Art Technician
Surbiton High Senior School
Kingston Upon Thames. London
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2018
- Apply by:
- 4 September 2018
Job overview
Art Technician
Location: Kingston upon Thames, London
Tenure: Permanent, 38 weeks of the year (term-time plus 2 weeks)
(Monday to Friday, 8:30am – 4:30pm, 37.5 hours per week)
Closing date for Applications: 8:00am, Tuesday 4 September 2018
Interviews to be held week commencing: 10 September 2018
Surbiton High School’s dynamic Art Department seeks an Art Technician who is passionate about inspiring, encouraging and empowering our pupils in the subject.
Key Responsibilities:
This is a very varied role, but your areas of involvement include:
- Keeping the Art studio ordered and tidy
- Working with the art staff to prepare lessons
- Stock taking and ordering of materials
- Assisting with the department budget
- Ensuring health and safety procedures are adhered to
- Helping students build armatures or other structures as required
- Loading and unloading the kiln, firing the kiln (training can be provided)
- Making canvases for students
- Occasionally helping teachers in practical lessons, such as printmaking
- Taking minutes in the department meetings
- Contributing to the organisation and running of co-curricular and enrichment activities, as well as wider School initiatives where applicable
- Such other duties as the Principal may reasonably direct
The successful candidate will be likely to fit the following profile:
- A Fine Art background would be useful but not essential
- Ability to use woodworking tools for making canvases and building armatures
- Excellent IT skills essential
- Ability to carry heavy and bulky items
- Prior experience working within a school environment would be an advantage
- A good understanding of health and safety issues in a school environment
- High levels of organisational and self-management skills
- Self-motivation
- Ability to work cooperatively within a team
- Flexibility and openness to change
- Reliability
- Understanding of the need to maintain confidentiality
- Commitment to personal professional development
- Keenness to develop further in a well-resourced and supportive environment
- High levels of communication skills in English, both written and spoken, to enable effective communications with pupils and with colleagues
Surbiton High School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Please note that the School reserves the right to appoint at any stage during the recruitment process.
For any queries relating to the role or your application, please email recruitment@surbitonhigh.com
To Apply
Please apply online by clicking on the following link:
https://unitedlearning.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/1346663?cid=1567
Attached documents
About Surbiton High Senior School
- Surbiton High Senior School
- 13-15 Surbiton Crescent, Kingston upon Thames
- Surrey
- KT1 2JT
- United Kingdom
Surbiton High School aims to inspire, encourage and empower its staff and pupils to be the very best they can be.
We are a school where a passion and energy abound, a school with a real heart and soul, where we look beyond the A* to offer a breadth of opportunity which allows every pupil to flourish and every staff member to develop and succeed.
Surbiton High School is a school “brimming with energy and joie de vivre.” (ISI Inspection Report). We pride ourselves on being an extraordinary community where people matter, results count and where a passion for excellence drives everything we do. We feed our pupils’ minds, but we also care passionately about their character development and happiness. Our approach to education means that Surbiton High School pupils achieve the very best exam results and are also compassionate, authentic young people with strong values, keen to make a positive difference in the world.
Our inspirational staff are dedicated to delivering a rich curriculum and programme of co-curricular activities which challenge our pupils to explore ideas for themselves. Whether engaged in learning in the classroom, or through musical, artistic, sporting, enterprise or charitable activities, our pupils are constantly encouraged to connect with the wider world and embrace new experiences to build their confidence. All staff are expected and encouraged to play a full part in the academic, co-curricular and pastoral life of the School.
At Surbiton High School, we aim to bring out the ‘Best in Everyone’, and this resonates in the investment that we make in our colleagues. We recognise the importance of continuous learning and training and the School has a senior member of staff dedicated to supporting continuing professional development. We have a comprehensive whole School and individual INSET programme in place, including support for School Direct trainees as well as Newly Qualified Teachers (in our role as a regional NQT induction centre).
We actively encourage our staff to continue to develop their own expertise in the classroom and support their professional development through coaching and mentoring alongside professional qualifications such as: NPQML, NPQSL and MA courses in educational leadership. The School has a clearly developed leadership structure, offering extensive opportunities for career development and progression, including Heads of Department (Including Deputies) and Heads of Year (including Deputies) as well as Co-ordinators with specific responsibilities such as: Gifted and Talented, Oxbridge, Duke of Edinburgh and Expeditions.
Surbiton High School has approximately 1495 pupils aged between 4 and 18. Our Preparatory Schools are divided into the Girls’ Preparatory School and Boys’ Preparatory School, and the Senior School is girls only from age 11 upwards.
We are looking for applicants who are passionate about inspiring, encouraging and empowering our pupils and working with us to become the number one school of choice in South West London.
Principal
Rebecca Glover
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