Performing Arts Technician
Sir William Borlase's Grammar School, Marlow, Buckinghamshire, SL7 2BR8 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
7 July 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
27 June 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
- £25,625.00 - £27,770.00 Annually (Actual)
Performing Arts Technician job summary
Performing Arts Technician
Required as soon as possible, a rare and exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic technician to join the passionate Performing Arts faculty at Borlase as our Performing Arts Technician, supporting the Senior Theatre Technician and Director of Performing Arts, and working alongside all other Performing Arts staff.
This is an ideal role for someone who wishes to develop their own experience of working in a professional theatre setting, supporting the creation of high quality and varied arts productions. The role also provides the opportunity to work with young people across all the Performing Arts, including Music, Dance, Drama and Production Arts.
The Performing Arts Technician works with the Theatre Manager to ensure the smooth running and use of the purpose-built theatre, as well as providing practical support in Production Arts BTEC lessons (which currently has a cohort of 28 students). The Performing Arts Technician also works with the Director of Performing Arts and Heads of Music, Dance & Drama in assisting with the rigging and set up for practical examination work, including work which is recorded.
The Performing Arts Technician has a key role in supporting the large range of outstanding extracurricular events that are undertaken across the Arts each year, including concerts, rock shows, dance shows, plays and musical productions. The technician would also undertake technical support for external lettings.
The Performing Arts at Borlase
The Performing Arts play a significant role in the culture and ethos of Borlase, and the breadth, depth and quality of our curricular and extracurricular programmes are nationally recognised. Music, Dance and Drama are all offered at GCSE & A Level and are a popular choice among students, with numbers significantly higher than current national averages. The school also offers the Production Arts BTEC for students in the sixth form. All students achieve outstanding results and produce work of excellent quality. We also have a talented and increasingly popular junior technical team which, in the past, has been led by the Performing Arts Technician.
The Performing Arts faculty encourages and facilitates student leadership opportunities, ‘real-world’ industry experience and provides further inspirational activities for our very enthusiastic students including thirty-five weekly clubs and ensembles, ranging from orchestras to dance companies to Technical Theatre clubs. Borlasians regularly take part in wider community events including Marlow Festival, outdoor music festivals and Christmas events.
Please visit our YouTube channel (SWBGS), Twitter (@BorlaseArts) and Instagram (@borlasetech, @borlasemusic, @borlasedance) accounts for further insight into the Performing Arts at Borlase and to see what you could be involved in!
Facilities
The Performing Arts facilities at Borlase are excellent, at the heart of which is a 216-capacity purpose-built theatre supplied with professional equipment. It is a versatile space which has been designed to support students’ learning and operation. We have a Zero88 FLX2 Universe lighting desk running mostly traditional fixtures alongside some intelligent lighting. There is a fully installed PA System with an Allen & Heath QU24 Desk, with an array of industry standard microphones and comms systems.
We currently have a dance studio including sprung floor, mirrors and ballet barre and a separate drama studio. Music rooms include a PC-suite and students use a range of software including Sibelius and Ableton. We are currently working on plans to expand our theatre into a purpose-built Performing Arts centre, so it is a very exciting time to be joining the school.
Please see Job Description and Person Specification for further information.
Sir William Borlase's Grammar School and the Marlow Education Trust has a responsibility for and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and for ensuring that they are protected from harm, therefore it is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare:
- All unspent cautions and convictions cautions
- All adult cautions and spent convictions that are not protected (i.e. that are not filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2020).
The post is subject to an enhanced DBS including the children's barred list check and qualifications check.
As part of Sir William Borlase's Grammar School and the Marlow Education Trust's pre-recruitment due diligence checks, online searches may be conducted for shortlisted candidates.
We welcome applicants from a diverse range of cultures and all sections of our community.
Please note that applications will be reviewed as received and should a suitable candidate be identified, we may close the vacancy early. Therefore, early application is encouraged.
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 Sir William Borlase's Grammar School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1191 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Sir William Borlase's Grammar School website
Sir William Borlase’s Grammar School is an Outstanding selective-entry, co-educational grammar school located in the centre of the attractive riverside town of Marlow, Buckinghamshire. Heavily oversubscribed, the school has an excellent academic record at both GCSE and A Level. Our highly - motivated students and enthusiastic teachers thrive in our distinctive, vibrant teaching and learning environment. We offer a broad and rich curriculum and have an excellent reputation for our wider opportunities including STEM, Sport, Performing Arts, Creative Writing, Duke of Edinburgh Award, Expeditions and many other extra-curricular activities.
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