Design Technology & Art Technician

Salary: £18,704 - £19,533 pro rata (£23,115 - £24,140 FTE)

Hours:          35 hours per week (flexibility can be discussed for the right candidate)

Weeks:         39 weeks per year (term time only)

Welcome to the Design Technology and Art Departments

Design & Technology is a thriving and successful department delivering woodwork, plastics, electronics, and graphics in two well equipped workshops. As well as these two workshops, we have two material preparation areas and the department is well supported with state-of-the-art equipment.

We are a warm and friendly department, and all staff are passionate about Design & Technology. We have high expectation of all our students and are very proud that our D&T GCSE results are consistently one of the highest in the County.

The Art and Photography department is an inspiring and creative space, where we pride ourselves in providing students with an opportunity to be open minded, inquisitive and to be as experimental with materials as possible. We work in both 2D and 3D in an array of mediums. We challenge and expose our students to ideas and artwork that make them not just think about the aesthetics of what they are producing but also consider the concept of their work, whether it be spiritual, moral, social, or cultural. We work across two art classrooms, a photography classroom/studio space and a computer suite.

The Art and Photography team is passionate and committed to the success of all our students and we teach students that no idea is unachievable, this includes material or scale, if they are prepared to put in the time, research, practice into developing their ideas.

We look forward to welcoming you to Eggar’s School.

Job Description

The main purpose of the role is to be responsible for the daily resource management of the Art and DT departments through ensuring that classrooms have the correct materials and equipment for lessons, whilst following the latest Health and Safety legislation.

Duties include:

• Following procedure for stock control and ordering of project resources
• Setting up equipment for practical lessons
• Maintenance and cleaning of equipment including identifying and reporting repairs that may be needed
• Confidence in using machinery and tools (training will be given)
• Maintaining tidy classrooms/workshops and ensuring materials are safely stored and labelled
• Mounting work and creating displays
• Writing and reviewing Health and Safety procedures including Risk Assessments and COSHH data sheets
• Scheduling annual machine inspections and liaising with inspection stafF
• Undertaking training in order to effectively carry out this role
• Ad hoc duties as directed by line managers

Please return completed application forms to joinus@eggars.hants.sch.uk.

No CVs will be accepted.

Start Date: September 2024

Please note that we encourage early application and we may interview and appoint ahead of the deadline if a suitable candidate is found.

Eggar’s School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff to share this commitment. All successful candidates will be subject to a DBS check and other relevant employment checks.

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