Art Technician
The Wey Valley Academy
Dorset
- £20,780.18 - £21,443.50 per year
- New
- Salary:
- Support Staff SCP4 - SCP 6
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- ASAP
- Apply by:
- 20 December 2024
Job overview
Wey Valley Academy is looking for an Art Technician to provide technical and administrative support to teaching staff in the Art Department, including in-class support with pupil activities and to support the teaching staff within the Art Department to ensure the safe and proper use of maintenance of resources and equipment.
The main duties include:
- To prepare and maintain classrooms and workshops, teaching resources and materials for use by staff and pupils ensuring an orderly and safe environment.
- To remain on stand-by during lessons to support the teacher and assist with materials, practical lessons and demonstration experiments when needed.
- To maintain and undertake basic repairs to apparatus, machinery and equipment where practical to do so or arrange alternative servicing by approved contractors.
- To ensure the organisation, maintenance, ordering and collection of supplies and equipment.
- To maintain appropriate records including stock control inventories, allocation of relevant materials and resources, department expenditure and service schedules.
- To carry out general administration within the faculty including photocopying, printing, display, taking photographs of pupil work, etc.
- To undertake first aid training and administer basic first aid as necessary.
- To be responsible for the safe handling, storage and disposal of chemicals and other materials in accordance with the relevant regulations and Academy procedures.
- To ensure that Health and Safety requirements and other relevant regulations (e.g. COSHH) are adhered to and observed. This may involve undertaking regular checking procedures and risk assessments, as appropriate to the work area.
- Create one off pieces of art work including scaffolding to exhibit 3D outcomes, installation work, textiles and ceramics within the department.
- Performing Arts Technician – once a week.
- Social Media/Marketing.
What we have to offer
- A visible and approachable senior leadership team and an enthusiastic and committed team of teachers and support staff.
- A strong support network both within the school and across Authentic Education.
- An Employee Assistance Programme including in the moment support and counselling sessions with an external provider.
Should you wish to arrange a visit or an informal discussion regarding the role, please contact Victoria Simmonds; HR Academy Lead at Wey Valley Academy. victoria.simmonds@wva.weareauthentic.education
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About The Wey Valley Academy
- The Wey Valley Academy
- Dorchester Road, Weymouth
- Dorset
- DT3 5AN
- United Kingdom
Wey Valley Academy is a 990 PAN- pupil school which currently has 863 students. Wey Valley Academy joined Ambitions Academy Trust in 2019 and educates Boys and Girls aged between 11 and 16.
We believe that education should empower young people, giving them the knowledge to make sense of the world around them and the tools to shape it. Our curriculum gives students access to the best that has been thought and written across academic disciplines. This is supported by a broad range of additional extra-curricular opportunities which we strongly encourage students to make the most of via our enrichment curriculum. The Academy has a proud history of sporting excellence and students can also take part in a thriving Duke of Edinburgh Award programme or involve themselves in our dramatic productions and musical performances. Whatever interests a student has, they will find something for them at Wey Valley.
Visitors to the Academy often comment on the calm and purposeful atmosphere that they find, and the respect that students show towards one another and their teachers. We are a vibrant learning community that places learning at the centre of everything it does. Our expectations are high and whether you are reading this as a prospective student, parent, carer or member of our staff team, we hope you want to join us as we rapidly improve the quality of education on offer.
At Wey Valley Academy we are dedicated to promoting the British Values which will ensure that our students develop a strong sense of social and moral responsibility. We prepare our students for a life in Modern Britain by developing an understanding of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs.
Our Vision and Ethos.
A broad and balanced curriculum which is accessible and will challenge students on an academic and personal level is vital, as is building a young person’s confidence, resilience and communication skills through a student-centred community.
This will empower them to be central in driving change and shaping the future of the education we deliver at Wey Valley Academy. It will also provide students with life skills and support them in being the very best they can be.
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