Apprentice Laboratory Technician
Lakelands Academy
Ellesmere, Shropshire
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- Expired
- Salary:
- £3.70 per hour National Minimum Wage for Apprentices
- Job type:
- Full Time, Fixed Term
- Start date:
- September 2018
- Apply by:
- 21 August 2018
Job overview
Apprentice Laboratory Technician
To commence 4th September 2018 (or before if available)
24 month fixed term apprenticeship
37 hours per week, full time
£3.70 per hour
This is a fantastic opportunity to begin your career in science. Responsible for laboratory based tasks you will also assist in ensuring a safe, effective & efficient laboratory service, including providing technical advice & assistance in the classroom and ensuring that health & safety requirements & other relevant regulations are adhered to.
You will be working in our modern, state of the art laboratory learning environment, working alongside our friendly & experienced team providing front-line services to our students. Excellent communication, customer service and team working skills are therefore essential. This role offers an excellent opportunity for enthusiastic individuals with a passion for Science to start a technician career and be part of team with a reputation for delivering outstanding learning opportunities On the job training and support will be provided by experienced scientists throughout the course of your apprenticeship which will be wholly delivered as work based learning.
The Apprentice Laboratory Technician is responsible for providing administrative, practical and classroom support for the Science Department. Responsible to the Faculty Leader for Science and Physical Education you will work alongside the Senior Science Technician and be required to work closely with teaching and non-teaching staff and have contact with students, parents, suppliers and others.
The successful candidate will have GCSE qualifications grade C or above in English and Maths and the following desire skills and personal qualities:
- Willingness to undertake specific training
- Excellent ICT skills
- Ability to demonstrate excellent organisation and administrative skills
- Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, including excellent telephone skills
- Have an appreciation and understanding of the importance of confidentiality and sensitivity and an ability to use these skills in dealing with students, parents and staff
- Ability to demonstrate skills needed to work effectively with young people and adults
- Commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people
- To understand and have a strong commitment to equal opportunities for all members of the school community
- Common Sense
- Willingness to learn
- Helpful and positive nature
- Co-operative spirit/ Can do attitude/problem solving approach
- Reliable, honest and trustworthy
- Ability to work on own initiative
- Flexible and to have the ability to work in a variety of different settings
- Excellent time management skills and an ability to prioritise work effectively
- Ability to work calmly and consistently under pressure
- Willingness to maintain general laboratory cleanliness and equipment (e.g. Clearing away practical lessons and washing up the glassware)
- Commitment to the values and ethos of the School
If you would like some more information or if you would like to visit the Academy please contact Alison Skone on 01691 622543 or to apply for this fantastic opportunity please visit our website to download an application pack and return your completed application form to Alison Skone via email at admin@lakelandsacademy.org.uk. Or alternatively click appply to send your completed online application form.
Closing date for all applications, Wednesday 22nd August 2018
Interviews will be held week commencing 27th August 2018
The academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
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About Lakelands Academy
Lakelands Academy serves the expanding town of Ellesmere and a rural catchment area surrounded by beautiful Shropshire landscape, often referred to as the ‘Shropshire Lake District’. The town and surrounding villages offer a huge variety of attractions, activities and experiences and benefit from good communication links with the West Midlands, Manchester, Liverpool and Chester all of which are under an hour away by car.
We are a successful, popular and well-respected 11-16 academy with a unique ethos; believing that creating an atmosphere of trust and care is so conducive to effective learning. Visitors often remark on the ‘family feel’ of our academy and how welcoming staff and students are.
At Lakelands Academy, we aim to get the best for and from each student. We intend to enable each student to realise his or her full academic, creative and physical potential and to develop social and moral values. Our aim is to prepare students to be successful learners, confident individuals and responsible citizens.
Our Academy is a community in which students, staff and parents are part of a happy, safe and caring environment. The academy was last inspected by Ofsted in June 2012 and was judged to be a “good school” where “relationships between teachers and students are strong and students are highly motivated to do well”.
We are a supportive learning organisation, not just for our students but also for our staff. We continually reflect on our own practice as teachers/leaders and recognise that we can all develop our professional skills, at any stage of our career. In doing so, we recognise that the most effective professional development occurs when teachers learn from, and with, each other.
Since converting to an academy in December 2012 funding secured from the Education Funding Agency has enabled the Academy realise its vision to embark on a programme of extension and site wide refurbishment to upgrade and extend the school’s facilities and significantly improve the school environment. This funding offers a unique opportunity for the academy to build on its current strengths and further improve the opportunities that are available to raise standards even higher whilst maintaining the same strong commitment to the highest academic standards.
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