Science Technician
Avanti Grange Secondary School, Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire, CM23 2BD13 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2026
Closing date
6 July 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
23 June 2026
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subject
- Science
Working pattern
- Full time, part time (Can be done as a job share)
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Grade 5, £28,602 - £30,525 per annum, pro rata
What skills and experience we're looking for
About us and the role
This role is also available on a part-time basis, and applications for job-share arrangements are welcomed.
Avanti Grange Secondary School is seeking to appoint a reliable and organised Science Technician to support the delivery of practical science across our school.
This is an excellent opportunity to join a school rated Outstanding in all areas by Ofsted in May 2025. Avanti Grange is part of Avanti Schools Trust, a twelve-school multi-academy trust committed to educational excellence and the development of well-rounded young people.
School visits are welcomed and encouraged. Please contact the school to arrange a suitable time.
What will you do?
- Prepare equipment and materials for lessons, maintain laboratories and preparation rooms
- Provide practical support to the Science Department on a day-to-day basis.
- All technical work is carried out in accordance with CLEAPSS guidance and COSHH regulations.
- Build effective professional relationships across the school community.
What are we looking for?
- Knowledgeable in health and safety practice, COSHH regulations and CLEAPSS guidance as they apply to laboratory work
- Accurate and methodical, with strong attention to detail
- Able to manage a varied workload and respond calmly to changing priorities
- A confident communicator, able to work effectively with teaching staff and pupils
- Committed to safeguarding and the welfare of children and young people
Please view the full Job Description for more information on the responsibilities and essential criteria required for this role.
Further information
Pre-employment checks
Avanti Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates are required to have an Enhanced DBS check unless internally appointed and still within the cycle of DBS re-checks. Any appointment subsequently made will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory references and other pre-employment checks.
Diversity and Inclusion
We want to make sure we are attracting the widest possible range of people and ensure that they are accepted, understood and treated equally when they work here. This means we will work hard to understand that each employee is unique and ensuring that individuals or groups are not treated differently or less favourably on the basis of specific characteristics. Such characteristics include (but are not limited to) age, disability, gender including transgender, race, religion, sexual orientation, marital status, and how the school supports pregnant women and new parents.
What the school offers its staff
Why should you apply
Avanti exists to help each person become a well-rounded human being through intellectual, moral and spiritual growth, and so make the world a better place.
You will be working in a fantastic environment, with:
- Great opportunities for professional development
- Teacher pension scheme (subject to eligibility)
- O2 discounts, Specsavers corporate eye test vouchers
- Eligible for NUS Card and CSSC membership
- Well-being programs (retreats, yoga, wellness apps)
- Cycle-to-work Scheme
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Avanti Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates are required to have an Enhanced DBS check unless internally appointed and still within the cycle of DBS re-checks.
Any appointment subsequently made will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory references and other pre-employment checks.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on school website (opens in new tab)Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Avanti Grange Secondary School
- School type
- Free School, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 464 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Avanti Grange Secondary School website
- Email address
- talent@avanti.org.uk
Avanti Grange is a school that is committed to giving all children an engaging and enriching educational experience. We provide a richly diverse and connected school environment, representative of the world that our pupils will enter. Our pupils mature into individuals who are ambitious, open-minded and confident. Along with our academic pathway, we also take care to support individual character formation and spiritual insight through The Avanti Way.
Each pupil at our school is celebrated for their individual talents. For our pupils’, school is about exploring strengths and developing academic and personal skills that will ensure that every child is well prepared for the quickly changing world that awaits them. It is our promise that we will create an environment of challenge, enjoyment and collaboration, both within our school and throughout the Avanti Schools Trust and beyond.
Avanti Schools support each person’s life journey along three parallel paths: Educational excellence; Character formation; and Spiritual insight.
Avanti’s unique ethos places a key emphasis on each individual’s wellbeing and good mental health. Children with higher levels of emotional, behavioural, social, and school wellbeing, on average, have higher levels of academic achievement and are more engaged in the school community. All our schools share a dedicated approach to wellbeing, from providing yoga and mindfulness sessions, sports and exercise, charity work, and working with parents and carers as co-educators.
Arranging a visit to Avanti Grange Secondary School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email talent@avanti.org.uk.
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