Technician - Design and Technology (Engineering and Food)

Fixed Term until July 2021 with an opportunity to extend
0.6 Timetable -35 hours/week (3 full days or 5 flexible days/part-time)
Daily start and finish time negotiable
Enquiries to recruitment@loretochorlton.manchester.sch.uk

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our ambitious and vibrant school! We are seeking to appoint a dynamic, hardworking and reliable individual to this post, working alongside teachers in the Design & Technology department under the direction of the Head of Department, Teacher of Food, Teacher of Engineering and Senior Leaders providing practical and administrative support to our team in line with H&S requirements. Training will be provided to operate machinery safely and relevant food hygiene courses.

About Loreto High School

• Part of the international family of Loreto schools and colleges and as such benefits from a 400 year old tradition and links with Loreto Sixth Form College and with Loreto schools both in the UK and worldwide. 

• Loreto High School is a ‘Good School’ at an exciting point in its school improvement journey “Leaders have the ambition and demonstrable capacity to further enhance the good quality of education which the school currently provides.” Ofsted 2019. 

• A small, friendly, inclusive, cohesive school where we get to know our students well, find out what they are good at and develop their talents “… a welcoming, caring and passionate school that really does know every child.” Ofsted 2019 Parent View 

• “A truly diverse, welcoming and joy-filled school in which staff daily model the gospel values expressed by Mary Ward and deliver extraordinary care to each unique member of the community.” Section 48 Inspection March 2020

• “School leaders and other staff pride themselves on the good relationships that they build and care that they have with pupils.” Ofsted 2019 

• Visitors tell us our students are calm and well-mannered and that our Catholic ethos is powerfully transmitted; “Inspectors were impressed by pupils’ positive interactions with one another and adults.” Ofsted 2019 

• We will support and develop you to become an outstanding practitioner. We are an aspirational, reflective and creative learning community where all adults are learners who strive rigorously for excellence in order to achieve the best possible outcomes for our students.

• We recruit, train and retain the very best staff driven by a strong culture of professional development and mutual support in the pursuit of excellence as standard. “The training programme which leaders manage is well planned and implemented.” Ofsted 2019

• All employees have access to support through Occupational Health and counselling, financial, legal and personal advice is provided through our Employee Assistance Programme which provides free 24 hour support.

 The successful candidate will:

• Be based in the Design & Technology department working with the Engineering and Food Teachers.

• Have some knowledge and experience of working with Design Technology

• Have an understanding about Health & Safety legislation

• Be proactive and able to operate workshop machinery 

• Possess an understanding of Food Hygiene

• Undertake or have undertaken a valid enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. 

Duties include:

• Setting up practical lessons
• Assisting in demonstrating practical lessons
• Providing support to Teacher and Students
• Arranging orders and deliveries
• Maintaining Equipment within the classroom
• Ensuring health and safety is being adhered to at all times
• Purchasing materials and equipment
• Ensuring practical work areas are safe and hazard free
• Ensuring equipment and materials prepared for lessons are to the specification of the
teacher requisitions, including making up special equipment or modifying from existing
equipment as necessary from instructions supplied by the teaching staff.

Equal Opportunities
We are an Equal Opportunities Employer and we positively welcome applications from all candidates regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or believe, sex and sexual orientation. We are committed to ensuring equality across our school, and that all staff are treated fairly, in line with our school policies. 

Safeguarding information
The school is fully committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and we expect all staff and volunteers to share the same commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment. 

The above post will be subject to enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks and a barred list check before making appointments to the post. The DBS check will reveal both spent and unspent convictions, cautions and any other information held by local police that is considered relevant to the role. Any convictions listed on a DBS check will be considered on a case-by-case basis. 

Any job offer will be conditional on the satisfactory completion of the necessary pre-employment checks including receipt of two satisfactory references. 

If you possess the necessary skills and experience, we invite you to submit an application. Your application should explain fully your suitability for the role as detailed in the job description and tailored to meet the Person Specification in terms of your knowledge, experience, skills, qualities and qualifications.