ICT Technician (Scale 4, Across Barking Abbey and Eastbrook School)
Barking Abbey School
Barking and Dagenham
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Salary:
- Scale 4 (Pt7£27,855.00 -Pt10 £29,139.00)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 31 August 2024
Job overview
ICT Technician
Start Date: ASAP
Permanent Contract
35 hours per week, Full Time
Salary Scale: Scale 4
An exciting opportunity has arisen at Barking Abbey School for someone to join our dynamic ICT Support Team, this could include working across Barking Abbey and Eastbrook School.
This role is integral to the daily smooth operation of the school and will provide a hardworking, ambitious and proactive candidate with great opportunities for growth and development, and to gain specialist knowledge and skills around supporting a large and extensive IT estate, spread across two campuses.
The role will be varied, and at times fast paced, enabling the successful candidate to develop skills and specialisms with software, hardware, networking and systems management.
The role will be in an expanding ICT support team of five staff, and the successful candidate will work closely with the Network Manager to ensure the school’s operational needs are met, and that staff and students receive first class support in their educational journey.
The successful candidate will have:
• Experience in supporting school ICT systems.
• A can do and positive attitude.
• The ability to prioritise and plan workload and think of innovative solutions to solve problems.
• A commitment to Barking Abbey’s high expectations and ethos.
• A desire to work collaboratively and to make a real contribution to the progress of a growing professional service department in school.
• Great communication skills with the ability to adjust communication to all levels of school stakeholder.
• Great troubleshooting skills, with the ability to logically work through issues to resolve problems quickly and effectively.
• A willingness to work flexibly in a varied role.
• The successful candidate will need to be flexible regarding working hours and location in order to meet the needs of the school during busy periods.
In return we can offer:
• A school where we get to know our students and staff well, find out what they are good at and develop their talents.
• A supportive and encouraging staff team.
• The opportunity to access a wide range of CPD opportunities within and beyond school.
• A school which understands the importance of staff well-being and workload management.
• A school where we get to know our students and staff well, find out what they are good at and develop their talents.
• A professional, friendly and supportive working environment
• A positive ethos with excellent behaviour reinforced by highly visible SLT and centralised behaviour systems.
Barking Abbey is a heavily over-subscribed dual campus secondary school in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, with a well-deserved reputation for academic excellence and a supportive professional environment.
The school is located less than 10 minutes walk from Upney tube and 15 minutes from Barking mainline station.
Barking Abbey celebrates its diversity, and we positively welcome applications from all sections of the community. If you are interested in making a difference in young people’s lives whatever your background or history please apply.
“Pupils learn and achieve very well... Pupils across both sites are happy and safe at Barking Abbey School… Pupils are motivated to work hard and enjoy positive working relationships with staff... Students new to the Sixth Form commented on how welcoming, inclusive and diverse the community is… Leaders prioritise aspiration and ambition.” (Ofsted, December 2022)
Please click here to find out more information about what it is like to work at Barking Abbey:
https://www.barkingabbeyschool.co.uk/home/join-us/staff-vacancies/
To find out more about how teachers can secure rented accommodation at a discounted rate of 20% please contact: info@bdsip.co.uk
Barking Abbey is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and is an Equal Opportunities Employer.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and a comprehensive screening process, including Disclosure check, will be undertaken on all successful applicants.
Online searches may be conducted for all shortlisted candidates and will be conducted for all successful candidates as part of our due diligence checks.
Attached documents
About Barking Abbey School
Barking Abbey is a heavily over-subscribed split site secondary school in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, and has a well-deserved reputation for its friendly and supportive atmosphere and its excellent academic achievements. With a large KS5 provision and Additional Resourced Provisions (ARP) on each of our campuses, the school provides a varied role for the right individual.
Headteacher
Tony Roe
Values and vision
Our school motto is 'Give and Expect the Best' and we do this by living our values each and every day. Bravery, Excellence, Self-Discipline and teamwork.
Barking Abbey School aims to provide world-class teaching and learning to all its students. Staff strive to offer outstanding pastoral care, and to deliver an inclusive and challenging curriculum while offering regular and robust assessment. The secondary school also has a programme of high-quality enrichment classes.
Recruitment process
We serve a diverse community and we positively welcome applications from all sections of the community. We also welcome candidates with a non traditional background. The most important thing for us is your desire and ability to make a difference in young peoples lives.
Our recruitment process is fair and transparent and designed to get the best candidate for the role. A sample of our recruitment process is listed below
- Advert placed on TES, internally and in LBBD boards
- Blind shortlisting by a panel against the Job description. Potential applicants are scored. Shortlisting by at least 3 people including one SLT.
- Shortlist for interview based on scores from shortlisting.
- Interview process will depend on role and may include; lesson observations, data or admin tasks, panel interviews, student panels and a final interview
- All assessed tasks are scored according to set criteria and scores are moderated to ensure consistency.
- All panel interviews and final interviews are scored. Each interview has a moderation process to ensure consistency of scores where appropriate. Questions are common to all applicants.
- Feedback is provided by a member of the panel.
Ofsted report
A clear theme running through the school is the positive behaviour of pupils and their excellent attitudes to their work. Pupils are keen to do well and seize the opportunities given by teachers to work hard. They conduct themselves well around the school and are polite and respectful towards others. These attitudes have a strong impact on pupils' achievements because they enable learning to take place without undue interruption.
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