Design Technology Technician

Post:                           Design Technology Technician

Salary Scale:              Scale 3 (points 5 & 6)

                                   Pro rata salary (£21,775 - £22,114)                  

Responsible To:         Curriculum Leader for Design Technology

Contract type:            Permanent. Term Time plus two weeks 37 hours a week

Charlton is an 11-16 comprehensive school, well established in the heart of its local community.  We are a truly comprehensive school, admitting children from over 20 primary schools, with students’ prior attainment at KS2 broadly in line with National Average, with a slight bias towards higher ability range.

At Charlton we take pride in students’ progress, with learning at the heart of all we do. We know the importance of inspiring students to develop a thirst for learning, so our curriculum is broad, rich and matched to individuals’ needs.

Our emphasis on purposeful, relevant learning means that our students benefit from a range of visits, specialist teaching and extensive extra-curricular experiences. We aim for all our students to enjoy school, excel in their studies and attain outstanding outcomes.

Charlton’s Vision – Building Knowledge, Developing Character, Inspiring Futures

Our vision is to nurture happy, healthy young people who have the knowledge, academic achievement and strength of character to lead safe and successful lives in modern Britain, preparing them for their next steps in education or employment with a thirst for lifelong learning.

Charlton’s Values

At Charlton our ethos is built upon our three core values, we expect all members of the Charlton community to always exhibit these values:

·                 Respect

·                 Responsibility

·                 Resilience

We are tremendously proud of our school building. It provides first rate facilities, purpose-built for the 21st century. Our new build school opened in June 2016 and was the last school in the country to be completed under the Building Schools for the Future scheme. 

Additional investment in state-of-the-art ICT, Sports, Expressive Arts, Science and Technology, have been a great boost to students’ already rich curriculum of Foreign Languages, Humanities, English and Maths. We firmly believe that the new facilities will further strengthen our high performance across the school.

The school joined the Learning Communities Trust as an academy in December 2018. This is a multi-academy trust set up to serve the needs of the students in the Wellington and Hadley areas of Telford. This is an exciting development for the school, and we are already seeing the benefits of collaborating with other schools.

Following a recent Ofsted inspection (May 2023), the school has been judged to be good overall and good in all the separate judgement areas. We are delighted with the outcome, and that the dedication and hard work of our students and staff has been rightly recognised.

We are offering an exciting opportunity for an experienced Design Technology Technician to join our successful Technology team.

The Curriculum Technician will be based in our Design and Technology department as a key role within the team. You will be expected to offer a high level of practical skills to support the Curriculum Leader and the wider school. A flexible approach to meet the ever-changing demands of the curriculum is very important, as are excellent timekeeping and attendance. You will work across the whole department to offer support when required, it is essential that you are a team player. 

We are looking for someone who is enthusiastic and who can inspire the children to be passionate about their learning.

Our school is an equal opportunity employer, so we are committed to the safeguarding and protection of children and individuals. This post is subject to a DBS Enhanced Disclosure.

If you have a passion for teaching, we would love to hear from you!

Closing date for applications: Monday 11th November 2024

Interviews: Thursday 14th November 2024

Application forms and further information is available from the school website www.charlton.uk.com . Alternatively, you may contact Rachel Proctor rachel.proctor1@lct.education or call 01952 386806.

Sorry but CV’s will not be accepted.

The Learning Community Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All post holders working in regulated activity with children, are required to have an enhanced DBS check (including a check on the children’s barred list).

References will be required for all shortlisted candidates, prior to interview and these will be checked following the Learning Community Trust recruitment and selection process. In line with the Statutory Guidance Keeping Children Safe in Education an online check will also be undertaken for all shortlisted candidates prior to the interview. Shortlisted candidates will also be required to complete a criminal self-disclosure declaration, posts that involve working in regulated activity are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act, please note it is a criminal offence for individuals on the barred list for children to apply for any post working with children. For more information, please refer to The MOJ’s guidance on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975, for information about which convictions must be declared during job applications and related exceptions and further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.

We are committed to equality and diversity and follow the Safer Recruitment practices as set out in the Statutory Guidance - Keeping Children Safe in Education. For more information regarding our school’s commitment to safeguarding, please see our Child Protection & Safeguarding Policy here.