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  • Job start date

    2 September 2024

  • Closing date

    24 June 2024 at 9am

  • Date listed

    3 June 2024

Job details

Job role

  • Administration, HR, data and finance
  • Other support roles

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Full time: Full-time, 36 hours 40 minutes per week

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

Actual Pro rata salary £19,327 - £20,568 (Pay award Pending)

Pay scale

Grade 2, SCP Point 4 - 6 (£23,114 - £23,893) FTE

What skills and experience we're looking for

The Blue Coat School is seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and proactive Science Technician to join our successful team delivering high quality support to the science department. Experience of working in a school setting and a First Aid qualification would be an advantage though not essential. A willingness to undertake training is essential for applicants without prior laboratory experience.

We are looking for someone who:

  • Has excellent interpersonal skills.
  • Is efficient and organised, with a sound knowledge base including the safe use and storage of equipment and chemicals.
  • Ideally has experience in a laboratory or similar environment.

If you are passionate about Science and enjoy working in a busy role, then we would love to hear from you.

What the school offers its staff

Working for The Blue Coat School means that you would be part of the Cranmer Education Trust, a successful, growing Trust which prides itself on looking after its people, offering a high level of support and access to expertise. This is an excellent time to join the team, as we develop collaborative structures and systems to enhance and support our growing family of schools.

For further details please visit https://careers.cranmereducationtrust.com/.

We offer:

  • Opportunities for professional development in a growing Trust
  • LGPS career average pension scheme including life insurance and dependent's pension
  • Generous holiday entitlement and sick pay scheme, increasing with length of service
  • Central Oldham location close to good transport networks


Further details about the role

Alongside The Blue Coat School, the Trust is made up of primary and secondary schools across Oldham and Rochdale. The Trust also incorporates a teacher training school and the East Manchester Teaching Hub and a MFL hub, which support the training and development of new and existing teachers across the North West of England. For further details please visit https://careers.cranmereducationtrust.com/.



Commitment to safeguarding

The Blue Coat School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

For further information please refer to:

The Cranmer Education Trust’s Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy:
Trust Policies | Cranmer Education Trust

Applying for the job

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About The Blue Coat CofE School

School type
Academy, Church of England, ages 11 to 18
Education phase
View all Secondaryjobs
School size
1680 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 18
Email address
hr@cranmeredt.org
Phone number
0161 624 1484

We are very proud of our school, which attracts students from across Greater Manchester and beyond. It first opened in 1834. Our founder, Thomas Henshaw, was a committed Anglican who left a bequest to fund a school which would provide education for the orphaned boys of the parish.

From these humble beginnings, the Blue Coat School has become one of the biggest and most successful schools in the country. The school has a national reputation for high quality teaching and learning, pastoral care, consistently excellent examination results and outstanding progress. Our most recent OFSTED inspection in 2011/2 judged the school to be outstanding in every category. As a result, Blue Coat has been designated a National Teaching School which means that we work with schools nationally and locally to develop the very best educational provision. Blue Coat is grounded in tradition and history, and is evolving and forward looking. Our historic campus has been restored and developed extensively; our students enjoy picnic lunches in front of a Grade II listed building but their learning takes place in superb 21st century classrooms, laboratories and studios.

Blue Coat is dedicated to serving young people, to enable them to become everything they can be and everything that they are meant to be. We are a Church of England school that welcomes members of other Christian denominations, and of other faiths.

Our Anglican beliefs, values and worship are at the core of our life together in school.

Arranging a visit to The Blue Coat CofE School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email hr@cranmeredt.org.

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