Art Technician

The Halley Academy is now recruiting for an Art Technician (part-time) to join us from September 2024, or sooner if possible. 

This is a truly fantastic opportunity for a passionate art technician to become part of a well-established, highly collaborative and successful visual arts team that works hard to ensure that students enjoy a challenging, dynamic and rewarding visual arts curriculum. All students study art in Years 7-9 as part of our International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme, and the subject is popular at GCSE in Key Stage 4, and as part of the IB Diploma programme in Key Stage 5. Our curriculum is enriched through frequent visits to galleries in Central London, and our brand new, state-of-the-art visual and performing arts centre will be opened in April 2024. 

If this sounds like an environment within which you would like to work, apply to join our team. The successful applicant will be enthusiastic, flexible, well organised and able to work as part of a team, as well as having the ability to work alone when required. 

We deem this to be a great position on the basis that;

• We offer a vibrant and committed visual arts department that is passionate about art and dedicated to supporting students throughout their learning experience and securing the best possible outcomes. 
• We offer pupils the very best in learning opportunities by delivering high-quality teaching via our bespoke curriculum, alongside inspiring extracurricular opportunities. 
• We believe in developing staff into outstanding practitioners through our excellent CPD programmes. 
• This is further supported through our membership of the Leigh Academies Trust which provides regular teach-meets and co-operative training sessions within the trust to facilitate staff and student growth.

Key responsibilities, as outlined in the job description, include;

• Set high expectations that inspire, motivate, and challenge students.
• Promote good progress and outcomes by students. 
• To prepare materials and equipment for practical lessons 
• To maintain and monitor consumables and equipment in Art to ensure all pupils are able to access a wide range of materials and processes as part of their Art provision 
• To maintain and monitor stock control 
• To assist the Director of Learning in the ordering of materials and equipment 
• To carry out weekly material and equipment checks across all Art rooms 
• To assist staff in the production and updating of Visual Art displays 
• To provide technical support to staff during lesson time as required 
• To support small-group intervention for key exam groups in art 
• To work alongside the art department in preparing standardisation materials for exam moderation 
• To prepare art exhibitions throughout the year 
• Carry out weekly Health and Safety checks on all equipment and report directly to the Director of Learning
• To undertake any Health and Safety training as required by the DOL. 

The Halley Academy: We are an aspirational, disciplined and inclusive academy where human-scale education, a dynamic curriculum, and excellent teaching and pastoral care, maximise student achievement. 

Our core values - respect, achievement, collaboration, integrity and resilience - permeate everything we do. We believe in the potential of every student. We champion the highest outcomes for all young people. Our staff are driven by the belief that education can transform our students’ lives.

It is for this reason why we are so proud to be a caring community where everybody feels empowered and supported to be the best version of themselves. Students are inspired to work hard, play an active role with the world around them, and to achieve more than they thought possible. Safeguarding is of paramount importance; our students are happy, safe and successful in our care. 

We build strong partnerships with parents and carers, working closely together to ensure all students enjoy a fulfilling and rewarding education. Our teachers lead with professionalism and scholarship; they are experts in their field and love sharing their knowledge and enthusiasm for their subject with their classes. All of us are part of a warm and compassionate family of staff, Governors and Trust colleagues who have boundless ambitions for those we work with and a deep commitment to learning and self-improvement. We know that working with children every day is the best job in the world. 

The Halley Academy has a diverse and dynamic staffing body of committed, creative and hardworking educators who enjoy coming to work as they benefit from: 

• A calm, organised and professional learning environment; 
• An academy culture that is committed to the holistic development of children; 
• Evidenced-based teaching and learning policies rooted in the strongest possible evidence about how children learn best; 
• A clear and consistent behaviour policy which ensures that disruption to learning is minimal; 
• A visible and approachable leadership team; 
• A comprehensive weekly CPD programme that supports all staff in their academic and pastoral roles; 
• Opportunities to collaborate with, and learn from, colleagues across the Leigh Academies Trust.

Our future plans are found in our Vision 2030 document available on our website.

Click here to view the benefits available to all LAT employees from day one.

Our commitment to safeguarding: Leigh Academies Trust and all of our academies are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We adopt a fair, robust and consistent recruitment process across all academies and business units which is inline with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. This includes online checks for shortlisted candidates - you can read more about this in our Recruitment Guidance. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check.

Our commitment to equality and diversity: As a Trust, we are passionate about diversity and recognise that as individuals, we all bring something unique to the role regardless of any protected characteristics which is why we treat all of our people equally, without compromise. We are committed to providing equality and fairness throughout our recruitment and employment practices and not discriminating on any grounds.

Based on the quality and quantity of applications received, Leigh Academies Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy sooner than the specified closing date. Applicants will be notified of this where possible. Therefore, early applications are encouraged.