Assistant Lab Technician (23-24)

Job Description

Are you an experienced, dynamic, collaborative team with a vision rooted in excellence, and a passion for creativity and a love of learning? Do you want to work with a multi-cultural and diverse team of talented teachers in a faith-based environment?  If you are, we would like to invite you to explore teaching and academic leadership opportunities in our schools.

Bukhatir Education Advancement & Management (Beam) is best known for its excellence in operating the US and UK Curriculum schools under the banner of the American School of Creative Science (ASCS) and International School of Creative Science (ISCS) in the UAE. Our campuses’ environment are carefully designed to promote traditional moral values and ethos in addition to building critical thinking skills and academic excellence amongst its pupils.

Our American curriculum school, American School of Creative Science (ASCS) is looking for creative, passionate and outstanding Assistant Lab Technician who value professional development opportunities and a good work-life balance. We expect our Team to deliver high quality performance while successfully nurturing and inspiring our students. As part of our energetic and welcoming team, you will enthuse and motivate students to strive for success while maintaining a healthy learning environment for all children within the school.

Key responsibilities

• Liaising with academic staff to discuss timetables, equipment requirements and work plans.
• Running trials of experiments prior to classes and then demonstrating techniques for experiments.
• Preparing equipment and chemicals before lessons – from test tubes to state-of-the-art microscopes.
• Maintaining and repairing equipment and laboratory apparatus.
• Record keeping, e.g. for students’ practical sessions, tracking methods, results, etc.;
• Ensuring that equipment is properly cleaned and that chemicals, drugs and other materials are appropriately stored.
• Supporting the work of teachers in classes and laboratory sessions and giving technical advice to staff and students;
• Working with individual students and supporting them on research projects.
• Managing the stock control of chemicals and equipment;
• Contributing to high-level research, if working at university level;
• Ensuring that all health and safety procedures are understood and followed correctly;
• Coordinating work in the laboratory to ensure efficient use is made of expensive pieces of equipment.
• Assisting with collection and cataloging of sundry worksheets, books, audio-visual aids and materials
• Maintaining laboratory clean and tidy in conjunction with the teacher in charge of the room;
• Carry out risk assessments for technical activities
• Disposing of waste materials

Safer Recruitment Statement

Policies for safer recruitment are aligned with the Department for Education’s “Keeping Children Safe in Education” recommendations. At the International School of Creative Science, we hold ourselves to a high standard of effective practices in relation to child protection and we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. We expect all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment. Successful applicants will be subject to various background checks including, receipt of satisfactory references, proof of relevant qualifications, identification and police checks, including overseas checks.

Skills

• Bachelor of Science
• Minimum 2 years of experience in a school laboratory environment.
• Preferably Bilingual (Arabic/English)

What we Offer:

• Private medical insurance
• Unique faith-based environment
• Multicultural workforce
• Learning and Development Opportunities
• State of the art school facilities
• Well-resourced school
• Tuition fee discount