Science Technician
Kingsdown School, Swindon, SN2 7SH5 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
11 June 2025 at 9am
Date listed
3 June 2025
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time, full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £24,790.00 - £25,584.00 Annually (FTE) Actual £21,829 - £22,528, Pay award pending. Term time plus TD days and 5 days. Part time may be considered (see below). Plus £500 incentive
Science Technician job summary
Start date: September 2025
Closing date: Wednesday 11th June, 9.00am
Shortlisting date: Thursday 12th June
Interview date: Wednesday 18th June
Contract: Permanent
Working hours: 37 hours per week (Part time may be considered, see below)
Working pattern: Term time only plus TD days and 5 days during the holidays
8.00am to 4.00pm Monday - Thursday
8.00am to 3.30pm Friday
A daily unpaid break of 30 minutes
We would consider part time (working 80% of hours) for the right candidate
Salary Range: Actual £21,829-£22,528 (FTE £24,790-£25,584) pay award pending. Plus £500 recruitment incentive
What are we looking for in our new Science Technician:
Good organisational skills, flexible working practices, patience, persistence and the ability to build working relationships with students and staff is essential.
The successful candidate will be educated to GCSE C (or equivalent) in at least three subjects including science together with one year’s relevant working experience. Alternatively you may have two years’ experience in a Science Technicians role with evidence of in-service training, literacy and numeracy to GCSE standard and willingness to undertake NVQ. You will have a working knowledge of Health and Safety policies and procedures.
For more details, please see the Job Description attached. If you would like to more about this opportunity, or to arrange visit or a call please contact recruitment@kingsdownschool.co.uk
This role includes regulated activity relevant to children.
The River Learning Trust and Kingsdown School are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and preventing extremism. The Trust is required to conduct a variety of checks and online searches about you as part of their recruitment process in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. It is an offence to apply for certain roles within schools if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.
For all RLT Safer Recruitment Documentation candidates should click on the following link RLT Safer Recruitment Documents for Candidates
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. For further guidance for applicants click on this link List of offences that are not filtered
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 Kingsdown School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 990 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Kingsdown School website
Kingsdown is a mixed 11–16 Secondary School located in Stratton St Margaret, Swindon. It offers a vibrant learning environment, one in which its students take great pride in both their learning, their behaviour and their individual aspirations. Our teachers combine a high level of academic expertise with excellent teaching skills and a real and deep concern for the wellbeing of each and every student. Taken together, these allow us to recruit and retain the very best teachers.
Thank you for taking an interest in working with us at Kingsdown School. You are joining us at a very exciting time in our school’s history. At the end of January 2020, we had a two day Ofsted Inspection and were judged to be Good in all five categories under the new framework. This marked the end to over a decade of being judged Requires Improvement.
Kingsdown is a school that has been on a transformational journey. We had a two year P8 trend of -0.50 and this year we secured a P8 score of +0.04. We have also recently been shortlisted for the TES Secondary School of the Year award. Along with the Ofsted judgement, this transformation is truly wonderful for our students, our school and community. Now we are looking for talented and experienced colleagues to join our team as we journey to Outstanding.
Our vision for our school is “a school of excellence bursting with pride and ambition” and our mission statement is that we “champion each and every student”.
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