Design Technology Technician (fixed term maternity cover)
Lord Grey Academy, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, MK3 6EW18 days remaining to apply
Start date details
Required for June 2025
Closing date
22 April 2025 at 9am
Date listed
3 April 2025
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: Hours of Work: 8.30am – 4.30pm (4pm on Fridays) 37 hours per week 41 weeks per year (38 term time weeks, 5 training days and 2 further weeks)
Contract type
- Fixed term - Fixed Term Maternity Cover - Maternity or parental leave cover
Full-time equivalent salary
- Actual annual starting salary: £22,771 per annum
Pay scale
- Tove Learning Trust Band F £25,183 - £25,584 per annum
What skills and experience we're looking for
DESIGN TECHNOLOGY TECHNICIAN
(Fixed Term Maternity Cover)
Hours of Work: 8.30am – 4.30pm (4pm on Fridays)
37 hours per week
41 weeks per year (38 term time weeks, 5 training days and 2 further weeks)
Tove Learning Trust Band F £25,183 - £25,584 per annum
Actual annual starting salary: £22,771 per annum
Required for June 2025, an experienced Design Technology Technician to provide high-quality support to staff and students within our Creative Technologies faculty. The postholder will undertake a range of duties, to include preparing equipment and materials, maintaining all equipment in safe order, and aiding with machining of wood, and plastics as required etc and to support the school in their Health & Safety compliance.
Applicants must be hard working, willing to be flexible and able to offer a wide range of practical skills. You must be self-motivated, totally trustworthy and reliable, able to take the initiative and to work as part of a team.
What the school offers its staff
Unlimited tea & coffee
Free porridge every morning
Free Car parking
Free food for staff for Parents evenings
Discount for staff children - Paris St Germain Football Academy holiday camps and player development programme
Bike to work scheme
Staff socials
Weekly prize draw for staff
No emails at the weekend and after 5pm
Travel and expenses paid for training
Chromebook for teaching staff
Priority admission for staff children
Staff Special leave policy
Cross networking and shared learning opportunities across all our schools in the Trust
Career progression and promotion opportunities
Ethos team to support students
Discounted tickets for staff at selected shows at Stantonbury Theatre.
Join an Academy part of a highly supportive and growing MAT. Lord Grey joined Tove Learning Trust in April 2018 and is situated in Bletchley on the outskirts of the growing city of Milton Keynes. We achieved our GOOD OFSTED status in Summer 2022. Since then we have gone from strength to strength with improving GCSE and level 3 results; a football partnership with Paris St- Germain and winners of MK Inspiration Awards ‘Inspiring Secondary School’ 2023 and MK Educations Awards ‘Secondary School of the Year’; ‘Maths Team of the Year’ and ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ November 2023. The right candidate will join us on our exciting journey and enable us to continue to provide a great education for our amazing students as we prepare them for adult life. We have a strong collegial team who create a real atmosphere of collaboration and community who embody - Lord Grey Can!
Tove Learning Trust
The trust is committed to ensuring that all students achieve as highly as possible and we work hard to offer stimulating environments that enable every learner to progress and flourish. We have a small central team and a committed Board of Trustees that are focused on delivering outstanding outcomes. We aim to have academies that are excellent communities of learning where students thrive on success. There are seven secondary schools and one primary school in this growing Trust.
The Academy is committed to safeguarding children. The successful applicant will require an enhanced DBS check.
Further details about the role
A vacancy booklet, information for candidates booklet and the application form are all available on the vacancies section of Lord Grey Academy’s website: http://www.lordgrey.org.uk/general-information/vacancies/
Please note the application form and information for candidates booklet are available on the right hand side of the above link. Details on how to apply for this post are in the How to Apply Section of this booklet. Please do look at our recruitment video of our staff talking about working at Lord Grey and our document: Why work at Lord Grey?
Completed application form and covering letter should be submitted to Human Resources at Lord Grey Academy or emailed to hr@lordgrey.org.uk by 9am on Tuesday 22nd April 2025. Interviews to be held on Friday 25th April 2025.
Only successfully short listed candidates will be contacted.
Commitment to safeguarding
The Academy is committed to safeguarding children. The successful applicant will require an enhanced DBS check.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Lord Grey Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 19
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1414 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Lord Grey Academy website
- Email address
- hr@lordgrey.org.uk
- Phone number
- 01908 626110
Lord Grey Academy is an exciting and vibrant learning community where students enjoy great success in and outside of the classroom. Our Academy motto: Lord Grey Can is important to us as we prepare our students for successful adult lives in an increasingly competitive world.
Lord Grey Academy is popular and is the first choice school locally. We have a strong focus on academic achievement throughout the school and develop our young people to be independent and resilient learners. We are immensely proud of our inclusive ethos and of the positive relationships that we build with parents and the local community. We believe that all students can achieve.
Arranging a visit to Lord Grey Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email hr@lordgrey.org.uk.
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