Science Technician
Sir Bernard Lovell Academy, Bristol, BS30 8TS41 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
26 June 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
15 May 2025
Job details
Job role
- IT support
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subject
- Science
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Grade 4 £25,584 - £25,992 FTE
Science Technician job summary
Working pattern: Full time or part time, term time only, all INSET days, plus 10 days during school holidays (for full time, % allocation for part time)
Do you want to work in a supportive environment where your skills and contributions are valued?
Join us!
At Futura Learning Partnership, we are committed to creating an environment where every employee - whether in teaching, support, or leadership - can flourish. We strive to attract, develop, and retain the very best talent by creating a culture that values professional development, wellbeing, and inclusion.
Your Role in Building Brighter Futures
As a Science Technician at Sir Bernard Lovell Academy, you will play a key role in contributing to the delivery of Futura’s mission statement of “Building the brightest future for all, enabling every individual to flourish”. We are looking for an individual who is passionate about living our values and making a positive impact on all the young people in our Trust.
We are a thriving and oversubscribed 11-18 co-educational comprehensive school serving the communities between Bristol and Bath. Our strong house system, student leadership roles and enrichment programme ensure that our students have an extensive range of opportunities to develop their personal skills and characteristics outside as well as inside the classroom.
As a Science Technician, you will be responsible for:
• Providing specialist assistance in the preparation of classrooms, laboratories, and workshops for use by staff and pupils ensuring a safe, tidy, and healthy working environment is provided at all times.
• Providing specialist assistance and be responsible for teaching resources and materials, displays, apparatus and equipment.
• Providing technical assistance and support to teaching staff and pupils on the safe and economic use of equipment and materials (including electrical equipment).
• Working with teaching staff in the creation and design of new teaching resources and materials.
• Demonstrating, advising, and assisting in practical activities and support practical experiments where necessary, assisting with practical project work as part of, for example, Post-16 studies, under the direction of teaching staff.
• Assisting in using IT and AVA equipment associated with displays, machinery, and experiments, ensuring the availability and security of equipment used.
• Maintaining and repairing equipment and apparatus or organise maintenance and repair, seeking specialist assistance, when necessary, in order to ensure safe and efficient operation.
• Ensuring that workshops, laboratories, classrooms, and all equipment used are kept clean, tidy and in a safe condition.
• Monitoring routine and non-routine checking, maintenance, calibration, cleaning, and fault investigation to ensure it is carried out to the required standard.
• Being responsible for the safe storage of equipment and materials and the disposal of waste and hazardous materials, according to the relevant regulations, guidelines, and school procedures and in line with Health and Safety good practice.
• Maintaining records of stock levels and loans of equipment and materials and undertake annual stocktaking; order new stocks, supplies or equipment when authorised by teaching staff, taking receipt of materials and equipment delivered and passing invoices for payment.
• Bring responsible where required for petty cash and the purchase of relevant items locally when authorised, assessing the availability of suitable alternatives in line with best value principles and maintaining records of transactions and expenditure in accordance with the schools’ financial guidelines.
• Assisting with the issue and return of textbooks as required and undertake other appropriate clerical duties when required.
• Assisting in the organisation and preparation of displays for open evenings and other school functions as and when required.
• Ensuring at all times and in all the above activities that Health and Safety Regulations, and other relevant regulations and guidelines such as COSHH regulations and school procedures, are adhered to and observed. This may involve taking a lead role in regular and routine checking and testing procedures and risk assessments where appropriate, and proactively contributing to the assessment, monitoring and review of Health and Safety procedures and policies.
• Playing a proactive role in developing the skills and experience of other technicians and promoting ‘best practice’ in all aspects of the work requirements.
• Assisting teaching staff as directed and undertake other duties and responsibilities commensurate with the post, including assisting or advising other technicians in areas of particular competence or skill.
Data Protection and Safeguarding
• Work within the requirements of Data Protection at all times.
• Understand your responsibilities in relation to Safeguarding and child protection and how to highlight an issue / concern.
• Remain vigilant to ensure all students are protected from potential harm.
What You’ll Bring to Futura
We are looking for a motivated, organised and detail-oriented Science Technician:
• Qualifications: at least GCSEs (A-C) or equivalent in English, maths, and a science subject. Relevant vocational qualifications like NVQs in Laboratory Science (Levels 2-4) or Laboratory and Associated Technical Activities are also valuable but not essential.
• Experience: Work experience, particularly in a lab or scientific setting, is highly beneficial and can demonstrate commitment.
• Skills: A willingness to cooperate and collaborate with a wide range of colleagues as a member of a team, the ability to learn and demonstrate a genuine interest in assisting young people achieve their potential, the ability to be creative, imaginative and adaptable, a capacity for demanding work, an ability to be an effective and positive team member and a commitment to improving standards.
• Demonstrates a passion for creating a supportive and inclusive environment for all members of our school community.
• Aligns with our trust-wide values by bringing a positive, collaborative approach to their work and a willingness to continuously develop professionally.
What We Offer to Support Your Growth
• Professional Growth: Continuous Professional Development (CPD), inset days, rotation and secondment opportunities, and leadership succession programmes.
• Wellbeing Support: Initiatives like ‘Wellbeing Moments,’ flexible working arrangements, and access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for mental health support.
• Comprehensive Benefits: Generous defined pension schemes, Health Cash-back Plan (covering dentist, physiotherapy appointments etc.), and multiple retail discount schemes.
• Sustainability Commitment: Reducing our carbon footprint through our Climate and Nature initiatives across all schools.
• Inclusive Culture: A collaborative environment where diversity is celebrated, helping staff bring their best selves to work and thrive in their roles.
Futura Learning Partnership is Committed to Safeguarding:
Futura Learning Partnership is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Your suitability to work with children and young people will form part of the selection process. For this post, prior to appointment Futura Learning Partnership will apply for a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure and Barring check, a Children’s Barred list check, two satisfactory references, one of which must be from your existing/most recent employer and completed by a Headteacher/appropriate senior manager/HR Lead, satisfactory pre-employment health screening, online searches and for Teachers, a Prohibition Check in relation to the children’s workforce. In some settings a Declaration will be required in order to meet our obligations under the ‘Disqualification under the Childcare Act 2006.
Commitment to safeguarding
Futura Learning Partnership is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Your suitability to work with children and young people will form part of the selection process. Prior to appointment Futura Learning Partnership will apply for a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure and Barring check, a Children’s Barred list check, two satisfactory references, satisfactory pre-employment health screening and a Prohibition Check in relation to the children’s workforce. A Declaration will be required in order to meet our obligations under the ‘Disqualification under the Childcare Act 2006.
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 Sir Bernard Lovell Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1244 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Sir Bernard Lovell Academy website
Futura Learning Partnership is a partnership of schools which span 5 local authority areas: Bath & North East Somerset, Bristol, North Bristol, North Somerset, Somerset and South Gloucestershire. Working together to provide a high quality educational experience for all students in their care and be a truly inclusive provider of 3-18 education in the area. We are a mixed MAT, comprising 6 secondary, 21 primary and a special school. We work in partnership with the Diocese of Bath and Wells, which brings considerable benefit to all our schools.
OFSTED judged Sir Bernard Lovell Academy “Good” in all areas during our most recent full inspection (November 2021).
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