Technician for Creative Technology and Expressive Arts

Purpose

As a technician, you will commonly take responsibility for:

• preparing equipment and teaching areas for practical classes;
• maintaining equipment and teaching areas;
• ensuring a safe classroom environment;
• supporting teachers in practical classes;
• helping students to obtain the most out of their learning experiences;
• carrying out administrative and other tasks related to the smooth running of the department.
• using and maintaining a range of workshop tools, equipment and machinery
• risk assessments and COSHH
• preparation of materials and ingredients while also ensuring all are in date

Principal Accountabilities

Practical Tasks

• Prepare equipment for practical lessons, organise necessary practical equipment to ensure that the correct resources are available for lessons.
• To assist when required in practical lessons to support staff and children to help with maintaining health and safety
• Supporting individual children during a practical activity;
• Modifying apparatus and equipment for those children with physical disabilities.
• Set design

Administrative Tasks

• Order equipment to ensure that the resources are available for lessons to enable demonstrations and practical lessons to run smoothly
• Photocopying, printing and duplicating
• Reporting any equipment or other maintenance issues promptly to your line manager
• Health and Safety audits, checks, reporting, servicing, ordering, repairs

Scope for Impact

The post holder is responsible for all equipment and ingredients and needs to ensure they are in date, are used safely and are fit for use in the various lessons.

General responsibilities

• To become familiar with the school procedures and regulations as set out in the staff handbook and other documentation, as appropriate to the responsibilities and to follow these.
• To implement the school’s health & safety policy currently in force and assist with safeguarding the health and safety of children when they are on the school premises.
• To participate in arrangements for the appraisal of your performance.
• To carry out such other duties as the Head of Faculty or Headteacher may from time to time reasonably determine.

Line Manager Responsibilities

The line manager will give guidance on:

• Working with teaching staff;
• Confidentiality of some work within school (pupil circumstances and assessments);
• Supporting teaching and learning and helping children with their practical work;
• Maintaining safe working procedures and the approach to risk assessments;
• Setting up and maintaining displays

Whilst every effort has been made to explain the main duties and responsibilities of the post, each individual task may not be identified. The post holder will be expected to comply with all reasonable requests from the Headteacher to undertake work of a similar level that is not specified in their job description