Science, Create and Design Engineering Technician
The Stephen Perse Foundation
Cambridgeshire
- Expired
- Salary:
- The Stephen Perse Foundation has its own competitive salary scale
- Job type:
- Part Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- October/November 2017
- Apply by:
- 11 October 2017
Job overview
Role description: Delivery of Technician support in Science, and Create, Design and Engineer.
Main responsibilities to include:
To coordinate equipment for lessons
· To work alongside teachers to provide technical assistance within occasional specified lessons, particularly when scroll saws or Lino-cutting tools are in use.
· To oversee the storage and maintenance , including inventory maintenance of the technical equipment in the Science and Art Room
· To provide support for the teachers off-site when on educational visits.
· To set up audio and lighting in preparation for lessons, assemblies and presentations.
· To adopt a flexible style in order to tackle a range of routine duties in both a Science and CD&E
· Any other tasks reasonably requested by the subject Teachers
· Maintain oversight of housekeeping issues in the Science Room and CD&E Rooms
· Inform Maintenance of any repairs that may be required
· To be flexible with a 'can do' attitude
Health and Safety:
· To oversee Health and Safety with the subject leader across the subjects of science and CD&E including the preparation and use of risk assessments
· To keep informed of CLEAPSS, COSHH and other guidelines possibly extra
· To liaise with the Health and Safety officer as appropriate
Deployment of duties:
· To ensure the most efficient deployment of your time across both subject areas.
· To prioritise technician tasks across both subjects (Science and Create)
· Provision of practical requirements, maintenance of resources and facilities, organisation and management of practical resources, development of practical resources and facilities
· To provide assistance when required in lessons
· To work with IT support as appropriate to ensure digital equipment is fully functioning and meeting the needs of the science and CD&E teacher for delivering lessons effectively
· To support with displays around school
· To keep equipment clean and tidy and fit for purpose, labelled and accessible
· To help operate a shared calendar and task list
· To be familiar with ordering systems and mindful of appropriate companies to use
Communication;
· To facilitate communication between both departments (Science and Create)
· To report any difficulties to the Head of subjects.
· To maintain a working relationship with technical staff working on different sites.
General Responsibilities:
· To build and maintain good working relationships with all colleagues
· To assist as necessary in other Foundation areas at peak times
· To work at all times towards the aims and goals of the Foundation and any individual objectives and targets you may have agreed
· Be proactive in identifying areas for improvements within the Foundation
· To act in accordance with Data Protection principles at all times
· To adhere at all times to Foundation Operational and Employment policies and procedures
· To take responsibility for own Health and Safety and that of your colleagues
This job description is not necessarily comprehensive and the position holder will be required to carry out such other duties as may be reasonably be required within the general scope and level of the post.
Attached documents
About The Stephen Perse Foundation
The Stephen Perse Foundation
The Stephen Perse Foundation is a family of independent schools combining excellent results and achievement alongside personal wellbeing located across Cambridge and Saffron Walden; educating boys and girls from nursery to sixth form where students gain an exceptional skill set that supports ambition, nurtures talent, encourages creativity and critical thinking leading to success and self-fulfilment.
History of the Stephen Perse Foundation
Formerly the Perse Girls School, founded in 1881, the Foundation developed to become the Stephen Perse Foundation in 2007, and first admitted boys into the Senior School in 2017. The Foundation has grown over recent years, adding a co-educational sixth form to its highly successful Senior School in 2008, and four nurseries and early years settings (three in Cambridge and one at Dame Bradbury’s in Saffron Walden) between 2010 and 2021. The Foundation has been fully co-educational in all settings since 2017 and now comprises four nurseries, two junior schools, a senior school and sixth form.
Predominantly a day school, there are currently 65 (mainly sixth form) boarders. As well as its reputation for academic excellence, The Stephen Perse Foundation is renowned for an innovative approach to education, and a focus on preparing students for the future.
Stephen Perse Foundation Schools
- Stephen Perse Nurseries & Early Years - Cambridge, Salisbury Villas
- Stephen Perse Nurseries & Early Years - Cambridge, Shaftesbury Road
- Stephen Perse Nurseries & Early Years - Madingley
- Stephen Perse Nurseries & Early Years - Saffron Walden, Dame Bradbury's
- Stephen Perse Junior School - Fitzwilliam Building, Cambridge
- Stephen Perse Junior School - Dame Bradbury's, Saffron Walden
- Stephen Perse Senior School - Cambridge
- Stephen Perse Sixth Form - Cambridge
Mission, Vision and Values
Our Mission Statement
At the Stephen Perse Foundation, our mission is to educate and inspire the contributors to tomorrow’s world: intelligent young people with the creativity, compassion, confidence and conviction to question, evaluate and improve society.
Our Vision Statement
To deliver this mission, our vision is to create and sustain an outstanding educational environment that:
- Fosters modern scholarship through exceptional teaching and a dynamic, flexible and rigorous academic curriculum
- Provides outstanding breadth of opportunity and quality of experience through a rich and varied co-curriculum
- Nurtures and celebrates individuality, wellbeing, personal development, and contribution to the growth of others, through superb pastoral care, social and emotional education, and learning support
- Champions and models equality, diversity and inclusivity, and social and environmental responsibility with a global outlook
Our Values Statement
With excellence and creativity in teaching and learning at the core of each of our schools and nurseries, we value the positive difference our students can make in the world through:
- Scholarship and the advancement of knowledge and understanding
- Kindness, courtesy, inclusivity and collaboration
- Diligence, independence and self-reliance
- Humility, reflectiveness and the pursuit of self-improvement
- Character, individuality, wellbeing and confidence
- Conserving the environment and living sustainably
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