Hours: 36.5 with flexibility to attend any other meetings/events outside normal working hours when required, term time only plus 5 days to be worked over the school holidays for the school Academic year.
We are looking for an enthusiastic individual who is interested in Food and Art to join the school. This post is a vital role in the school and allows our students to explore learning via practical work and using excellently prepared resources.
The successful applicant will join our Technology and the Arts Faculty and help to deliver the practical equipment and resources to students ranging from Year 7 to A-level. Through prepared demonstrations and equipped class practicals, the students are enthused about the world of Food, Textiles, and Art.
Do you have a real passion for helping children succeed in creative subjects? Then this is the role for you.
Our ideal Candidate will have:
* Ideally worked in a school environment with previous experience of a Technician Role; this isn’t essential as training in the role would be given.
* Ability to plan and organise tasks effectively.
* Ability to use IT.
* Willing to undertake appropriate training to meet the needs of the job, including First Aid training.
Core Purpose: To provide support for teaching staff within the Technology and Arts Faculty, by providing resources and materials to ensure students receive creative and effective practical sessions allowing them to achieve or surpass their expected levels of progress.
Responsibilities:
* To support teachers and students in practical lessons and where authorised to do so by a member of teaching staff, to demonstrate the safe and effective use of equipment and activities to students.
* Promoting healthy eating.
* To prepare materials, resources and set up equipment for use in lessons. This may include: preparing ingredients for food lessons, putting out cooking equipment, cutting slabs of clay, cutting lino, cutting fabric, setting up sewing machines, and setting up printing equipment.
* Monitoring of equipment with specific health and safety requirements (Lino tools, craft knives, sewing machines).
* To carry out a weekly Health and Safety checks and audit of renewable and non-renewable equipment, materials, and resources.
* To support with ordering materials, stocktaking, and checking all deliveries of resources.
* To keep tools and equipment in good working order.
* To carry out routine maintenance of classrooms, equipment and additional rooms, including the safe disposal of waste materials.
* To take responsibility for management of Health & Safety checks to all machines and classroom environments, including updating subject-specific risk assessments.
* To organise and store materials, resources and equipment in stock cupboards.
* To retrieve and clear away materials and equipment to support the smooth running of lessons.
* To put up faculty displays under guidance from staff.
* Exam preparation - supporting staff and students with technical requirements and supervision of machinery/tools as required for their individual projects.
* To undertake any other duties not detailed above commensurate with the level of the post.
This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016). Therefore, the ability to speak fluent English is an essential requirement for this role. Please visit our school website to apply.
We welcome visitors to the school. Please contact us if you would like to arrange a visit.
Please contact the Recruitment Team if you would like further information regarding this role or the school in general; please email us at recruitment@moseley.bham.sch.uk.
Please note this advert may close when sufficient applications are received. Interviews will take place on Tuesday 11th February 2025.
This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to necessary pre-employment checks, including: an enhanced DBS; Prohibition check (where applicable); Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work. All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references. An online search will also be carried out on all shortlisted candidates.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013, and 2020. This means that when applying for certain jobs and activities, certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.
This post is not part of the City Council and the successful candidate will not hold a Birmingham City Council Contract of Employment.
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