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DT and Art Technician (Food, Art and Textiles)

Employer
Birmingham City Council
Location
Moseley School and Sixth Form College Road Springfield B13 9UU
Salary
£24,027 to £25,992 pro rata Subject to formal evaluation under the Pay Equity Review
Closing date
6 Feb 2025
Reference
JOB003034
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Job Details

Hours: 36.5 with flexibility to attend any other meetings/events outside normal working hours when required, term time only plus 5 days to be worked over the school holidays for the school Academic year

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.

Our ideal Candidate will have:

  • ideally worked in a school environment with previous experience of a Technician Role, this isn’t essential as training in the roe would be given
  • ability to plan and organise tasks effectively
  • ability to use IT
  • willing to undertake appropriate training to meet the needs of the job, including First Aid training

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
  • to undertake any other duties not detailed above commensurate with the level of the post

  This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016). Therefore the ability to speak fluent and spoken English is an essential requirement for this role.   Please visit our school website to apply 

We welcome visitors to the school. Please contact us if you would like to arrange a visit.

Please contact the Recruitment Team if you would like further information regarding this role or the school in general please email us on recruitment@moseley.bham.sch.uk

Please note this advert may close when sufficient applications are received. Interviews will take place on Tuesday 11th February 2025.

This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to necessary pre-employment checks, including: an enhanced DBS; Prohibition check (where applicable) Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work.  All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references. An online search will also be carried out on all shortlisted candidates. 

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. Which means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide. 

This post is not part of the City Council and the successful candidate will not hold a Birmingham City Council Contract of Employment.  

Company

Working for Birmingham City Council is more than just a job; it's about making life better for the 1 million plus people who live and work in the city.

We welcome people from diverse and underrepresented communities and encourage applications from, those with caring responsibilities, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, neurodivergent, disabled and LGBT+ people. As part of our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion, we are committed to promoting and supporting the physical and mental health of all our staff and removing barriers to improve inclusion.   We are making significant strides to understand and continuously improve our employees’ experience and we are committed to implementing progressive diversity talent management.

Information for applicants with a disability

We are a proud Disability Confident Employer.  We encourage applicants to disclose disabilities, so we can support them fully during our recruitment process and make any necessary reasonable adjustments. Please contact: 0121 675 7070 option 3 (lines open between 8.45am to 5.15pm Monday to Friday).

If you require an application in an alternative format, such as Braille or you are unable to complete an application form via WMJOBS, please contact bccHR@birmingham.gov.uk. When you have completed your application form this can be returned to bccHR@birmingham.gov.uk or for Braille applications these can be posted to, Recruitment Team, 2nd Floor, 10 Woodcock Street, B7 4BG.

The Council is a fantastic place to work. You will find an organisation that is both challenging and supportive; with a leadership impatiently adventurous in its pursuit of excellence. 

There is a clear vision which is ensuring that the Council is working for communities today and building for tomorrow, we focus our resources on five key priorities:

  • A Prosperous Birmingham: through a focus on inclusive economic growth, tackling unemployment, attracting inward investment, and maximising the benefits of the Commonwealth Games.
  • An Inclusive Birmingham: through a focus on tackling poverty and inequality, empowering citizens, promoting diversity and civic pride, and supporting and enabling all children and young people to thrive.
  • A Safe Birmingham: through a focus on making the city safer, safeguarding vulnerable citizens, increasing affordable housing, and tackling homelessness.
  • A Healthy Birmingham: through a focus on tackling health inequalities, encouraging physical activity and healthy living, supporting mental health, and improving outcomes for adults with disabilities and older people.
  • A Green Birmingham: through a focus on street cleanliness, improving air quality, continuing the route to net zero, and becoming a city of nature.

We see the Council’s role as providing strategic leadership – that’s being able to visualise a new future for the city and equipping others to share our vision. We want to ensure the provision of services for all, so we can support those least able to support themselves by working with partners and putting citizens and neighbourhoods at the heart of our decision-making.

We are always looking for people who put the customer at the centre of their approach, with a commitment to excellence to help us achieve our vision.  We will support you to develop and thrive in your role, building a pathway for long-term success, with lots of development opportunities, such as apprenticeships.

In return, we offer you excellent terms and conditions, generous annual leave, a great pension scheme, well-being support, annual travel passes and discounts at a number of city centre establishments.

Birmingham City Council is a Foundation Living wage employer - known as the Birmingham Living Wage. The Birmingham Living Wage, is determined by the Living Wage Foundation on an annual basis by the Centre of Research in Society Polity at Loughborough University. The current rate can be found at: www.livingwage.org.uk.   

For the awards and support for our employees, please follow https://www.birmingham.gov.uk/homepage/169/job_vacancies  

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Telephone
0121 675 7070
Location
Birmingham City Council
Birmingham
West Midlands
B2 2XU
United Kingdom

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