What skills and experience we're looking for
DESIGN TECHNOLOGY TECHNICIAN
(Fixed Term Maternity Cover)
Hours of Work: 8.30am – 4.30pm (4pm on Fridays)
37 hours per week
41 weeks per year (38 term time weeks, 5 training days and 2 further weeks)
Tove Learning Trust Band F £25,183 - £25,584 per annum
Actual annual starting salary: £22,771 per annum
Required for June 2025, an experienced Design Technology Technician to provide high-quality support to staff and students within our Creative Technologies faculty. The postholder will undertake a range of duties, to include preparing equipment and materials, maintaining all equipment in safe order, and aiding with machining of wood, and plastics as required etc and to support the school in their Health & Safety compliance.
Applicants must be hard working, willing to be flexible and able to offer a wide range of practical skills. You must be self-motivated, totally trustworthy and reliable, able to take the initiative and to work as part of a team.
What the school offers its staff
• Unlimited tea & coffee
• Free porridge every morning
• Free Car parking
• Free food for staff for Parents evenings
• Discount for staff children - Paris St Germain Football Academy holiday camps and player development programme
• Bike to work scheme
• Staff socials
• Weekly prize draw for staff
• No emails at the weekend and after 5pm
• Travel and expenses paid for training
• Chromebook for teaching staff
• Priority admission for staff children
• Staff Special leave policy
• Cross networking and shared learning opportunities across all our schools in the Trust
• Career progression and promotion opportunities
• Ethos team to support students
• Discounted tickets for staff at selected shows at Stantonbury Theatre.
Join an Academy part of a highly supportive and growing MAT. Lord Grey joined Tove Learning Trust in April 2018 and is situated in Bletchley on the outskirts of the growing city of Milton Keynes. We achieved our GOOD OFSTED status in Summer 2022. Since then we have gone from strength to strength with improving GCSE and level 3 results; a football partnership with Paris St- Germain and winners of MK Inspiration Awards ‘Inspiring Secondary School’ 2023 and MK Educations Awards ‘Secondary School of the Year’; ‘Maths Team of the Year’ and ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ November 2023. The right candidate will join us on our exciting journey and enable us to continue to provide a great education for our amazing students as we prepare them for adult life. We have a strong collegial team who create a real atmosphere of collaboration and community who embody - Lord Grey Can!
Tove Learning Trust
The trust is committed to ensuring that all students achieve as highly as possible and we work hard to offer stimulating environments that enable every learner to progress and flourish. We have a small central team and a committed Board of Trustees that are focused on delivering outstanding outcomes. We aim to have academies that are excellent communities of learning where students thrive on success. There are seven secondary schools and one primary school in this growing Trust.
The Academy is committed to safeguarding children. The successful applicant will require an enhanced DBS check.
Further details about the role
A vacancy booklet, information for candidates booklet and the application form are all available on the vacancies section of Lord Grey Academy’s website:
Please note the application form and information for candidates booklet are available on the right hand side of the above link. Details on how to apply for this post are in the How to Apply Section of this booklet. Please do look at our recruitment video of our staff talking about working at Lord Grey and our document: Why work at Lord Grey?
Completed application form and covering letter should be submitted to Human Resources at Lord Grey Academy or emailed to hr@lordgrey.org.uk by 9am on Tuesday 22nd April 2025. Interviews to be held on Friday 25th April 2025.
Only successfully short listed candidates will be contacted.
Commitment to safeguarding
The Academy is committed to safeguarding children. The successful applicant will require an enhanced DBS check.