Science Technician (Physics & Engineering)
Woking College
Woking, Surrey
- Expired
- Salary:
- Actual salary: £13,905 to £14,644 pa, depending on skills and experience, 25 hours per week, term-time only FTE £23,958 to £25,232 pa, depending on skills/experience. All figures are inclusive of fringe allowance
- Job type:
- Part Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- November 2024
- Apply by:
- 21 October 2024
Job overview
Rated "Outstanding" in every area, by Ofsted in November 2022, Woking College are proud to provide excellence in sixth form education.
"Staff feel proud to work at the College. They are exceptionally positive about the culture leaders have created. They describe leaders as visible, approachable and highly focussed on staff wellbeing. Leaders celebrate achievement frequently in staff forums which helps staff to feel recognised, highly valued and a member of the Woking College family."
The Role
This is a rarely available opportunity to join our team to help ensure the smooth running of the Science Department. The successful applicant will support the teaching staff and learners, for 25 hours per week, term-time only.
Our Science Technicians provide a vital role supporting staff and students, we are looking for candidates with a passion for physics and engineering – this is an exciting time to join the department within our friendly College. We expect high performance from all our staff and are looking for enthusiastic candidates who are passionate about science to join our team. Candidates should demonstrate their ability and suitability to both the role and the culture of the College.
The College day is from 8.30am to 4.00pm. The College aims to be as flexible as possible and suitable working patterns can be discussed with candidates to ensure there is appropriate coverage within the week.
The Department
The successful Woking College Science Department also offers A Level Biology, Chemistry and Physics, BTEC Engineering and BTEC Applied Science.
The Department has thirteen members of staff including teachers and technicians and has excellent facilities including eight teaching labs, a dedicated computer room and two preparation areas, all housed in a modern purpose-built building. Student enrolments are very healthy with over 500 students across Yr.’s 12 & 13 and a record number of applications to date for the 2024/2025 academic year.
Exam results are excellent with most students going on to study at their first-choice university including Sciences at Oxford and Cambridge. Ex-students are encouraged to return to the College to provide careers talks and peer mentoring.
The Department has a well-established Excellence and STEM programme supporting students in their applications to Oxbridge and to study Medicine and Veterinary Science. The College has close links with St George’s, and Brighton and Sussex Schools of Medicine who offer visiting speakers and student visits.
Students are encouraged to extend their studies outside their lessons and have great success in challenges such as the Physics and Chemistry Olympiads. Extra-curricular activities, visiting speakers and study support groups run by the Department further support student’s aspirations.
The Science department is proud of its friendly, dedicated team who share a passion for developing and sharing evidence-based approaches to teaching and learning.
Application Information:
Start Date: November 2024
Hours: 25 hours per week, term-time only (39 weeks per year)
Salary: Actual salary: £13,905 to £14,644 pa, depending on skills and experience, 25 hours per week, term-time only. FTE £23,958 to £25,232 pa, depending on skills/experience. All figures are inclusive of fringe allowance.
To Apply: Please download the Application Pack and click the Apply Now button to access the Application Form via the College website.
CVs will not be accepted on their own. Applicants must have the Right to Work in the UK.
Please ensure education and employment history are completed in full, gaps in employment must be accounted for under the section entitled “Periods when not working”. We would like to see your passion for the role and the College in your supporting statement, please use this opportunity to include personal skills, experience relevant to the post, and reasons why you feel you would be successful if this post.
Closing date: 9am, Monday 21 October 2024
Interviews: to be held on Thursday 24 October 2024
For further information, to have an initial discussion, or to return a completed Application Form, please contact: Kirsty Crook, Personnel Officer: recruitment@woking.ac.uk Tel: 01483 761036
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. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and successful applicants will be subject to Enhanced 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 2024 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 1700 students drawing students from more than 60 different schools. Our very successful focus will always be to create the very best environment for high quality of teaching and learning. We have a very broad range of enrichment activities, in order to greatly enhance the cultural capital and future prospects of our students. 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 and 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 believe that our physical environment should also inspire our staff and students. All have benefitted 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 Art building in 2015 and a modern and larger Science Building in 2016. A full size 3G pitch was completed in 2020. A £3m teaching block opened in early 2023, and a further £3m project working collaboratively with the adjacent community centre opened in September 2023 enhancing our Performing Arts facilities even further.
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, arguably 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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