Technology and Art Technician (including Hospitality)
Barking Abbey School, A Specialist Sports and Humanities College, Barking, Essex, IG11 9AG14 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As Soon As
Closing date
2 October 2026 at 8am
Date listed
18 September 2026
Job details
Job role
- Other support role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time, full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full time equivalent salary
- £24,612.00 - £25,687.00 Annually (Actual) Salary Scale: 4 (Pt 7 £30,288 – Pt 10 £31,611, full time) Prorated salary range is likely to be approx. £24,612 – £25,687, (dependant on experience, weeks per year and continuous service). Based on working 35 hours per week, Term time only
Technology and Art Technician (including Hospitality) job summary
Technology and Art Technician (including Hospitality)
Commencing: ASAP
Salary Scale: 4 (Pt 7 £30,288 - Pt 10 £31,611, full time) Prorated salary range is likely to be approx. £24,612 - £25,687, (dependant on experience, weeks per year and continuous service). Based on working 35 hours per week, Term time only.
Permanent, 35 hours per week, term time only (Likely hours of work during term time are likely to be 8am to 4pm. (Subject to change to meet the operational needs of the school)
Do you enjoy working with young people? Are you an outstanding organiser who may have a passion for cooking or are you good general handy person that enjoys working with different materials and tools?
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Technology and Art Technician (including Hospitality) to join our school and make a real difference to the smooth and effective running of our Technology, Art and Hospitality departments. The primary purpose of the role is to provide day-to-day technical and organisational support, including preparing and setting up materials, apparatus and equipment for practical lessons, ordering and organising resources, maintaining stock and providing technical and in-class support to teachers and students.
Hospitality and Food Technology will form an important part of the role. You will support the preparation and organisation of practical food lessons, helping to ensure that cooking areas, equipment and resources are maintained safely and in accordance with appropriate food safety standards. You will also assist with the safe use and maintenance of tools, machinery and equipment, help maintain safe and tidy practical working environments, and support the effective organisation of resources across the departments. The role will involve working across both our Sandringham and Longbridge campuses.
Previous experience within Technology, Art, Hospitality or Food Technology would be beneficial; however, we are also interested in candidates with relevant practical or workshop-based experience and a willingness to learn. Specialist training and support will be provided for the right candidate. The person specification specifically allows for candidates willing to develop their experience of working within a food-based environment. You will work alongside supportive and talented colleagues and inspirational students in a busy and rewarding school environment. If you are practical, organised, enthusiastic and interested in making a difference to young people’s education, whatever your background or previous experience, we would be delighted to hear from you.
Barking Abbey is an Ofsted Outstanding heavily over-subscribed dual campus secondary school in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, with a well-deserved reputation for academic excellence and a supportive professional environment. The school is located less than 10 minutes walk from Upney tube and 15 minutes from Barking mainline station.
Barking Abbey celebrates its diversity, and we positively welcome applications from all sections of the community. If you are interested in making a difference in young people’s lives whatever your background or history please apply.
In return we offer:
A supportive and encouraging staff team
The opportunity to access a wide range of CPD opportunities within and beyond school
A school which understands the importance of staff well-being and workload management
A positive ethos with excellent behaviour reinforced by highly visible SLT and centralised behaviour systems
We are proud that Ofsted recently judged the school to be Outstanding in all areas. The report states; “This is a large and diverse school where difference is valued. Pupils, and students in the sixth form, are supportive and respectful of each other. Pupils’ conduct is exemplary, both inside lessons and around the school. Leaders have established simple and clear rules that everyone understands. Pupils are focused, engaged and participate well in lessons. Staff feel that their workload and well-being has been carefully considered by leaders. They appreciate their open-door policy”. (Ofsted, February 2024)
Please click here to find out more information about what it is like to work at Barking Abbey:
https://www.barkingabbeyschool.co.uk/home/join-us/staff-vacancies/
Barking Abbey is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and is an Equal Opportunities Employer. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and a comprehensive screening process, including Disclosure check, will be undertaken on all successful applicants. Online searches may be conducted for all shortlisted candidates and will be conducted for all successful candidates as part of our due diligence checks.
Further information about the job
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
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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Barking Abbey School, A Specialist Sports and Humanities College
- Organisation type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- Size
- 2418 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
Welcome to Barking Abbey school and thank you for expressing an interest in applying for a position here.
For me there are three simple things that I want us to achieve at Barking Abbey school.
First, our motto ‘Give and Expect the best’ leads us to want to be the best in everything we do. We have some of the best results in the area, we have pupils at the best universities, we have the most pupils on apprenticeships in the entire country, we have basketball players in the best leagues and so much more. We have all of this because we push our pupils and each other to excel. All of us try to be our best every day.
Second, I firmly believe that if you can’t see it you can’t be it. We want to give our pupils the chance to see successful people of every religion, colour and background whilst they are at school. Whatever their dreams
we want to support them and provide the networks and contacts to help them to achieve.
Finally, we want our pupils to have a voice in the world. To be confident enough to express their views and also to have the knowledge to be able to make an effective contribution. The more you know the more
powerful you can be in the world.
Sir Tim Brighouse said “If a teacher makes the weather the school creates the climate.” and I firmly believe this. It is our role as a leadership team to create the best possible learning environment for our teachers
to teach in. In return we expect the best possible teaching from them and our results show this over time.
If you share our ethos and values and absolutely believe in the potential of all young people then we can offer you the chance to make a difference and change our community for the better, and look forward to receiving
your application form and welcoming you to our school.
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