Science Technician

Tibshelf Community School, Alfreton, Derbyshire, DE55 5LZ

16 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  04 September 2026

• Closing date

  21 June 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  5 June 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £22,260.00 Annually (Actual) Pay Award Pending - Grade 6

Science Technician job summary

Main Duties and Responsibilities

Co-ordinate the use of practical resources and facilities and to advise and assist in meeting the practical needs of the science curriculum, including liaising with teaching staff and support staff outside the department.

Preparation of practical resources, including making solutions and assembling apparatus.

• Obtaining materials by local purchase.
• Giving technical advice to teachers, technicians, and students.
• Carrying out risk assessments for technician activities and experiments.
• Assisting in practical classes when necessary.

Implementation and dissemination of all appropriate H&S legislation and guidance with respect to science education, including C.O.S.H.H.

Ensure the maintenance of a healthy & safe working environment through:

• Actively contributing to the assessment, monitoring and review of both health & safety procedures and information resources.
• Keeping up to date with current procedures and practices through continuing professional development.
• The provision of technical advice and support on health & safety issues to teaching and trainee technical staff.
• The safe treatment & disposal of used materials including hazardous substances and responding to actual or potential hazards.
• The healthy & safe storage and accessibility of equipment and materials.
• Providing first aid to students and staff in the department as required.

Ensure the availability of suitable materials and equipment, helping to compile orders and liaising or negotiating with suppliers and finance departments. This will include sourcing, costing and suggesting economic alternatives to maintain stock levels, and keeping up-to-date stock records.

• Checking stock, ordering.
• Keeping stock records.
• Maintaining resources.
• To place orders as necessary.

Ensure that both routine and non-routine checking, cleaning, maintenance, calibration, testing, and repairing of equipment are carried out to the required standard. These tasks apply to both the preparation room and the teaching rooms.

• Collecting, checking and returning equipment to stores.
• General laboratory cleaning of bench surfaces, sinks, and fixed equipment.
• Cleaning, repairing, and PAT testing equipment.
• Maintaining a digital inventory of equipment, apparatus and chemicals.

Carry out minor repairs to equipment where possible, or to arrange for repairs if necessary. Monitoring and ensuring that teaching rooms are in good order and stocked with functioning equipment and appropriate stationery and provide a safe working environment for teachers and students.

Carry out administrative duties for the Science department including photocopying, filing, and retrieval of paper resources.

Contribute to the Science Department’s preparation and presentation at Open Evening events.

Attend Science faculty meetings as and when required.

Report health and safety concerns and potential hazards in a timely manner, and to assist and advise teachers in filling out incident reports.

Care for the plants in the Science Faculty.

Attend training relevant to the post held as the need or opportunity arises.

Make use of available administrative and technical support to ensure an effective use of available time.

Provide feedback to the Director of Faculty where necessary and as requested.

Carry out all duties in a safe manner and in line with current school policies and procedures.

Perform, in accordance with any directions and duties which may reasonably be given to you by the Headteacher from time to time, including supporting exam access arrangements in external exams for Science, Maths, and Technology.

Comply with policies and procedures relating to child protection, health, safety and security, confidentiality and data protection, reporting all concerns to the appropriate person.

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NOTES:

The above duties are not exhaustive and the postholder may be required to undertake tasks, roles and responsibilities as may be reasonably assigned to them by the Director of Faculty or the Senior Management Team

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.

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Commitment to safeguarding

Tibshelf Community School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. All staff and volunteers are required to undertake a criminal record check via the DBS before they can be appointed.

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.

About Tibshelf Community School

• School type: Local authority maintained schools, Does not apply, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 819 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Tibshelf Community School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/tibshelf-community-school

Tibshelf Community School opened on a brand new £17m purpose built site in November 2013. We were inspected by Ofsted (September 2021) and were judged to be a ‘Good’ school in all categories.

We are a popular, over-subscribed, 830 strong 11-16 school serving a rural area of North East Derbyshire. We draw students from a geographically dispersed catchment area of nine villages. The official PAN is 150 students per year group but numbers are well above this in all year groups. The proportion of students from minority ethnic groups is very low and significantly below national averages. 30% of the intake are ‘disadvantaged’ and are supported through Pupil Premium funding; 30% of students are SEND, with 5% having an EHCP, including a number of pupils with ASD. The school’s deprivation index is very close to the national average, but it is in the top third within Derbyshire LA and contains a number of wards with extremely high levels of deprivation. Prior attainment data suggests that students are close to national average.

Ofsted September 2021 said:

“There are high expectations of every pupil at Tibshelf Community School. Teachers and leaders are ambitious of what pupils can achieve academically and how they can develop personally. Pupils have very strong relationships with staff at the school. There is a feeling of family and community which is evident and pupils say they are happy and feel safe”

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