Science Technician

Job title: School Science Technician

Location: Redbridge, Essex

Pay rate: £90.00 - £100.00 per day depending on experience

Setting: Mainstream Secondary School

Start date: ASAP

Duration: Long term with view to go permanent

Active Recruitment are working with an Outstanding mainstream Secondary school in Redbridge who are seeking a Science Technician to join them as soon as possible on a temp to perm basis. This is a highly reputable school with state of the art facilities and excellent teaching spaces. This is a fantastic opportunity for an experience Technician as well as a graduate of Science looking for a new exciting role in a lab environment.

As a Science Technician your duties will be:

• Assisting and advising teaching staff on the preparation and layout in classrooms for practical exercises, running trials of experiments, demonstrations and helping students with learning activities
• Ensuring the welfare and care of any plants and animals in the science area and the security of the equipment
• Ensuring understanding of science syllabus and schemes of work to prepare for practical lessons adequately
• Assisting with stock keeping
• Ensuring equipment and materials are prepared to the teacher's specifications, including making up special equipment or modifying from existing equipment
• Advising students and staff on the safe and proper use of tools and equipment and on the correct and safe way to carry out learning activities
• Assisting in the safety, repair and general maintenance of all resources, equipment and tools, and advising where any maintenance or inspection is beyond your competence

Benefits of working with Active Recruitment:

• Health & Wellbeing support, discounts on travel and retail outlets from our partners
• A dedicated consultant on hand for support
• All of our staff are paid in line with the Agency Worker Regulations, meaning your pay will be equal to that of a permanent employee
• We offer online training for all of our staff including First Aid, Special needs qualifications, Child safeguarding and more!

If you are a Science Technician, available and interested in this position, please avoid any delay in applying!