Science Technician - Currie Community High School

City of Edinburgh Council; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 33,000; Part time

Job summary

Currie Community High School, a vibrant educational institution in Edinburgh, is seeking a part-time Science Technician. The role involves supporting a dynamic science department and contributing to an enriching learning environment. Candidates should exhibit positivity, initiative, and flexibility, and be committed to enhancing student experiences in science education.

Qualifications

• Demonstrate positivity, initiative, and flexibility.
• Enjoy working proactively with colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Support the busy science department alongside the full-time Science Technician.
• Provide the best possible learning experience for students.

Skills

Positivity

Initiative

Flexibility

Job description

Location: Currie Community High School 31 Dolphin Avenue Edinburgh, EH14 5RD

Science Technician
Currie Community High School

Salary: £28,046 - £32,010 (pro-rata for part-time and sessional)
Hours: 14 per week, 39 weeks sessional

Flexibility: the set working pattern for this post will be agreed between the successful candidate and the school. Any proposal of working hours will be considered, provided they are during (or have overlap with) the school hours of 8:30-15:30 (12:15 on Fridays).

Currie Community High School is situated to the south west of the City of Edinburgh and serves the communities of Currie, Riccarton, Juniper Green and Baberton Mains. The school has served the local community for some 350 years. The school enjoys excellent links with the local community and as a designated community high school, a quality community programme is offered. The school’s SQA results are above both local and national averages and an extensive range of wider achievement opportunities are offered. The school is firmly committed to raising attainment and promoting positive achievement, leading to a high level of positive and sustained destinations of which Currie High has an outstanding record.

Our school values of Ambition, Respect, Equality underpin our positive culture and ethos; where celebrating success of our wonderful young people is at the heart of what we do. We also recognise the importance of our school as a community and we have been recently awarded the Gold LGBT Charter Mark which we are very proud of. We are a proactively anti racist school and are passionate about celebrating diversity, similarity and difference in our school. With over 49 languages spoken, we take the opportunity to embrace the rich cultural experiences of everyone in our school community. We are also working towards Rights Respecting School status, we hold a Silver Food For Life Catering award and have maintained Green Eco Schools status for 10 years. We were also awarded Scotland’s Most Enterprising School in 2021 and in August 2024 were awarded SCQF (Scottish Credit Qualifications Framework) Silver status as a result of sector leading work in promoting curriculum pathways with purpose. Within our inclusion provision, we have an Enhanced Support Base where we support young people with severe and complex needs. This is a fantastic resource within our school where young people are not only thriving with the support they receive but also in mainstream classrooms. This is just a flavour of the innovative approaches which make Currie Community High School a unique, desirable and welcoming place to work.

We are very excited to be moving to a new school build during 2025 which will be the first Passivhaus Secondary school in Scotland. Our vision for the new school encompasses innovative and cutting edge pedagogy with the development of 21st Century ready skills at the core of all we do. The school will benefit from inspirational learning spaces and technology including high quality outdoor spaces to enable young people to continue to become leaders of their own learning and to experience a broad, varied and bespoke curriculum.

We are seeking a part time Science Technician to join our staff team, working alongside our full time Science Technician in a busy and thriving science department. The successful candidate will demonstrate positivity, initiative and flexibility, and will enjoy working proactively with colleagues to help provide the best possible learning experience for our young people.

This post is regulated work with children and/or protected adults under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007. The preferred candidate will be required to join the PVG Scheme or undergo a PVG Scheme update check. Where an individual has spent a continuous period of 3 months or more out with the UK in the last 5 years, an Overseas Criminal Record Check will be required. You will be required to provide this check. Anunconditional offer of employment and commencement in the post will be subject to the outcome of both these pre-employment checks being deemed satisfactory.

We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.

As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure that we’re bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work.

To help achieve this, we’re changing the way we interview and assess candidates by moving from a competency-based interview approach to a behavioural and technical (skills for the job) based approach. This new way of interviewing will allow us to assess how you think and how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working.

Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.

Happy to talk flexible working.

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