Science Technician
Mulberry School for Girls
Tower Hamlets
- £29,364 - £30,852 per year
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Salary:
- NJC Pay scale 5
- Job type:
- Full Time, Fixed Term
- Start date:
- Immediately
- Apply by:
- 3 February 2023
Job overview
Mulberry School for Girls is looking for an experienced Science Technician to join our small yet busy team.
You will have an unshakeable belief that all children deserve an excellent school environment and your work will have a significant positive impact on students’ personal development, well-being and achievement.
Our School
An all-girls school in the heart of Tower Hamlets, steeped in achievement and accolades, providing inspiration and opportunity to provide a platform for student achievement.
• 1600 students on roll
• OFSTED rated Outstanding since 2010
Our Community
We are committed to supporting young people to overcome the barriers that poverty and social exclusion create, ensuring that all students are able to achieve their full potential. This has inspired us to build up a broad network of partnerships, incubating and invigorating student experience, opportunity, drive and success.
There should be no barriers to a child’s future and society should, and can, be a level playing field. Aspiring for this to be reality we promise to:
• Emphasise high quality subject teaching, reinforced by excellent support for learning and intervention.
• Deliver inclusion services that assist personal development.
• Provide excellent pastoral care so no student goes unsupported.
• Continually develop strong leadership and have high levels of expertise in education.
Our partners
We want our students to have access to the same professional connections which young people from more privileged backgrounds can utilise. To make this a reality we have a wide range external partners in higher education, business, industry, the arts and the sciences who contribute extensively and fundamentally to our extra-curricular activities.
• Bank of America Merrill Lynch
• Barts Health NHS Trust
• British Film Institute
• London Stock Exchange Group
• Mercedes-Benz Grand Prix Ltd
• National Theatre
• The Prince’s Trust
• Southbank Centre
• WOW Foundation
• University of Cambridge
The Role
The successful Science Technician will join a team of 2 Science Technicians and a Lead Science Technician. The successful candidate will be working closely with the Head of faculty and Lead Technician to ensure a seamless running of the Science laboratories, providing technical support to teaching staff and students.
You will provide a science technician service for Mulberry School for Girls at Key Stage 3, 4 and 5. Implementation and dissemination of all appropriate Health and Safety legislation and guidance with respect to science education, including C.O.S.H.H. to ensure that statutory safety regulations and safe practice is complied with, relating to teacher / technician skills and qualifications and student involvement in the classrooms and workshops.
What we’re looking for
You will have an unshakeable belief that all children deserve an excellent school environment and your work will have a significant positive impact on students’ personal development, well-being and achievement.
You will deliver the provision of technical support and assistance for the science team, in conjunction with the Senior Science Technician.
You will ensure the constructions, service and repair of equipment as required.
You will ensure safe and appropriate storage and disposal of chemicals as required.
Your will regularly work with teaching and non-teaching staff to assist with the delivery of creative, high quality graphic design and reprographic service.
You will Implement systems for meeting the needs of science practical work, including health and safety practices in the technician departments and appropriate risk assessments, in conjunction with the Senior Science Technician.
Bringing Down Barriers to Success
We are proud to inspire our students through a diverse and representative teams and welcome applications from every corner of the communities we serve.
If you have the experience and passion to energise Tower Hamlet’s next generation of leaders, creators and innovators, then we want to see how we can support you in that pursuit.
Encouraging a happy and healthy work environment
We take staff wellbeing seriously at Mulberry Schools Trust, here are just some of the great benefits for all staff.
• Local Government Pension scheme
• Free breakfast
• Free gym onsite
• Paid sabbatical opportunities
• Free onsite parking
• Subsidised staff restaurant with outdoor roof terrace
• Annual programme of conferences and Trust wide events with high profile speakers
• Cycle to work scheme
• Annual service award
• Long service award
Attached documents
About Mulberry School for Girls
A message from the CEO, Dr Vanessa Ogden
Mulberry School for Girls is a high achieving, over-subscribed and successful girls’ comprehensive school for pupils aged 11 to 18. It is a place where girls’ talents and abilities are nurtured in a safe creative space and where they can develop their ambitions and the power for self-determination. Our aim is that all pupils should leave the school as highly qualified, confident and articulate young women with a wealth of experience in the wider world. Outstanding academic achievement is very important for future success, as is the need to develop ‘Confidence, Creativity, Leadership’ and a life-long ‘Love of Learning’. We believe these things will enable our pupils to lead enriched, happy and fulfilled lives, making a contribution to their own community, to British society and to global well-being.
Mulberry is an inclusive school with a wealth of multi-agency support employed by us to support pupils and their families. Provision for special educational needs is excellent. There is an outstanding enrichment programme which includes Global Classrooms, women’s education conferences, Girl Guides, the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award and the Mulberry Theatre Company. Mulberry’s arts education programme is well-known in London and we count the National Theatre, the British Film Institute, the Donmar Warehouse, the Royal Court Theatre and Southbank Centre amongst our valued partners. There is also a strong family provision with a range of events, classes and courses for parents. We hope you will come and visit.
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