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Science Technician

The Priory School, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, SG5 2UR

This job expired on 16 May 2025 – see similar jobs

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  16 May 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  8 May 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Subject: Science
• Working pattern: Part time: 32.5 hours per week
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: H4

What skills and experience we're looking for

The successful candidate will:

• be an innovative and creative thinker
• be solutions-focussed in their approach to challenges
• demonstrate excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• show enthusiasm, common sense and good humour
• embody the school’s values of Responsibility, Respect and Resilience
• have the desire to progress further in their career
• have the ability to make a difference to the life chances of our students

What the school offers its staff

We will provide you with the right balance of support, challenge and stimulation for both job satisfaction and career development.

The Priory School:

• is oversubscribed;

• has happy, disciplined students who are eager to achieve their best;

• has a well-qualified, hard-working and committed staff who enjoy working at the school;

• has students who all have a Chromebook;

• promotes learning outside the classroom though our TPS Award and DofE programme;

• has a Specialist Resource Provision hub for students with SLCN and ASD;

• is committed to innovation and excellence;

• actively promotes staff wellbeing ;

• works in a well-established and successful 6th Form consortium;

• is undergoing a £6 million facilities upgrade; and

• is situated on a modern, attractive greenbelt campus in Hitchin with excellent transport links to London, Cambridge and beyond.

Commitment to safeguarding

The Priory School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and visitors to share this commitment. Appointment to this post is subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check (DBS) as well as other pre-appointment checks outlined in Keeping Children Safe in Education (September 2024).

To help us meet our high standards and aspirations of a fully diverse and inclusive workplace, we strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from all backgrounds to apply and to join us.

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About The Priory School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1231 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: The Priory School website
• Email address: emma.sangster@priory.herts.sch.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-priory-school

The Priory School is a vibrant and inclusive Foundation School, which is both rooted in and actively involved in its local community.

This is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious and innovative leader who is keen to take their professional next step and will be proud to lead this uniquely placed, co-educational school.

The Priory School is located on the edge of Hitchin, a highly sought-after market town with excellent local amenities and transport links. It boasts a brand new sixth form centre, a funded specialist SEND unit and a spacious 27-acre site with great sports facilities.

As a Foundation school, we work closely with our local educational authority. We deliver a broad and varied subject curriculum (encompassing the National curriculum), but in addition also deliver a wide ranging, extra-curricular offering.

The Priory School is a genuinely welcoming working environment, with a supportive and experienced dedicated staff team.

We aim to provide our students with an excellent standard of education, focused on both progress and attainment, whilst promoting the core values of responsibility, respect, and resilience.

Our vision is to empower every student to develop and meet their aspirations, to be self-confident, inspirational and active members of their community. We believe in developing happy, well rounded, focussed and resilient individuals.

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