Art Technician
Location: Leicester, city centre.
Closing Date: 19th May 2025, 9.00am
Interviews: May/June 2025
Position Start Date: 26th August 2025
Salary: LG Band 3, Point 5 - 6 (£21,336 - £21,675 pro rata) (£24,983 - £25,380 FTE)
Opportunity for dedicated and enthusiastic Art Technician to join the team at Castle Mead Academy, as part of The Mead Educational Trust.
In August 2019, Castle Mead Academy, a non-selective secondary school, opened its doors and welcomed our first year 7 cohort. Since then, we have never looked back! We are now fully-grown, with over 1200 scholars as part of our school, going about their learning each and every day. Building on the success of Rushey Mead Academy, Castle Mead is making available in the heart of Leicester a standard of education matching the very best schools in the country so that every scholar leaves us with high value academic qualifications and wider positive dispositions to en-able them to lead fulfilling lives.
Castle Mead is an Outstanding school, and we seek a colleague with high potential to join our team.
The opportunity to work in a growing school, is like no other. When you start a school from scratch like we have, it is a golden opportunity to put in place all of the amazing things you have heard and read about from the best schools in the land – but in one place, here in Leicester! Having moved into our new state-of-the-art school building, join us and help to build a genuine legacy of your own, alongside colleagues who are aligned in their values.
We are recruiting a team of like-minded experts to help realise our vision and “Grow a Community of Excellence.”
This is an exciting opportunity for a person who is:
• proactive, skilful and has a positive outlook;
• willing to learn and work as part of our team;
• going to contribute to the ethos our school in our new £37m building, on the picturesque riverside!
This is a unique opportunity to work in a school where:
• our scholars are courteous, well-mannered and charming;
• the staff team are relentless in their ambition on behalf of pupils and colleagues;
• there is a growing reputation of Castle Mead providing excellence in the heart of Leicester.
We know that carefully considering the way we do things and how this impacts on our school culture is of para-mount importance.
Please submit your application by Monday 19th May 2025. For further information, a confidential discussion, to book a visit to Castle Mead Academy or any technical queries please contact Kirsty Gunn, Office Manager, details can be found in candidate pack.
Castle Mead Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening, including checks with past employers and the Dis-closure and Barring Service.
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 Disclosure and Barring Service (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.