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Science Technician (Potential for Senior Role)

Science Technician (Potential for Senior Role)

Woking College

Woking, Surrey

Salary:
Actual salary £16,137 pa (incl. of fringe allowance) for 35 hours per week, term-time only (39 weeks per year). FTE is £19,896, incl. of fringe allowance pa. Please see job info for Senior Technician salary.
Job type:
Full Time, Part Time, Permanent
Start date:
As soon as possible
Apply by:
20 August 2021

Job overview

The Role

The College requires a Science Technician to support scientific practical work within the Biology/Chemistry area of our growing Science department.  We are looking for a full-time member of staff with a passion for science to provide continuity for students in our successful and growing College.

We are looking for an exceptional candidate for this key role in the department. We expect high performance from all our staff and are looking for an impressive individual to inspire College students.  Candidates should demonstrate their ability and suitability to both the role and the culture of the College. 

This role could be a Senior Science Technician for the right candidate with appropriate experience. 

The Department

The Science Department consists of thirteen members of staff, including teachers and technicians. The college has eight teaching labs and two dedicated preparation areas in a modern, dedicated building which opened in Spring 2016. The college has approximately 500 student enrolments in A Level courses in Biology, Chemistry, and Physics as well as BTEC Level 3 qualifications in Applied Science, and Engineering and GCSE Science.

The Science department is a friendly and successful team, with a passion for developing and sharing evidence-based approaches to teaching and learning.  We help our students achieve outstanding results across the sciences by providing stimulating teaching and personalised support. 

The department actively encourages students to pursue their interests in science outside of college. Many of our students participate in national science competitions and make use of extra-curricular opportunities to learn about employment in the scientific sector. We aim to maximise students’ achievements and aspirations through stimulating teaching and personal support

Application Information:

Start Date:  26 August 2021

Hours:   35 hours per week. Term-time only (39 weeks per year).  The College’s core day is 8.30am to 4.00pm.  

Salary: Actual salary £16,137 per annum (inclusive of fringe allowance) for 35 hours per week, term-time only (39 weeks per year).    FTE is £19,896, inclusive of fringe allowance per annum.

Senior role actual salary £17,587 per annum (inclusive of fringe allowance) for 35 hours per week, term-time only (39 weeks per year).  FTE is £21,646, inclusive of fringe allowance per annum.

Part-time hours (approx 25 hours per week) may be available, and would be paid at pro rata to the figures above.

Closing date:  9am, Friday 20 August 2021

Interviews:  to be held shortly after the closing date

Start date: as soon as possible

To Apply:

Please download the Application Pack and click the Apply Now button to access the Application Form and Recruitment Monitoring form (CVs will not be accepted on their own).

For further information or to return a completed Application Form and Recruitment Monitoring form, please contact:

Kirsty Crook, Personnel Officer:  email: kcr@woking.ac.uk

www.woking.ac.uk

Important information:

The College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Appointed staff will be subject to Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks. The College is committed to equal opportunities.

The College encourages all candidates to be familiar with Section 1 of the DfE paper on “Keeping Children Safe in Education” September 2020 and the College's Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy. These documents can be found on the College's Staff Vacancies page, and Policies page.

In line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) the College asks candidates to consider Woking College's Privacy Notice for Job Applicants, which can be found on the Staff Vacancies page of the College’s website.

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About Woking College

Woking College is an oversubscribed and highly successful college of over 1400 students drawing students from more than 60 different schools. Our very successful strategic focus has, for many years, been to create the very best environment for high quality of teaching and learning alongside the widest range of enrichment activities enhancing the cultural capital of our students. Alongside this we place a very strong emphasis on maintaining our wonderful community, we have a more diverse College population than might be thought of as typical for Surrey but we are determined to maintain our inclusive ethos. We are fully committed to innovation whilst maintaining a humane and caring approach for all members of the College community which has resulted in the doubling of the student population in recent years. These approaches have been key to securing Grade 1 ‘Outstanding’ in all seven categories in our October 2022 Ofsted inspection.

Woking College is enjoying record results, very positive value-added and an abundance of applications and quite rightly has a teaching and learning culture which is the envy of other institutions, indeed in recent staff surveys over 95% of College staff said they were proud to work at Woking College!

We have benefited hugely from an impressive transformation of the College’s estate over recent years, with the completion of a new Sports Centre in 2014, a new Arts Block in 2015 and a modern and larger Science Building in 2016. A full size 3G pitch was completed in 2020.  A £3m teaching block and another £3m project working collaboratively with an adjacent community centre will enhance our estate even further within this academic year.

We recognise the advantages of collaboration and have worked hard over the years to build and maintain close working relationships with other education providers and the Local Authority. The College has been a long-standing member of S7, the Surrey and Sussex group of Sixth Form Colleges, possibly the leading college consortium nationally, and we look forward to continued positive engagement with schools, colleges and the local community for the benefit of all.

With strong leadership from our passionate and committed senior leadership team, and with the support of excellent teaching and support staff across all areas, we look forward to the continued evolution of the College; we also look forward to meeting committed, engaging and passionate people who want to join us to further enhance the life-chances and choices of our students – which is of course our main mission as educators.

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