School Technician
Shipston High School, Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire, CV36 4DY13 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
29 September 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
16 September 2025
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subjects
- Art and design, Design and technology, Food technology
Working pattern
- Part time: 8.30am to 4:00pm, two days per week, 15 hours (including 30 minute unpaid lunch break). To support across the school in various subjects such as Art, DT, Food Tech and Textiles. Term time plus 5 days spread over the year.
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Grade D: £24,796 - £25,185
Actual salary
- £8,598 - £8,733
What skills and experience we're looking for
Roles & Responsibilities
- Responsible for providing an efficient, effective and timely support service across the faculty.
- Support students and staff across the school in workshops with practical work and projects
- To assist as a technician across the school in other faculties as required
- Jointly responsible for awareness of appropriate Health & Safety legislation. Utilising CLEAPPS and updating Risk assessments and other legislative paperwork up to date as appropriate. Where necessary implementing changes and ensuring that all faculty staff (teaching and support) are adequately trained.
- Joint responsibility for ensuring students and staff follow good working practices at all times.
- Responsible for inspection, maintenance, replacement and correct use and storage of all equipment across the faculty.
- Responsible for ensuring curriculum areas meet current Health and Safety standards and that tools and equipment are fit for purpose prior to use by staff and students.
- Liaise with Head of faculty regarding stock levels, to include responsibility for ordering new stock and ensuring value for money is achieved.
- Responsible for day-to-day preparation and cleanliness of the faculty areas. To include regular and effective inspections of work stations, benches, hand tools, machinery and ancillary equipment.
- Responsible for identifying and repairing minor problems with machinery and hand tools. To include replacement of defective parts. Reporting major defects to appropriate external repair.
- Ensuring the safe storage of tools, equipment and materials including where necessary the manufacturing of racks and other equipment.
- Responsible for the construction and preparation of equipment used in lessons and demonstrations by teaching staff.
- Responsible for the mounting and displaying of students work including the use of reprographics and audio-visual equipment where appropriate.
- Safe storage of hazardous materials according to COSHH regulations, including provision and use of appropriate PPE including, when necessary, the correct disposal of such materials.
- Implementation and maintenance of an efficient and effective system of stock control ensuring the safe distribution of stock within the technology department; ensure the accuracy and safe keeping of all records of alcohols, poisons, inflammable liquids, lifting equipment and the like used within the department.
- Preparing, retrieving and cleaning of equipment and materials for lessons, activities and examinations in curriculum areas.
- Assist staff with demonstrations and the supervision of students where necessary including the practical oversight of small student groups carrying out project work under the direction of a member of staff.
- Undertake training and development commensurate with the post.
- Assist Site Manager with general site duties as required
- Any other duties within the spirit and scope of the grading as requested or required.
Responsible for: Self & Joint Responsibility for pupil safety and welfare within the D & T faculty in particular and across the wider school as a member of school staff.
Responsible to: Head of Faculty
School Business Manager
Date of Issue: September 2025
Knowledge
- Ideally some knowledge of equipment used in technology areas, including some hand tools, power tools, workshop tools, 3D printers, audio visual and textiles machinery.
- Usage of the above (training will be given)
- Health & Safety Aspects of the above
- Excellent ICT Skills
Skills and Abilities
- To liaise and communicate effectively with line manager and other staff in respect of duties to be undertaken and deadlines to be met.
- Preparation of equipment and the practical use of materials such as wood, metals, plastics and computer software
- The use and maintenance of workshop machines, hand and power tools.
- The numeric and literacy skills to write basic reports, check stock levels and deal with ordering and delivery of goods
- Cash handling skills to undertake shopping for materials
- To communicate effectively with other users and students in order to give and receive information and instruction
- Assist with and give demonstrations of equipment and experiments to students
- Systematically process queries / enquiries / resolve difficulties and cope with interruptions
- Maintain stock control of materials, initiating re-ordering procedures, raise orders, process deliveries and associated paperwork
- Meet deadlines in respect of setting up equipment / materials for classes and projects.
- Undertake inspection and minor repairs and servicing of equipment and tools
- Show awareness and understanding of safety issues.
- DIY Skills
- To have practical / technical experience ideally in a commercial / industrial / pupil sector / educational background
Personal Attributes
- A genuine interest in working with young people
- Willingness to work with teaching staff and groups of students
- GCSE English and Maths grade 4 or equivalent.
What the school offers its staff
Shipston High School is a high-achieving 11-16 school in attractive rural surroundings. We are recruiting the following vacancy to start as soon as possible. For more information please check the school’s website or contact school office
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Shipston High School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS disclosure.
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About Shipston High School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 600 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Shipston High School website
- Email address
- lernst@shipstonhigh.co.uk
- Phone number
- 01608 661833
Shipston High School is a high-achieving 11-16 school in attractive rural surroundings.
Shipston High School has a unique school atmosphere, arising from our high expectations and our student-centred ethos. It is an ethos in which our teachers are able to focus on the wellbeing and academic progress of our young people. As a result, both students and teachers flourish.
This is a hugely exciting time for the school. At this point of significant national change in education, we are highly ambitious for our students and we recognise that our staff are essential to their success. Examination results have shown impressive attainment in the last few years and, as a result, the school is regularly oversubscribed.
Our students are our best advertisement. They are motivated, hard working and well behaved. In July 2023, Ofsted noted that ‘pupils are mature, polite and considerate of others’, further observing that ‘Pupils show positive attitudes towards learning’.
Arranging a visit to Shipston High School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email lernst@shipstonhigh.co.uk.
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