 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
17 June 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subject
- Design Technology
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- £13,202.00 Annually (Actual) £28,129 FTE
Design Technology Technician job summary
- To provide technical support to the Design Technology department.
- Support the Subject Leader, prioritising all Health & Safety issues to create a safe and secure environment for staff and students.
- Practical teaching areas, tools, machines and equipment to be checked on a weekly basis, including checking the ventilation pressure in the cutting room and hoovering the dust and clearing the sawdust from machines. Saw blades to be checked on a daily basis. The Laser Cutter also to be cleaned and maintained.
- The candidate will be responsible for the cutting of resources for KS3 at the beginning of each rotation and for KS4 more frequently, and to order, once GCSE practical begins.
- Order materials and equipment, as required by the Teacher
- Act on proposals from SLT to ensure Health & Safety compliance.
- Other related jobs, such as tidying up and setting out equipment, as required by the Teacher. The candidate will need to tidy, bin and declutter after each rotation.
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 are not accepted.
About Amersham School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1051 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Amersham School website
Amersham School is a student centred, rapidly improving mixed 11-18 Community School of 920 students with 132 students in our thriving 6th Form.
Our students are encouraged to become well-rounded and broad-minded individuals and we support this through a diverse range of extra-curricular activities. As a Business and Enterprise specialist we focus on the development of skills which inspire and motivate our students to become successful and confident adults.
Amersham School looks forward to an exciting and promising future. Our students achieve good examination results at both GCSE and A Level. We are consistently one of the top performing Upper Schools in the County, making sure that our students have the personal qualifications and qualities to access Post-16 education and training. We are incredibly proud of our students and welcome the opportunity to work with and learn from those who share our dedication to innovation, improvement and success.
Please visit our school website where you will find a wealth of information about our vision and our mission statement ‘Live, Learn and Succeed – Together’ where our values of mutual respect, honesty and integrity, responsibility and ownership, equality and co-operation alongside the establishment of a sense of community underpin our school environment.
Amersham School was rated a good school by Ofsted in 2016.
As employers, we are committed to your personal development. We offer a supportive and innovative environment to work within and opportunities for Professional Development which will allow you to further enhance your skilful practice.
Our staff members have free access to our fitness suite, onsite parking and will have the opportunity to take part in social activities. As a result of our success we are expanding our school and therefore are recruiting teachers to join our hard working, innovative and enthusiastic team.
You can find out more about Amersham School on https://www.amershamschool.org.uk/
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