Science Technician
Netherwood Academy
Barnsley
- £20,012 - £21,519 per year
- Expired
- Salary:
- Full time equivalent salary £22,369 - £24,054 per annum
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- April 2023
- Apply by:
- 26 March 2023
Job overview
Do you want to be part of a team which strives to generate rapid improvement?
Are you meticulous in your approach to your own work and in securing high-quality contributions from others in the team?
Are you passionate about making sure systems and processes run smoothly and efficiently?
Netherwood Academy is an 11-16 academy which opened in September 2012, set in an extensive £35 million campus. As part of Astrea Academy Trust, Netherwood Academy is in an exciting period of development.
As an integral member of the Science and Technician teams, you will have a keen eye for detail, and a commitment to supporting your colleagues to deliver the very best education possible - but, just as importantly, you will be completely dependable and able to deliver tasks and outcomes on time and to a high standard.
The ideal candidate will be experienced as a technician or in the lab, and will have an unstinting commitment to supporting colleagues. We need someone who is prepared to work hard under direction and under their own auspices to ensure the science department is efficient, organised and safe.
We are values-driven and our vision is to provide an inclusive, aspirational and academic education for all our students, so that all of them will learn, thrive and lead successful lives. We are unapologetically ambitious for every child, no matter what their background, prior attainment or needs. We want to ensure that all our students have the option to be able to go to university or aspirational alternative. We are not going to reduce expectations because of a child’s background or home life, or because they are new to English or have a special education need. In fact, the opposite is true. It is our job to redouble our efforts to help children overcome these barriers so that they can flourish.
We value our staff highly and treat workload very seriously. Our systems are high leverage, ensuring you can really focus on your core purpose.
What we offer:
- Support and progression opportunities
- Excellent support from the Astrea Trust Central team
- Highly visible/supportive senior leaders who have your back
- Excellent ongoing CPD, career development and promotion opportunities across the Astrea South Yorkshire region
- Opportunity to complete further qualifications
- An unrivalled professional progression model
Interested in applying?
If this is something you are interested in, if you are looking for a new challenge, have a passion for education or maybe all of the above, please take a look at the Applicant Brief to find out more about the role before applying.
We actively welcome visits and would be delighted to show you around our academy to appreciate fully our excellent learning environment (details in the applicant brief).
If you are joining us from another school, academy or trust we recognise your continuous service date with confirmation from your current employer. This can positively impact a number of entitlements, including increased annual holiday payments which represent an increase in salary. This can be discussed in more detail at interview.
Astrea Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts are subject to satisfactory background checks including references and enhanced DBS checks.
About Netherwood Academy
- Netherwood Academy
- Dove Valley Way, Wombwell, Barnsley
- South Yorkshire
- S73 8FE
- United Kingdom
Netherwood is an 11-16 secondary academy located in Wombwell, a short distance from both the A1 and M1, and set in extensive, modern grounds.
At Netherwood, we are looking for people to join an academy which is improving rapidly since its first Ofsted inspection in 2021, when the academy received a judgement of Requires Improvement.
Over the course of the past two years, there have been significant changes in terms of curriculum development, teaching and learning, personal development and behavioural culture.
Colleagues who choose to join our ranks will be clear about what they can bring to the academy – a high level of professional and academic knowledge, a willingness to subscribe to our ways of working, a commitment to hard work and collaboration and a sense of moral justice.
Netherwood’s future success is underpinned by a strong set of shared values which support the vision, shape the culture, and make a statement about what we hold dear:
Scholarship - We will be informed by the best of academic and organisational thinking and research, using this where we can and expanding it where possible.
Curiosity - We will ask searching questions, not take things on face value, seek out the best of what is known and engage in appreciative enquiry.
Tenacity - We will deliver on our promises and see things through to completion. We will embody pace, urgency and determination in our focus on improving outcomes for children and on our own performance; we will learn to bounce back from disappointment and make sure we are fully committed to getting it right next time, for ourselves and for the students
Respect – We expect to treat each other with respect, in all forms of communication and interaction, and we expect everyone to embrace and celebrate difference; we also expect respect of the academy and community environment
Responsibility – we accept responsibility and commit to ensuring we do not place barriers in the way of students achieving the very best outcomes they can, irrespective of their back-story; we expect students to also accept responsibility for their actions
We are committed to creating an environment where exemplary behaviour is at the heart of productive learning. We believe in high aspiration, high motivation and high achievement for all. In order to achieve this, we provide a clear behaviour policy, which ensures students and staff are supported to achieve the high standards we have set.
Fundamental to the values of the Trust is a core entitlement to a knowledge-rich curriculum; in order to achieve this, our students must have access to disruption-free learning and our teachers must be free to do what they do best. We focus heavily on deliberate practice, ensuring staff and students get ample opportunity to hone their skills and routines, and much of our CPD time is devoted to developing and embedding intellectual practice, based on the best research available to us.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Jonny Mitchell
Principal
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