DESIGN & TECHNOLOGY TECHNICIAN (PRODUCT DESIGN)

Hall Green School, Birmingham, West Midlands, B28 0AA

14 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  AS SOON AS POSSIBLE

• Closing date

  12 January 2026 at 9am

• Date listed

  9 December 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £24,796.00 - £26,824.00 Annually (FTE) Grade 2, Point 3-8 £24,796.00 - £26,824.00 (actual £21,774.90 - £23,555.82)

DESIGN & TECHNOLOGY TECHNICIAN (PRODUCT DESIGN) job summary

You will be required to work 37 hours per week excluding a 30-minute lunch break each day. Full-Time, 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:

• Preparing materials and equipment for design based work
• Arranging equipment and materials for focused demonstrations
• Ensuring that all items of equipment/workbenches are available and in good, safe condition for use by students
• Tidying up and checking that all equipment is safely stored following practical sessions.
• Assisting with demonstrations to aid teacher delivery, for example, the preparation of a range of materials used in Product Design and machinery set-up when required
• Assisting the teacher to support pupils when difficulties arise during a making task activity
• Safety checks across all Product Design class rooms and machine room
• Occasional photocopying.
• Stock control and inventory checks.

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 ethos. Likewise, staff work hard to ensure "there is always an adult on hand whom they [pupils] feel they can talk to and who will listen to them (Ofsted 2025). As a school, we pride ourselves on being warm, inclusive and welcoming where positive relationships are at the centre of what we do.

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 and the amendments to the (Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. Which means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are 'protected', so they 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. Safeguarding is our top priority. We encourage all applicants to review our Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy, which outlines our commitment to the safety and wellbeing of our pupils. 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 Monday 12 January 2026.

Interviews will be held week commencing: Monday 19 January 2026.

For further details and to apply please see the school website www.hallgreen.bham.sch.uk vacancies/apply now.

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

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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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.

About Hall Green School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 907 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Hall Green School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/hall-green-school-birmingham

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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