Art Technician
Bethany School
Kent
- £13,492.50 per year
- Expired
- Salary:
- £12.85 per hour
- Job type:
- Part Time, Fixed Term
- Start date:
- September 2022
- Apply by:
- 22 July 2022
Job overview
Fixed term one year contract
Working 8.30am – 1.30pm, Monday to Friday, term time only
Bethany is a vibrant, forward-looking School with a supportive Staff and Pupil Community. We are looking a part time inspirational artist with qualifications in their specialist field, to uphold and develop our creative profile. The successful candidate will perform Art technician duties during contracted hours but would also have access to our art studio and facilities to produce their own work.
Principal Accountabilities
- Prepare specialist materials for the teaching day;
- Maintain storerooms and resources (order, receive and store stock);
- Assist with Health and Safety within the department including updating risk assessments and ensuring classroom spaces are in safe and tidy order;
- Assist with mounting and display of work including for external exhibitions;
- Help obtain specialist materials at short notice;
- Provide support during pupil lunchtimes;
- Assist with the art scholarship provision where appropriate;
- Assist with open events, Speech Day, and other exhibitions;
- Help pupils with work where own skills apply;
- Organise and maintain the darkroom;
- Maintain I.T facilities, printers, inks etc.;
- Maintain textiles equipment including sewing machines;
- Displaying work in the Department and across the school;
- Act as School photographer at events, during school day;
- Understand or be willing to learn how to support with ceramics, such as kiln firing, with Textiles, and with Photography specialist areas;
- Adhere to all School Policies to include but not be limited to Safeguarding and Child
- To promote and safeguard the welfare of children and young persons for whom you are responsible and with whom you come into contact.
For further details, visit www.bethanyschool.org.uk/jobs/ or email recruitment@bethanyschool.org.uk
The closing date for applications is ongoing but ideally we are looking for a September start.
As part of your role, you will be required to adhere to all School Policies, to include but not be limited to Safeguarding and Child Protection, Code of Conduct and Health & Safety As well the continual promotion and safeguarding of the welfare of children and young persons for whom you are responsible and with whom you come into contact. All applicants must be willing to undergo enhanced child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.
These appointments will be made without regard to gender, age, or ethnic origin. Bethany School is an Equal Opportunities Employer.
About Bethany School
In addition to being a registered charity, Bethany is a co-educational, independent boarding and day school for pupils aged 11-18 years. There are 325 pupils in the School, including 110 boarding pupils. The majority of pupils remain in the School until they are eighteen and most proceed to University. There are 90 pupils in the Sixth Form and the A Level pass rate in 2019 was 95%. The 2019 GCSE pass rates was 85% at 9-4 (A*-C) grade.
Bethany enjoys an ever-growing reputation, both locally and further afield, for the quality of its teaching and pastoral care. As a result, pupil numbers are very buoyant. In recent years the School has undertaken a programme of building development, including the construction of an indoor swimming pool, an extension to the sixth form building as well as a dedicated fitness building The next phase of this development will include a purpose built performing arts space.
The School is a Christian foundation with a strong community life. All members of staff are expected to be in agreement with the Christian values and to attend Chapel with the pupils. The School is well known for its high level of pastoral care for pupils. In addition, it enjoys an international reputation for the education of dyslexic pupils. Class sizes are small, rarely reaching more than eighteen pupils, and considerably less in the Sixth Form.
The School is set in beautiful Kent countryside and the 60-acre campus is spacious and attractive. It lies in the hamlet of Curtisden Green, mid-way between Goudhurst and Marden. Central London is less than an hour’s journey from Marden Station, as are Dover and the Channel Tunnel. For a small school, the high standard of sporting success and the extensive games programme are made possible by the expertise and commitment of the teaching staff outside normal lesson time. The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme also enjoys remarkable success, as do the Performing Arts. We have a hugely successful pupil/teacher/exchange programme with a senior school in Taiwan.
The School is forward thinking in all aspects of teaching, learning and curriculum and has created a 10-year vision, Bethany 2026, for its education provision.
Bethany 2026 is a school, which is:
• Providing an innovative education relevant to the 21st century;
• Encouraging the virtue of learning in young people delivering 21st century learning habits;
• Living our Christian values through excellent pastoral care.
• A flourishing school investing in the future.
Furthermore, the School has a unique philosophy of learning centred on developing excellent learning habits in its pupils in order to instil in them the ‘Virtue of Learning’. All teaching staff are encouraged to undertake their own action-based research through a teacher-led Professional Learning Community model.
In recent years the curriculum has been enhanced further and now includes GCSE Dance, and level 3 courses in Economics and Computing. In addition, all full-time staff are provided with a laptop computer and all pupils from Year 7 have their own laptop. This is complimented by a revised Computing curriculum in Key Stage 3 which includes coding and the opportunity for pupils to develop core computing skills. As a school we make use of Microsoft 365 for supporting teaching and learning and have a number of staff who are Microsoft Innovative Educators. We have used Teams to deliver a highly successful remote learning program during lockdown.
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