Science Technician
| Posting date: | 30 September 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Grade 3, Points 5-6 (Actual Salary £22,019) |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 13 October 2025 |
| Location: | Leicester, Leicestershire, LE4 7AN |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | eTeach UK Limited |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 1511390 |
Summary
Science Technician
Permanent, Term Time, Full Time
Start Date: as soon as possible
Job ref: ST2025
Salary: Grade 3, Points 5-6 (Actual Salary £22,019)
FTE £25,783 - £26,193
37 hours per week, Term Time (38.6 weeks per year) plus 3 Professional Learning Days
Monday to Thursday 8:00am to 4:00pm
Friday 8:00am to 3:30pm with ½ hour unpaid lunch daily
We are looking to appoint an enthusiastic individual who is keen to help students achieve the very best by helping teachers with their teaching of practical science. Please read the job description for a full idea of what the job will entail. We would like to recruit someone to who wants to work in a school which values all staff and their personal development.
We are a school where:
• science is valued by students and families;
• staff are supported to develop
• where results in science have been significantly above national averages for many years and are in the top 10% nationally;
• the school’s progress 8 score is significantly above average at +1.0 for two consecutive years and ranked in the top 5% nationally;
• where there is a strong academic ethos and high expectations of students;
• where behaviour management is centralised and staff are enabled to flourish.
• we have a large, diverse, thriving science department which is supported by 4 technicians, and practical work is central to our practice.
• students, parents and all staff share a common vision to "make a positive difference".
• students of all ages and abilities readily demonstrate an eagerness to learn and make progress across the curriculum;
Successful applicants are subject to an enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service check and satisfactory employment references.
‘This post will involve contact with vulnerable groups (children, young people and/or adults) and is therefore, exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and subject to an Enhanced Criminal Records Bureau (DBS) Disclosure check. This exemption means that shortlisted applicants for this post will be required to declare all criminal convictions, cautions, reprimands, and bind- overs both spent and unspent in their application, before interview and regardless of the passage of time.
How to apply:
If you are interested in this post, please read the Applicant pack for instructions on how to apply.
Please see the documents listed below, which may assist you in making your application:
• Job Description
• Applicant Pack
• Application and Recruitment Process document
NO AGENCIES OR CV’s PLEASE
Closing date: Sunday 12th October 2025
Interview date: Week beginning Monday 27th October 2025
Rushey Mead Academy is committed to:
• safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment
• equal opportunities and equal value for staff and students, prevention of discrimination in its many forms
If we have not contacted you within 4 weeks of the closing date, you may assume that your application has been unsuccessful.
Permanent, Term Time, Full Time
Start Date: as soon as possible
Job ref: ST2025
Salary: Grade 3, Points 5-6 (Actual Salary £22,019)
FTE £25,783 - £26,193
37 hours per week, Term Time (38.6 weeks per year) plus 3 Professional Learning Days
Monday to Thursday 8:00am to 4:00pm
Friday 8:00am to 3:30pm with ½ hour unpaid lunch daily
We are looking to appoint an enthusiastic individual who is keen to help students achieve the very best by helping teachers with their teaching of practical science. Please read the job description for a full idea of what the job will entail. We would like to recruit someone to who wants to work in a school which values all staff and their personal development.
We are a school where:
• science is valued by students and families;
• staff are supported to develop
• where results in science have been significantly above national averages for many years and are in the top 10% nationally;
• the school’s progress 8 score is significantly above average at +1.0 for two consecutive years and ranked in the top 5% nationally;
• where there is a strong academic ethos and high expectations of students;
• where behaviour management is centralised and staff are enabled to flourish.
• we have a large, diverse, thriving science department which is supported by 4 technicians, and practical work is central to our practice.
• students, parents and all staff share a common vision to "make a positive difference".
• students of all ages and abilities readily demonstrate an eagerness to learn and make progress across the curriculum;
Successful applicants are subject to an enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service check and satisfactory employment references.
‘This post will involve contact with vulnerable groups (children, young people and/or adults) and is therefore, exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and subject to an Enhanced Criminal Records Bureau (DBS) Disclosure check. This exemption means that shortlisted applicants for this post will be required to declare all criminal convictions, cautions, reprimands, and bind- overs both spent and unspent in their application, before interview and regardless of the passage of time.
How to apply:
If you are interested in this post, please read the Applicant pack for instructions on how to apply.
Please see the documents listed below, which may assist you in making your application:
• Job Description
• Applicant Pack
• Application and Recruitment Process document
NO AGENCIES OR CV’s PLEASE
Closing date: Sunday 12th October 2025
Interview date: Week beginning Monday 27th October 2025
Rushey Mead Academy is committed to:
• safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment
• equal opportunities and equal value for staff and students, prevention of discrimination in its many forms
If we have not contacted you within 4 weeks of the closing date, you may assume that your application has been unsuccessful.