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Science Technician

King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys, Birmingham, West Midlands, B14 7QJ

This job expired on 19 April 2023 – see similar jobs

• Job start date

  5 June 2023

• Closing date

  19 April 2023 at 9am

• Date listed

  31 March 2023

Job details

• Job role:
  • Learning support or cover supervisor
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Subject: Science
• Working pattern: Full time: 36.5hrs per week
• Contract type: Maternity or parental leave cover - 5th June 2023 - 22nd March 2024
• Full-time equivalent salary: K E Salary Scale – Grade 4-6 (Currently £21,189 - £21,968)

What skills and experience we're looking for

• The ability to communicate effectively with colleagues/pupils and members of staff

• Experience of using and maintaining specialist Science equipment and apparatus

• Carry out risk assessment in relation to laboratory work with a clear understanding of laboratory safety

• Ability to use ICT Equipment as the role requires

What the school offers its staff

• To work alongside the senior technician to support the teachers in delivering the science curriculum.

• Ensuring the provision and setting up of all equipment, chemicals and specimens for practical sessions and examinations including constructing, setting up and dismantling equipment as required.

• Advising and supporting teaching staff in the safe and proper use of equipment and contributing to classroom demonstrations as required.

• Monitor staff requests for apparatus and resources.

• Carrying out minor repairs to equipment and arranging for more complex repairs to be carried out by suppliers/external organisations.

• Ensuring that the laboratories and equipment are kept in a clean, safe and tidy condition at all times and that all chemicals and equipment are stored and used in accordance with Health and Safety legislation and good practice.

• Monitoring and controlling supplies of stock and informing the Senior Science Technician when further supplies are needed. Checking goods delivered against orders and carrying out inventory checks on a regular basis.

• Ensuring the safe disposal of harmful chemicals and biological specimens and that standard solutions and other reagents are maintained in laboratories.

• Ensuring the plants and animals are cared for appropriately.

• Ensuring the provision and setting up of equipment for extracurricular clubs, open evenings and science events.

• Maintaining the science database of teaching resources and ensuring that filing and resource systems are kept up to date.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our role in school is clearly defined by statutory Department for Education (DfE) guidance - Keeping Children Safe in Education. Our duties form an important part of the wider safeguarding system for children and mean that we will always consider what is in the best interests of the child.

All schools have a Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) and at Camp Hill Boys it is Mr Andrew Caves, the Deputy Head (Pastoral). If you have any concerns or queries of a safeguarding nature, please contact him or your son's Head of Year.

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About King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys

• School type: Academy, Christian, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 982 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: headspa@camphillboys.bham.sch.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/king-edward-vi-camp-hill-school-for-boys-birmingham (opens in new tab)

Welcome to King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys. We are a caring community where everyone can do and be their best. We strive to support our students through the ups and downs of life so that they can lead a happy and fulfilled life as much as possible. We pride ourselves in our breath-taking array of opportunities, both in our traditional academic curriculum and across our extra-curricular and enrichment programme.

The original school opened at Camp Hill, close to the city centre, in 1883 and moved to Kings Heath in 1956 because the original site was proving too small for a growing school. Camp Hill is a warm and welcoming community – where expectations and standards are high, and where a well-rounded education helps to prepare boys for the challenges and opportunities of adult life. Camp Hill Boys shares a beautiful campus with our sister school and can genuinely claim to be one of the highest achieving and best equipped schools in the country.

The boys are inspired by their excellent, well qualified teachers and are supported by parents, Governors and Old Boys. As a result, every year, Camp Hill Boys features prominently in national league tables for examination results and value added statistics which measure the attainment and progress of the boys. The students are ambitious and take their academic studies seriously, and they balance their priorities well – engaging fully in sport, music, arts, drama, chess and the extensive range of activities and leadership opportunities available at Camp Hill.

These views of the school were supported by Ofsted reports in 2000, 2006 and 2009 which judged the school to be “outstanding”. More importantly, the Inspectors found that Camp Hill was committed to go on improving, stating it has a “relentless pursuit of excellence in all aspects of the school’s work”.

Hopefully, our website will give you a flavour of our school. Education for able boys should be about challenge and enjoyment. They should feel supported and cared for as they grow up in a community which expects and delivers the highest standards.

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