Science Technician
Wadham School, Crewkerne, Somerset, TA18 7NT9 days remaining to apply
Start date details
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Closing date
30 June 2025 at 9am
Date listed
19 June 2025
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subject
- Science
Working pattern
- Part time: 20 hours per week, term time plus INSET days Hours 9.30AM to 2.30PM
Contract type
- Permanent
Actual salary
- £11,295-£11,655
Pay scale
- Grade 14 Pt. 4-6
What skills and experience we're looking for
20 hours per week, term time plus INSET days
Hours 9.30AM to 2.30PM
Salary Scale: Grade 14 Pt. 4-6 Actual salary (£11,295-£11,655)
Deadline for applications to arrive at the school: 9:00 AM Monday 30 June 2025
We are seeking a passionate, energetic and ambitious Science Technician to join our expanding team of staff at Wadham School. This is an exciting opportunity for you to join our school where staff morale is high and classrooms are quiet and purposeful places where learning takes place. (Ofsted 2025).
We are a close-knit community school of 760 students with an amazing team of staff that support each other in helping our students become the successful and confident global citizens they deserve to be. As the last local authority maintained secondary school in Somerset, this is your chance to come and be part of something unique.
We are looking for an outstanding individual who will relish the opportunity to:
- Work closely with our dedicated, friendly team of 7 Science teachers and an experienced Science Technician
- Be passionate about Science and the opportunities it presents to students to engage with learning
- Work to ensure positive outcomes for students and to provide a healthy and nurturing environment for teaching and learning of Science
You are likely to be someone who:
- Can demonstrate a background in a Science related field
- Would like to be involved with the students’ learning in the classroom
- Enjoys being part of a team and wants to help develop Science education within the Science team
- Enjoys working with young people and engages with the development on new curriculum ideas
What the school offers its staff
- Part time hours with term time only (plus INSET days) working days
- Voluntary pension scheme through Somerset County Council
- Onsite parking (on a first come - first served basis)
- Training and CPD in safeguarding, health and safety and other relevant courses
- Strong and supportive leadership, who place value on learning beyond the classroom
- Fulfilment, in knowing that you matter, and the work you do makes a positive difference to the lives you touch
Further details about the role
For job description/person specification and an application form please visit our website: www.wadhamschool.co.uk
Please Note: we do not accept applications by CV
Visits to the school or an informal talk with the Headteacher are warmly encouraged.
For all enquires please contact recruitment@wadhamschool.co.uk or telephone 01460 270127
Wadham School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. Rigorous checks will be made of the successful applicant’s background credentials, including enhanced DBS checks and information on the public domain on social media platforms.
“Life in all its fullness” – John 10:10
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
About Wadham School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, Church of England, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 805 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Wadham School website
- Email address
- recruitment@wadhamschool.co.uk
- Phone number
- 01460 270127
Are you looking to work in a Good school (Ofsted, June 2019) with a community working together for the best possible outcomes for young people?
Wadham School is friendly, vibrant and forward looking. It is an exciting time at Wadham School. We strive to be a school which uses an evidence based approach to teaching and an ethos and drive for the school to be much more than just learning in lessons. A varied programme of extra-curricular activities and house competitions provides an exciting opportunity for staff to be involved in the wider school community. At our core is an aim, through everything that we do, to develop a sense of hope, a hope which will encourage and support students in becoming the best that they can be.
The school serves a beautiful area of South Somerset with excellent links to the wider South West, Bristol and Bath and direct train links to London from Crewkerne itself and Taunton.
If the above gives you a picture of a community that you would be excited to be part of then the students and staff at Wadham School invite your application and would love to meet you.
Arranging a visit to Wadham School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@wadhamschool.co.uk.
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