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PE Technician

PE Technician

Manchester Communication Academy

Manchester

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Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
Immediate
Apply by:
14 December 2017

Job overview

Manchester Communication Academy are seeking someone who is flexible and enthusiastic in their approach to work, who is able to work well within a team environment and demonstrate a positive approach towards children, young people, their families and carers. Excellent administration skills, attention to detail and accurate record keeping are essential in all aspects of work.

We are looking for someone who works well on their own with minimal supervision, with a high level of resilience to cope in a demanding and fast moving work environment and the ability to solve problems is vital. 

Lead responsibility for managing equipment availability, maintenance, practical resources and facilities. Assist, advise and demonstrate to students and staff in use of equipment and resources.  Liaise with teaching and support staff to provide an efficient service in the preparation of educational resources.

Key tasks:

1. To support the area of Health & Wellbeing.

2. To provide general clerical and administrative support

3. To set up equipment and resources ready for lessons

4. To maintain the learning environment; this includes:

  • Maintain equipment and ensure it is safe to use and safely stored.
  • To complete a termly stock check – and any as seen as appropriate during term
  • Develop and maintain an equipment booking system for PE lesson. 
  • Ensure stores, reception and other areas of the PE department are kept safe, clean and tidy.
  • To keep a daily records pertaining to borrowed kit, consent forms and other documentation as required to meet the demands of the clerical side of the department.
  • Monitor and maintain IT equipment including tablets, laptops and other media. This will also include daily checks
  • Laundry care of school team kits, spare kit and any other items as may be required from time to time. 
  • Prepare resources as required by teaching staff.
  • Maintain all first aid box contents
  • Assist with creating displays and digital media

  

Manchester Communication Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure for a Regulated Activity via the Disclosure and Barring Service. 


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About Manchester Communication Academy

Why Join Us?

Manchester Communication Academy is a highly successful 11-16 comprehensive school in north Manchester. In 2023, the school was placed in the top 10 % of schools nationally based on key stage 4 outcomes and has consistently secured student progress outcomes that are significantly above the national average.

Manchester Communication Academy is also host to Manchester Communication Research School, part of a national network of schools that is partnered with the Education Endowmment Foundation to support schools to effectively embed evidence informed practice that will break the link between family income and educational attainment. This means that the school is at the forefront of evidence informed practice and offers opportunities for involvement in wider national partnerships with other successful schools.

Manchester Communication Academy is part of Greater Manchester Academies Trust. Leaders and teachers across the Trust are driven by the aim of mitigating the impact of social disadvantage. This is achieved through a collective ownership from all leaders and teachers to prioritise the highest quality teaching and learning combined with effective partnerships with families and the wider community. We achieve this through recruiting on values; a significant investment in the highest quality, evidence informed professional development; and a highly skilled family partnership and social investment team.

The Trust is fully committed to it’s ethos of with you…for you…about you…Not just for our students but also for all of our staff.

Student and Staff well-being is high on our agenda and your professional development and interests are a priority for us. We want our young people to get the best possible deal and that can only be achieved if their teachers are happy, healthy and know that they are valued. Our commitment to you includes but is not exclusive to:

 No marking policy-feedback policy is evidence informed.

 No written reports.

 One Flexi-Day a year, fully paid.

 All quality assurance is collaborative and transparent-we do not apply judgements.

 All funeral requests granted without question.

 We expect you to attend your child’s nativity or open morning.

 No meetings after school.

 No additional cover outside of directed time.

 Teaching staff have 20% protected non-contact time.

 All detentions are centralised and facilitated by pastoral team, not teachers.

 We develop leadership positions and undertake shadow-staffing/succession planning

exercises to see who we need to retain.

 PM is called Performance Development and we focus on how to continue to thrive and excel

in the areas of your role that you already enjoy and demonstrate brilliance.

 All new staff are buddied up with a mentor outside of their faculty area.

 We make a big deal out of events that support your well-being, such as random acts of kindness, Macmillan coffee mornings, cultural diversity celebrations, Thank a Teacher. Staff are recognised and rewarded through our staff recognition scheme

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