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  • Start date details

    March/April 2026

  • Closing date

    17 March 2026 at 11:22am

  • Date listed

    3 March 2026

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Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Full time

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

£24718 - £24946 per annum

Science Technician job summary

Salary: NJC 11-14 £24,718 - £24,946 (FTE) £28,142 - £29,540 (Actual) + well-being cash plan + pension scheme (LGPS) + additional Lift Schools benefits
Hours: 37 hours per week, 40 weeks per year
Contract: Full time, permanent
Closing date: 16th March
Start date: March/ April 2026

Join us as a Science Technician!

Are you hands-on, organised, and love bringing learning to life? Our Science department is searching for a proactive Technician to keep our practical lessons running smoothly and safely. You'll support teachers and students, prepare exciting resources, maintain equipment, and help make every classroom experience exceptional.
At Lift Kingswood, we believe every child deserves a world-class education and we work relentlessly to make that happen. Our school is a place where every pupil is valued, supported, challenged and inspired, and where our team takes pride in having the highest of expectations and ensuring our students achieve first rate qualifications.
At Lift Schools, our mission is simple: every child receives an excellent education, in every classroom, every day. If you're ready to play a key behind-the-scenes role in making that happen, we'd love to meet you!

What You'll Be Doing:
1- Preparing Practical Lessons: Prep materials, set up equipment, and support demonstrations that help students thrive.
2- Assist with lab management: Preparing solutions, maintaining equipment, tracking radioactive sources and ensuring safe handling of materials.
3- Keeping Resources Running Smoothly: Organise tools and materials, track inventory, and ensure supplies are ready to go.
4- Maintaining Equipment: Perform routine checks, basic repairs and keep clear maintenance records.
5- Ensuring Safety: Support risk assessments, uphold safety standards and guide students in safe equipment use.
6- Supporting Projects and Events: Help bring department projects, competitions and displays to life with practical expertise.

What We're Looking For:
1 - Strong practical and technical skills relevant to Science.
2 - Excellent organisation and time-management abilities.
3 - A calm, can-do attitude with strong problem-solving skills.
4 - Confidence working with students and supporting teaching staff.
5 - Good understanding of (or willingness to learn) health & safety procedures.
6 - Ability to maintain equipment, manage resources and keep accurate records.

If you're ready to make a real impact in a vibrant, hands-on learning environment, apply today!

About the school:
Lift Kingswood is a national beacon of educational excellence. We are a school where our students perform well above the national average across all subjects; placing the academy as one of the highest performing schools in the region.

Lift Kingswood is thrilled to celebrate its recent Ofsted report, where the school was recognised for its Outstanding provision for personal development, behaviour and safety and leadership and management; a reflection of the relentless dedication, hard work, and ambition of the entire school community. The inspection also highlighted the school's exceptional achievements in fostering a rich, dynamic learning environment where both pupils and staff thrive.

We advise you to come in and speak with the Principal to discuss the above and shape the next 3 years of your career.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.
Visas cannot be sponsored.
If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

Lift Schools are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils, and we expect all our people and volunteers to share this commitment. We adopt a fair and consistent recruitment process which is in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. This includes online checks for shortlisted candidates. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

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About Lift Kingswood

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 16
Education phase
Secondary school
School size
1534 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 16
Ofsted report
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Lift Kingswood is one of the highest performing schools in the country and is a school where on average our students make over a grade more progress, across all subjects, than other students do nationally; placing the school as the 7th highest performing non-selective school in the country out of 6520 schools.

Our Vision is: 'to deliver world class learning, which places no limits on what young people can achieve' and we are rapidly becoming 'a national beacon of educational excellence in Hull'.

As a national beacon of educational excellence we will ensure that:

All students leave our school with first-rate qualifications: Qualifications that ensure all doors remain open, giving our students the platform to compete and thrive on a global stage.
All students develop exceptional character: Character that exemplifies a true growth mind-set; a phenomenal work ethic; confidence and high levels of grit, resilience and determination; ensuring they are fully prepared to flourish in an ever-changing world.
All students leave our school with high levels of cultural and global awareness: Awareness that develops through diverse experiences that enrich our students, enabling them to engage in, empathise with, challenge and debate current affairs beyond their local community.
All students leave with an array of positive memories that last for a lifetime: Memories that are created from students, staff and our community being fully invested in forging exceptional relationships based on trust, care, high expectations and a passion for genuinely making a difference in their life.
MISSION
Ultimately our Mission is to ensure that: ‘all students have an inner-belief and ambition to fulfil their dreams and live a happy and successful life.’ We are passionate about our students ‘recognising their academic worth’ and making sure that they are ‘prepared to make bold choices in order to secure places, and thrive, at the most reputable and highest performing colleges, universities and world-class employers.’

Key Drivers

Underpinning our vision for educational excellence are our 6 key drivers:

The Highest Expectations - Everyone can be successful; always set and expect the highest standards.
Everyone is Valued - Diversity is celebrated; no one is left behind
No Excuses - Print Solutions not excuses; a accelerate progress
Never Give Up - Resilience is essential; turn challenges into opportunities
Value Feedback - Good quality feedback drives improvement
Outstanding Learning - Outstanding learning in every lesson, every day
These aspirational and inspirational core principles are central to everything that we do and were jointly created by students and staff to drive the school forward. At Lift Kingswood, we live and breathe these key drivers with an unwavering passion and determination to ensure that our students receive the best education; we will not settle for anything but the best, and will not rest until the school is truly great in all areas.

World-Class Teaching and Learning

We are truly passionate about Teaching and Learning and this is central to everything that we do. We firmly believe that when every teacher:

Is passionate about changing life chances of young people
Is passionate about Teaching and Learning
Truly loves their subject
Makes learning interesting, fun and relevant
Knows the detail and nuances of the exam specifications
Forges excellent relationships with all students
Is strict but fair
Is proven and knows how to deliver top notch results
Is passionate about delivering outstanding learning (every lesson, every day)
Has a true growth mind-set;
Together great things can be achieved.

House System

We are also very proud of our competition-based house system. The aim of the house system is to build teamwork, confidence and community through competition. We see the house system as an ‘activator’, a vehicle to motivate and encourage students to push themselves outside of their comfort zone. There are four houses:

Reckitt
Wilberforce
Johnson
Sullivan
Every student, and every member of staff, is affiliated to one of the houses and they compete to earn points for their house. Students can earn points for good attendance and for making rapid academic progress. They can also earn points by entering house competitions such as: photography, dance, cookery, poetry, chess, talent shows and sports day to name but a few. You name it, we’ve got a competition to enable everyone to get involved. We want every student to gain the confidence and belief to compete and experience what it feels like to be part of a successful team. The house system also exposes our students to team camaraderie, team spirit and having a united mission/goal.

Academic Results

Our Progress 8 score is +1.17; meaning that in every subject, our students make over a grade more progress than other students do nationally. Our Attainment 8 score is 56.8, against the National Average of 44.3. This means that students on average achieve between a Grade 5 (good pass) and a Grade 6 in all subjects. 78% of our students also achieved a Grade 4 or higher in both English and Maths, which is well above the National Average of 63%. Our disadvantaged students' Progress 8 score is +1.15 and our SEN Progress 8 score is +1.29, highlighting that all students achieve well at Kingswood Academy; in line with our key driver of ‘Everyone is valued’. As a school, we have the highest expectations of our students, which led to 22% of students achieving Grade 9s in GCSE subjects, placing these students’ performance in the top 5% of the country.

Visits

We welcome visits to the school, to see the school in action and to discuss this post and your career development opportunities. To book an appointment with the Headteacher please email Cathrine Weightman (PA to the Headteacher) on cweightman@liftkingswood.org

OFSTED

To view all our Ofsted reports please click here

Who is Lift Schools?

Lift Schools is made up of 57 primary, secondary and special schools, educating more than 33,000 pupils across the country. We believe education can transform lives – and we want every child in our schools to achieve their full potential.

Our mission:

We will provide an excellent education to every child, in every classroom, every day.
With excellent leadership and teaching in every school, we will help children go on to lead successful and happy lives.
We will work with others beyond our network to benefit more children and communities.

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