Higham Lane North Academy

School Technician (Science and Design Technology)

31.25 hours per week, Term-time plus weeks (39 weeks)

£18,505 to £19,217 (dependent on service and experience)

September / October 2026

Higham Lane North Academy is delighted to welcome applications for the post of School Technician (Science and Design Technology) for a September / October 2026 start.

Applicants are invited from enthusiastic individuals to provide technical and practical support to the Science and Technology departments, ensuring that equipment, materials, laboratories, workshops, and learning spaces are prepared and maintained. They will ensure that classrooms are operated safely and efficiently to support high-quality teaching and learning. They may also be asked to support students in lessons across the school.

What we offer

At Higham Lane North Academy, our staff are our most precious resource. We are committed to offering you:

• A supportive, collaborative working environment that places staff workload and wellbeing at the heart of all working practices.
• A clear behaviour and praise policy that enables all teachers to teach, and all pupils to learn effectively with a highly visible and supportive senior leadership team. This includes a centralized detention system, ensuring that you are fully supported with your practice.
• A commitment to an ambitious, broad and balanced knowledge curriculum that is highly considerate of teacher workload and wellbeing, particularly around planning, assessment and feedback.
• Research-based teaching and learning practice and strategies developed with workload and wellbeing in mind. Alongside this you will work within an environment that has a genuine passion and enthusiasm for teaching and learning that will enable you to thrive and flourish within the classroom.
• Weekly CPD opportunities with a careful balance between whole-school, subject and personal priorities to be even more effective.
• Opportunities to obtain professional qualifications and develop your career over the coming years in a growing school. We will provide bespoke career stage training such as NPQH and ELP.
• The opportunity to work with a highly experienced, effective, forward-thinking and ambitious senior leadership and Trust team.
• A supportive senior leadership and trust team that will regularly seek your feedback to hear your views on what is going well, and how we can be even more effective, giving you control over your work practice and contributions.
• The opportunity to work collaboratively with other schools within our trust, particularly with Higham Lane School and Oak Wood Primary and Oak Wood Secondary Schools.