DT & Art Technician (Food, Art & Textiles)

at  Moseley School and Sixth FormBirmingham

SALARY:

Grade 2 Spine Point 3 £21,630 pro rata Actual Annual Salary before any deductions Grade 2 Spine Point 8 £23,398 pro rata Actual Annual Salary before any deductions

JOB OVERVIEW

Contract Hours: Full time, Term Time only (plus 5 days to be worked over the school holidays for the school Academic year). Normal working hours are36.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday. Flexibility to attend any other meetings/events outside normal working hours when required.
Start Date: ASAP
We are looking for an enthusiastic individual who is interested in Food and Art to join the school. This post is a vital role in the school and allows our students to explore learning via practical work and using excellently prepared resources.
The successful applicant will join our Technology and the Arts Faculty and help to deliver the practical equipment and resources to students ranging from Year 7 to A-level. Through prepared demonstrations and equipped class practical’s, the students are enthused about the world of Food, Textiles and Art.
Do you have a real passion for helping children succeed in creative subjects? Then this is the role for you.

CORE PURPOSE:

To provide support for teaching staff within the Technology and Arts Faculty, by providing resources and materials to ensure students receive creative and effective practical sessions allowing them to achieve or surpass their expected levels of progress.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• To support teachers and students in practical lessons and where authorised to do so by a member of teaching staff, to demonstrate the safe and effective use of equipment and activities to students.
• Promoting healthy eating
• To prepare materials, resources and setting up equipment for use in lessons. This may include: preparing ingredients for food lessons, putting out cooking equipment, cutting slabs of clay, cutting lino, cutting fabric, setting up sewing machines and setting up printing equipment.
• Monitoring of equipment with specific health and safety requirements (Lino tools, craft knives, sewing machines)
• To carry out a weekly Health and Safety checks and audit of renewable and non-renewable equipment, materials and resources
• To support with ordering materials, stocktaking and checking all deliveries of resources
• To keep tools and equipment in good working order
• To carry out routine maintenance of classrooms, equipment and additional rooms, including the safe disposal of waste materials
• To take responsibility for management of Health & Safety checks to all machines and classroom environments, including updating subject specific risk assessments
• To organise and store materials, resources and equipment in stock cupboards
• To retrieve and clear away materials and equipment to support the smooth running of lessons
• To put up faculty displays under guidance from staff
• Exam preparation - supporting staff and students with technical requirements and supervision of machinery/tools as required for their individual projects

OTHER RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Assist with on call duties as appropriate
• Responsible for student behaviour and welfare in public places during break, lunch, change of lesson, beginning and end of school day as directed
• Attend meetings as required
• Participate in professional development opportunities, willingness to develop additional skills and expertise
• Keep up to date with current educational developments and legislation affecting your area of responsibility
• Contribute to school development through identified communication and consultation channels
• Treat students, parents and colleagues fairly, equitably and with dignity and respect
• To respect the confidential nature of information relating to the school, students and customers
• Be aware of and support difference and ensure equal opportunities for all
• Contribute to the overall ethos/work/aims of the school
• Develop constructive relationships and communicate with other agencies/professionals
• Be aware of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and to report any concerns in accordance with the school’s safeguarding policy
• To comply with the school’s Health and Safety policy and statutory requirements
• To undertake any other duties not detailed above commensurate with the level of the post.