Science Technician
Chichester Free School, Chichester, West Sussex, PO20 1NP23 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
6 January 2025 at 8am
Date listed
29 November 2024
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: 8.00am-2.30pm Monday to Friday with a 30 minute unpaid break
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- SCP3-4: Approximate starting salary: £24,027 (FTE) Actual Salary: £15,189
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are seeking an exceptional candidate with the energy, passion and creativity to work as a Science Technician in the Science Department of our thriving All-Through school. The role is for 30 hours per week, 8.00am-2.30pm Monday to Friday with a 30 minute unpaid break.
CFS is a vibrant, collaborative and forward thinking school for 4-16 year olds, where the personal development of our pupils is just as important as the academic curriculum. Our values of ‘nurture, challenge and inspire’ influence everything we do as a school, and genuinely permeate all areas of school life. If you share our values and ideals, we strongly encourage you to find out more about CFS via a visit to the school or through our school website www.chichesterfreeschool.org.uk.
Ideally, the successful candidate will have previous school experience, and will be committed to embracing the unique and special environment and opportunities of working in an All-Through school.
The Science Team
Our Science department consists of five specialist teachers and two technicians, with six, bright, high-ceilinged labs and two specialist preparation rooms, with impressive views of the local area.
The Secondary Science team work closely with the Primary phase, who also use practical work to support pupils’ learning.
As a department we are committed to improving outcomes and sparking interest. The required science practicals are only a small part of the number of practical lessons that occur throughout the year. As a team, we value the importance of practical work and support pupils to apply their learning to practical investigations.
The Role
The successful candidate will be expected to provide assistance in the preparation of resources for practical classes, with duties including:
- preparation of resources, including assembling apparatus
- ensuring safe storage and transit of resources
- stock taking, ordering resources
- maintaining a healthy, safe and productive environment in the school’s preparation rooms and laboratories
- record keeping
You will be an excellent team player, keen to learn, and able to work under pressure and to deadlines. Ideally, you should have experience of practical science.
Further information, including a person specification, is available in our job pack.
Early applications are encouraged and we reserve the right to interview and appoint prior to the deadline.
What the school offers its staff
CFS is now entering its second decade and is fully established in our state-of-the-art facilities on the Carmelite Convent Site on the Hunston Road in the south of Chichester. Our PAN is 60 in Primary, and 120 in Secondary; in almost all year groups we are oversubscribed with waiting lists. Due to demand, we have a bulge intake of Year 7 who started in September 2023, with 156 pupils currently in roll.
The School joined Sussex Learning Trust this September – a move that we personally initiated through the desire to collaborate with a like-minded family of schools. The Trust is currently small and based in Haywards Heath; CFS are well placed to launch a new Chichester Hub of the Trust, which is really exciting.
As a Free School, we are the same as any other academy; we are both held and hold ourselves to the same exacting and rigorous standards as all state-funded schools. We follow the national curriculum, and are proud of our ambitious, inclusive and varied curriculum offer. Our pupils engage with SATs and GCSE assessments. Since 2013, CFS has achieved two ‘Good’ Ofsted Inspections. As a school we are now striving for excellence in all areas, and to achieve above average outcomes in both phases.
CFS is open to pupils of all abilities. We do not have a catchment area, thus ensuring the School is fair and inclusive. We take part in the West Sussex County Council (WSCC) admissions process. As a school we benefit from longer holidays, specifically at October half term, Christmas and during the summer.
Commitment to safeguarding
CFS is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. In accordance with our Child Protection Policy we are unable to process applications without a fully completed application form. The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. All convictions, cautions and bind-overs, including those regarded as ‘spent’ must be declared when applying. The applicant may post such a declaration in an envelope marked ‘Private & confidential for the Principal’. The successful applicant must obtain List 99 clearance and DBS clearance at enhanced level.
Applying for the job
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to recruitment@chichesterfreeschool.org.uk
CVs are not accepted.
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About Chichester Free School
- School type
- Free School, ages 4 to 19
- Education phase
- Through
- School size
- 1063 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Chichester Free School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- recruitment@chichesterfreeschool.org.uk
- Phone number
- 01243 792690
CFS is now entering its second decade and is fully established in our state-of-the-art facilities on the Carmelite Convent Site on the Hunston Road in the south of Chichester. Our PAN is 60 in Primary, and 120 in Secondary; in almost all year groups we are oversubscribed with waiting lists. Due to demand, we have a bulge intake of Year 7 who started in September 2023, with 150 pupils currently on roll.
The School joined Sussex Learning Trust last September – a move that we personally initiated through the desire to collaborate with a like-minded family of schools. The Trust is currently small and based in Haywards Heath; CFS are well placed to launch a new Chichester Hub of the Trust, which is really exciting.
As a Free School, we are the same as any other academy; we are both held and hold ourselves to the same exacting and rigorous standards as all state-funded schools. We follow the national curriculum, and are proud of our ambitious, inclusive and varied curriculum offer. Our pupils engage with SATs and GCSE assessments. Since 2013, CFS has achieved two ‘Good’ Ofsted Inspections. As a school we are now striving for excellence in all areas, and to achieve above average outcomes in both phases.
CFS is open to pupils of all abilities. We do not have a catchment area, thus ensuring the School is fair and inclusive. We take part in the West Sussex County Council (WSCC) admissions process. As a school we benefit from longer holidays, specifically at October half term, Christmas and during the summer.
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