Creative Art and DT Technician

Creative Art and DT Technician

Permanent, Term Time, Full Time

Start Date: as soon as possible

Job ref: TECH 2025

Salary: Grade 3, Points 5-6 (Actual Salary £22,019)

FTE £25,783 - £26,193

37 hours per week, Term Time (38.6 weeks per year) plus 3 Professional Learning Days

Monday to Thursday 8:00am to 4:00pm

Friday 8:00am to 3:30pm with ½ hour unpaid lunch daily

We are looking to appoint an enthusiastic individual who is keen to help students achieve the very best by helping teachers with their practical Lessons. We would like to recruit someone to

who wants to work in a school which values all staff and their personal development.

Design & Technology:

• To maintain high standards of Health and Safety and to ensure that the department facility is adhering to the department policies and well as Health and Safety standards. If there are any concerns to ensure it is raised with the Curriculum Leader.

• To familiarise themselves with CLEAPSS/COSHH/British Health and Safety Standards so Health & Safety standards can be maintained at a high standard within the department.

• To ensure all areas of preparation and storage are always kept clean; and all equipment retrieved and cleared away after lessons.

• To ensure stock levels are maintained and checked on a regular basis, keeping within budget and health and safety standards.

• To ensure computer data (orders, service, inventories, and machinery information) is kept up to date and to assist Curriculum Leader with the annual budget process.

• To ensure new and replacement materials, equipment and machinery are ordered as appropriate and on a timely fashion.

• To have good confidence and competence in ICT and where required to support with installation of hardware and software.

Creative Arts:

• To provide technical support for concerts, showcases, drama productions, including sound, lighting, and projection setup.

• To work with students to provide technical support for GCSE/BTEC drama, dance and music assessments

• To record, edit, and submit student performances for assessments and examination boards.

• To oversee timetables for peripatetic music lessons and coordinate communication between teachers, students, and parents.

• To assist with the organisation of graded exams and preparing materials for music events.

• To manage and maintain musical and recording equipment, including software and hardware installation.

We would like to appoint a positive and enthusiastic person to join our highly supportive and growing team, who wants to work in a school where:

• strong, positive relationships are a strength

• students are taught in mainstream lessons which allows them to thrive in a positive and productive learning environment;

• students of all ages and abilities readily demonstrate an eagerness to learn and make progress across the curriculum;

• outstanding behaviour is apparent throughout the school; students are polite, open and articulate, making it a pleasure to engage with them in lessons;

• the school’s Progress 8 score is significantly above average at +1.0 for two consecutive years and ranked in the top 5% nationally;

• Professional Learning is a priority and time for this is integrated into the school day;

• all students, teachers and parents share a common vision to "make a positive difference".

Successful applicants are subject to an enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service check and satisfactory employment references.

‘This post will involve contact with vulnerable groups (children, young people and/or adults) and is therefore, exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and subject to an Enhanced Criminal Records Bureau (DBS) Disclosure check. This exemption means that shortlisted applicants for this post will be required to declare all criminal convictions, cautions, reprimands, and bind- overs both spent and unspent in their application, before interview and regardless of the passage of time.

How to apply:

If you are interested in this post, please read the Applicant pack for instructions on how to apply.

Please see the documents listed below, which may assist you in making your application:

• Job Description

• Applicant Pack

• Application and Recruitment Process document

NO AGENCIES OR CV’s PLEASE

Closing date: Wednesday 5th November 2025 Midday

Interview date: Week beginning Monday 10th November 2025

Rushey Mead Academy is committed to:

• safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment

• equal opportunities and equal value for staff and students, prevention of discrimination in its many forms

If we have not contacted you within 4 weeks of the closing date, you may assume that your application has been unsuccessful