Design & Technology Technician at Washwood Heath Academy

Washwood Heath Academy; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 24,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Structured CPD

Career Pathways

Life Leave Policy

Wellbeing support

Employee Assistance Programme

LGPS pension

Long Service Awards

Cycle to Work

Eye-sight tests

Onsite parking

Job summary

Washwood Heath Academy is seeking a Design and Technology Technician to support the Design and Technology department, assisting teaching staff, preparing teaching aids, and managing stock and resources. The role includes helping with open evenings, exhibitions and events, and performing light repairs on equipment.

The successful candidate will join a vibrant team, commit to safeguarding and providing reliable technical support to ensure smooth delivery of lessons and activities across the

Responsibilities

• Provide technical and administrative support for teaching and learning within Design and Technology.
• Support teachers in lessons and prepare teaching aids and resources.
• Organise and monitor stock, order supplies, and assist with events/performances.
• Maintain and perform simple repairs of equipment.

Job description

About this Role

If you have a passion for Design and Technology then your career starts here, Washwood Heath Academy has a fantastic opportunity for a talented individual to join an All-Through Academy Arts Faculty. As part of our commitment to help our students to achieve the best possible results, we are looking for a committed, hard-working, and enthusiastic individual to work as a technician within our vibrant Technology Department.

We are looking for a Design and Technology Technician to ensure an efficient and effective service is delivered. This role will involve providing technical and administrative support for teaching and learning within the Design and Technology subject areas. You will also be responsible for supporting teachers in lessons, preparing teaching aids and resources, organising and monitoring stock, ordering, supporting open evenings, whole school exhibitions and events/ performances, maintaining and simple repair of equipment.

Our school is in a central location, with wonderful and enthusiastic students, amazing staff who always go the extra mile for their classes. Our friendly, family feel is part of the reason that parents choose Washwood Heath Academy for their children and a significant number of staff are long term employees. We are part of the Washwood Heath Multi Academy Trust which is a family of local schools located within 15 minutes of one another: 4 Primary schools, 2 Secondary schools and 1 All-through school. This will give you the opportunity to grow and develop professionally with a fantastic Academy Trust that is very supportive and collaborative with a strong sense of community.

We can offer you:

• A collaborative and inclusive culture, where team members will upskill you and give you regular opportunities to learn from each other in a safe and collaborative environment.
• An opportunity to undertake structured CPD via access to the National College online CPD platform and/or apprenticeships such as [the CIPD or Coaching via our Apprenticeship Levy-amend examples based on roles].
• Access to Career Pathways and Pledge to help you plan for and make your goals a reality via our Professional Growth and Performance process.
• A wellbeing culture, with paid and unpaid time off to support life events via our Life Leave Policy, access to a Wellbeing Champion and the opportunity to participate in our annual staff wellbeing survey with Edurio, so we know and can respond to views.
• Access to 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), which includes confidential counselling, access to wellbeing advice and a lifestyle app called "My Possible Self".
• Access to a suite of supportive policies, such as Life Leave, Wellbeing, Career Break and Family Friendly.
• Access to a generous pension scheme known as the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).
• Access to a comprehensive employee rewards package including Long Service Awards, Employee Referral Scheme, Cycle to Work Scheme and contribution to glasses and eye-sight tests for eligible display screen users.
• Opportunity to be part of key Trust-wide collaborative groups such as the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI working group) and Wellbeing working groups, including menopause support and neurodiversity support.
• Generous annual leave entitlement based on length of service, starting at 30 days pro-rata, rising to 33 at 5 years' plus service and 35 following 10 years' plus service. This excludes an additional 2-week paid compulsory closure at Christmas, for which additional days' leave are gained.
• Onsite parking at all schools.

Closing date for applications: Thursday 24th September 2026 9:00am

• ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible
• communicating and promoting vacancies
• offering an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job
• anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required
• supporting any existing employee who acquires a disability or long term health condition, enabling them to stay in work

As partof our recruitment process, we carry out rigorous online searches in linewith Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE)

We valueour people and are dedicated to making sure that everybody feels empowered tobring their authentic self to work. We have an outstanding opportunity to workat WashwoodHeath Multi Academy Trust.

Wepromise to treat all candidates fairly, consistently and with respectthroughout the application, assessment, and selection process.

We arealso "happy to talk flexible working" subject to the operational requirementsof the role.

This post is exempt from theRehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order1975, 2013 and 2020. Which means that when applying for certain jobs andactivities certain spent convictions and cautions are 'protected', so they donot need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employerscannot take them into account. Further information about filtering offences canbe found in the DBS filtering guide.

This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act(2016) and therefore the ability to speak fluent spoken English is an essentialrequirement for this role.

Washwood Heath Multi Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children andyoung people and expects all staff to share this commitment. An enhancedDBS check is required for all successful applicants.