Technician - Design and Technology

Shorefields; Bocking; Remote; GBP 27,000 - 29,000; Full time

Job summary

Tabor Academy is seeking an ambitious Design and Technology Technician to join a high-achieving Trust. The role offers term-time terms plus extra weeks, a 36-hour week, and a salary in SCP 6-11 (£26,847–£29,071 per annum, pro rata where applicable).

You will work within a vibrant ICT-rich environment, supporting a team of teachers and staff to ensure outstanding education for all students.

Qualifications

• Excellent practitioner with ability to enthuse and inspire.
• Passionate about raising aspirations and improving educational life chances.
• Proven track record of leading improvement in educational settings.
• A role model and champion of learning with high professional standards.
• Clear-thinking and outward-looking with strong interpersonal skills.

Responsibilities

• Join a skilled, creative and supportive team within a forward-thinking organisation.
• Gain exposure to a Training School status and contribute to school development.
• Shape the future of the area by delivering high-quality Design and Technology education.
• Work in a brand-new, well-resourced specialist learning environment.
• Develop personally and professionally while making a real difference to students.

Skills

Inspire and motivate

Aspiration raising

Improve outcomes

Role model of learning

Clear-thinking

Interpersonal skills

Dynamic and innovative

Job description

Job Ref No. ECC4470-295 Position Type: Technicians Pay Range: Grade 3 to the mid-point (SCP 6-11),

Position Start Date: Immediate Contract Type: Full-time/Part-time Contract Term: Permanent

Application Close: 20/11/2026 Midnight Date of Interviews: TBC

We are seeking to appoint ambitious, highly effective and experienced Design and Technology Technician to join our very successful, heavily over-subscribed Multi- Academy Trust with an outstanding ethos where staff are supported to become the best.

We are seeking to appoint at Tabor Academy, Panfield Lane, Braintree, Essex CM7 5XP.

At Loxford School Trust we believe our pioneering and rigorous learning environment, and commitment to innovation provides our students with the opportunity to realise their full potential. We innovate, we challenge and we ensure success.

Our ICT rich environment promotes learning both in the classroom and elsewhere. You will have the exciting opportunity to work alongside a highly motivated, supportive and well qualified team of teachers and support staff.

Like us, you will be dynamic, innovative and hardworking. You will also have exceptional knowledge on attendance legislation, a desire to positively impact upon students' learning and a firm commitment to high academic achievement. Above all you will be dedicated to giving all our students an outstanding education.

The successful candidate will be:

• An excellent practitioner who can enthuse and inspire.
• Passionate about raising aspirations and improving educational life chances.
• Able to demonstrate a proven track record of leading improvement.
• A role model and champion of learning.
• Clear-thinking and outward-looking.
• Dynamic, innovative and hardworking.
• A leader who is able to demonstrate high-level interpersonal skills.

You will:

• Join a skilled, creative, and supportive team.
• Be part of a forward thinking organisation with Training School status.
• Have a chance to shape the future of the area.
• Work within a brand new, well resourced specialist learning environment.
• Be given the opportunity to develop personally and professionally
• Make a real difference to the lives of young people.

Please feel free to visit our school website on www.taboracademy.co.uk or Loxford School website www.loxford.net

The post is Term Time Only plus 2 weeks- 42 working weeks and 47.87 contractual weeks - and 36 hours per week. Grade 3 to the mid-point (SCP 6-11) England & Wales, which equates to £26,847-£29,071 PA and £25,193 - £27,280 pro rata

The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. The successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced DBS record check.

We reserve the right to bring forward the closing date if we consider that we have received an appropriate number of suitable applications for the post.

All appointments are subject to safer recruitment requirements to ensure the safeguarding of children and young people. All positions will involve appropriate checks and clearances.

Sarah Bayly
Panfield Lane, Braintree
Essex, CM7 5XP Telephone: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]