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  • Start date details

    As soon as possible

  • Closing date

    14 January 2026 at 11:59pm

  • Date listed

    10 December 2025

Job details

Job role

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Subject

Science

Working pattern

Full time: Monday to Friday 8.00am to 4.00pm, 39 weeks term time plus 16 days during School Holidays

Contract type

Permanent

Pay scale

Support Staff Pay Scale 8

What skills and experience we're looking for

The role of the Science Technician is as follows:

  • to assist in ensuring that a safe, effective, and efficient laboratory technical service is provided for students and teaching staff within the department;
  • the trialling of both examination and non-examination practicals to determine that practicals will work in lessons and within the time constraints of a lesson;
  • to provide technical advice and assistance in the classroom to support students and to assist teaching staff with the provision of learning activities;
  • to ensure the health and safety requirements and that other relevant regulations are adhered to, including the completion and recording of necessary checks and risk assessments;
  • Contributing to the overall ethos, work, and aims of the School.

The Science Technician will normally be based on the School site, but may be required to work elsewhere from time to time in order to fulfil his/her responsibilities.


What the school offers its staff

Every School has its own traditions, its own ethos, its own identity, and its own purpose. The purpose of Westcliff High School for Boys (WHSB) is to provide an excellent education for our pupils, supporting them in their journey to adulthood by developing character and intellect within a safe, happy and scholarly community.

To this end, WHSB provides exceptional teaching and a wealth of extra-curricular activities to develop the Learner Profile attributes in our pupils through a unique education filled with exciting, challenging, and enjoyable experiences. Today, we continue our proud tradition as a Grammar School serving pupils within the local community and actively promoting the wonderful opportunities we can offer to local children and their families.

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

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 will not be accepted for this application.

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About Westcliff High School for Boys Academy

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 18
Education phase
Secondary school
School size
1292 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 18
Ofsted report
View Ofsted report
Phone number
01702 475443

Westcliff High School for Boys is an Outstanding Academy Grammar School located in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex.

At WHSB we continue to hold dear our values and traditions whilst fostering academic excellence and a dynamism which allow us to provide a twenty-first century world class education.

Our record of outstanding success is reflected in our outstanding A Level and GCSE results and we are committed to providing the highest standards in all aspects of our provision for pupils.

We currently have around 870 boys on roll in Years 7 to 11, and 330 students in our mixed Sixth Form.

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