Part Time, Fixed Term

November 2024

4 November 2024

Location: Croydon, Surrey
Required for: November 2024
Contract: Fixed Term until 18th July 2024 (term-time only including Staff Development Days)
Hours: Monday to Friday (20 hours per week)
(exact distribution of hours and day to be discussed and confirmed at interview)
Salary: Grade 3 Points 5 - 7 (£27,030.00 pro-rata)
Salary Scale: Points 5 - 7 (£27,030.00 - £27,855.00 pro-rata)
Closing Date: 4th November 2024.
Interview Date: tbc


We are looking for a hard-working, ambitious and energetic Science Technician to join our small but busy Science Department alongside the Senior Science Technician, Head of Department, teaching staff. You will assist the Senior Science Technician and teaching staff with the preparation of equipment for experiments and demonstrations and layouts of classrooms. Assisting pupils and students where appropriate, at both Key Stage 3, GCSE and A Level.


This position has become available due to increase in pupil numbers and therefore, an increase in requirement within the department.


The successful candidate must have:

• Science Technician experience
• knowledge of Health and Safety, COSHH and other relevant legislation
• experience completing risk assessments for practical and technical activities

We can offer you:

• a rewarding but challenging working environment
• an optimistic and motivating leadership team
• the opportunity to work closely with the Senior Science Technician and Head of Science and wider professional team
• be part of a school with strong traditions
• develop professionally and personally in a
• secure, but lively atmosphere
• contribute to our pastoral care and our Christian ethos

Archbishop Tenison’s is a 310 year old Church of England, mixed 11-18 comprehensive school with an excellent track record at both GCSE and A Level. Most importantly, it is a community where the people who work believe they can make a difference to the young people they teach. Our school motto is “Academic excellence for each person in a Christian community”.


The school is situated near East Croydon Station which has excellent fast rail links to London and the South Coast. There is some staff parking on the school site and parking bays in and around the local area (approx £12per day)


How to apply


If you would like to apply, please
submit your application and a covering letter to Mr Parrish, Headteacher detailing
your suitability for the role by Thursday, 31st October. Please visit the staff
recruitment page via the school website
Total number of pupils - 793 pupils (Sixth Form 76)


Archbishop Tenison's is an equal opportunities employer and committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. Successful candidates will be required to undertake an enhanced Disclosure check by the Criminal Records Bureau; online checks will be carried out.

The School
In 1714 the then Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Tenison, founded a school for some "ten poor boys and ten poor girls" on a site which has since become Croydon's popular Whitgift Shopping Centre. As we enter our 310th year, and three sites later, Archbishop Tenison's is now situated in the leafy Park Hill area of the town, a 5 minute bus ride or fifteen minutes’ walk from East Croydon Station.
Archbishop Tenison's is an 11-18 voluntary aided, mixed comprehensive school, part of the educational provision of the Anglican Diocese of Southwark and the London Borough of Croydon.
The school is well regarded locally for its high academic standards, an academic Sixth Form, the very high level of pastoral care provided for the pupils and its Christian ethos. Assemblies are an important part of school life; there is an annual Eucharist for each year group; all students take Religious Studies at GCSE, with a good number continuing to A Level.
The School caters for around 760 pupils, including the Sixth Form. The school is oversubscribed every year and as a result it is necessary for the Governors to rank applicants for the 150 places in Year 7 according to the schools admission criteria, with places allocated largely on the basis of church membership, with 20% of places allocated to feeder schools and 20% of places allocated to all. No entrance examination is set.
Many of our pupils stay on into the Sixth Form and students also join from other schools in the Borough and beyond. The Sixth Form offers a range of AS and A Level courses, together with some vocational courses. Most of the Year 13 proceed to Higher Education each year, gaining entry to top universities, including Oxford and Cambridge.
Archbishop Tenison’s aims to provide an education which is broad, balanced, relevant and accessible to the diverse and close-knit community it serves.
The school is well regarded in the area for its music, drama and sport. Students are active in debating and public speaking. We regularly achieve very impressive results in National Mathematical Challenges. There is a wide range of extra-curricular activities with around 40 different clubs and societies. Charity support also features strongly in the life of the Sixth Form and the school.
The rewarding aspect of working at Archbishop Tenison's is reflected by the way in which staff stay at the school and the high level of staff commitment to extra-curricular activities mentioned earlier. Moreover, each year there are educational journeys in the UK and abroad, residential field courses, Duke of Edinburgh and Christian
The school has featured in a number of guides to good state schools and was described as "Good" in our last OFSTED Report. The school has both a strong sense of traditional values and a readiness to embrace new ideas which are of real benefit to the pupils and students. We are looking for the person appointed to this post to be part of a school with both a distinguished history and a vision of Christian educational purpose.
Transportation
London Borough of Croydon, the largest London Borough, has good transport links, by train Central London only twenty minutes away, Gatwick 30 minutes and Brighton approximately forty minutes.
ECTs, CPD, ITTs and School Direct
At Archbishop Tenison’s we pride ourselves in our successful trainee teacher and ECT training programmes. We have a number of support staff that have taken up teacher training, becoming very successful subject teachers, heads of year and subject leaders. Every academic year we have numerous PGCE, School Direct and Work Experience students either training with us or using our School as one of their professional placements.
Southeast Learning Alliance (SELA) - An Initial Teacher Training Programme
At Archbishop Tenison’s we are in partnership with a number of schools in the local area to provide high quality, bespoke training opportunities for all our trainees. The Initial Teacher Training packages offered by SELA allow prospective teachers to train in a dynamic educational setting across fourteen highly different but successful schools in the Croydon and Crawley areas. The Alliance comprises seven comprehensive secondary schools and seven primary schools, all of whom are working in partnership to help produce high quality and well-trained teachers of the future. The in-school training students receive is complemented by the accredited provider, where the learning is subject specific and helps to fully prepare students for delivery of the National Curriculum. All of the training that students engage with is aligned with the Core Content Framework, ensuring a smooth transition into being an Early Careers Teacher following the Early Career Framework.