Role Description

St Peter’s School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment by always complying with the school’s Child Protection and Safeguarding Policy and Procedures. The successful applicant will be required to undergo statutory pre-employment checks, including a Disclosure and Barring Service check.

Key Responsibilities

Responsible to: Head of Design Technology

Salary: Point 5 on St Peter’s Support Staff Salary Scale - £26,285

Hours of work: Term Time hours: Monday–Friday, 8.00am–4.30pm (37.5 hours per week)

Holiday hours: Monday–Friday, 9.00am–4.00pm (30 hours per week)

This is a term time role only plus five weeks during the holidays (to include the week immediately before the start of the Christmas Term). The other additional weeks outside of term time will be worked as required by the School.

Overall Purpose of the Post:

To support the work of the DT department in the supervising of workshop tasks being carried out by pupils which involve tools and machines primarily, as per our safe schemes of work. To provide help in the setting up of the classroom/workshop for activities and material requests/processing orders.

Key Roles

Liaise with the IT department to ensure that IT issues are resolved promptly.

Liaise with Estates regarding the maintenance of the workshop, which includes electrical repairs, plumbing, and machinery check-ups, among other matters.

Liaise with Housekeeping for the supply of domestic consumables and the emptying of bins.

Daily

General tidying around machines to ensure all in good order for the following day. Help with setting up and tidying the classroom and workshop before and after lessons.

General tidying around machines, workbenches, and classrooms to ensure they are left in good order for the following day.

Ensure the classroom is set up for teaching on Saturdays.

Weekly

1. Assist the DT teaching staff with safety checks as per our maintenance programme (CLEAPSS G254) – on workshop machines, including for eg. the emptying of sanding machine trays and cleaning of band-saw dust etc, as required. Ensure repairs are carried out/organised/or machines taken out of use promptly.

Monthly/mid term

Assist with the top up of project materials as required.

Assistance in display of pupils’ work (including photo displays).

Termly

Ensure that repairs and servicing of machinery and equipment are carried out, organised, or that machines are taken out of use promptly.

Annually

Assist with stock take in preparation for summer orders – and subsequent unpacking, checking of deliveries.

Assist with thorough clear down ready for summer cleaning.

Assist Head of DT and teaching staff with preparation of materials for major projects.

Liaise with the Head of DT and DT teaching staff, regarding annual safety checking and servicing of machinery (currently under contract with Technology Supplies), and PAT testing, and ensuring recommendations have been carried out.

General

1. Health & Safety - You have a legal duty to take reasonable care of your own health and safety and that of others and you are expected to be familiar with, and adhere to, St Peter’s School’s Health and Safety policy.

2. School values – You have a duty to ensure your work, communication and approach conforms to the school’s core values and mission. You will need to be aware and comply with school rules, policies and procedures at all times including, but not limited to, those relating to safeguarding, conduct, equality and data protection.

St Peter's School strives to be diverse and inclusive. We encourage applications from people who identify as Black, Asian or from a Minority Ethnic background, who are underrepresented at the school. The school is committed to providing equal opportunity to all employees and pupils. This means that employees are treated fairly, irrespective of sexual orientation, ethnic origin, religion, disability, age, gender, marital status or other reason. The post holder is expected to always comply with the provisions set out in law and the St Peter's policies on equality and diversity. The school is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community – a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed on merit.

Note: This job description is not intended to be a comprehensive list of duties and responsibilities associated with the post. The post holder will be expected to comply with any reasonable request to undertake work of a similar level that is not specified in this job description. This job description may be amended at any time.