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Academy: ​Darwen Aldridge Community Academy

Job​Title: IT Apprentice

Reporting to: IT Manager

Contract Basis: ​Fixed Term Contract 37 hours per week

Salary: National Apprenticeship Wage £5.28

​About the Role:We are looking to recruit an IT Technical Support Apprentice who is a hardworking, organised individual with flexibility and a willingness to learn. The IT Technical Support Apprentice will work closely with the IT Team to provide management of IT services and general IT support, to supply technical help to ensure smooth operations. Due to the nature of the role, there will be times you are asked to lone work. For this reason, we would welcome applications from candidates over 18 years old.

Please be advised this is an apprenticeship position and the hourly rate is £5.28 for the first 12 months regardless of age.

You will receive training to develop and demonstrate the Knowledge, Skills and Behaviour to achieve a Level 3 Diploma - Infrastructure Technician

Completing the application:Candidates will need to create an account and are asked to complete all the standard information required on the application form. Please also address the mission alignment and capacity to meet the requirements of the Essential and Desirable criteria of the Person Specification and Job Description. CVs are not accepted as part of the application process. We may interview candidates ahead of the closing date so early application is advised. The Academy reserves the right to interview and appoint prior to the advertised closing date. The advert may be closed at any time.

About Aldridge Education:The Aldridge Education family of schools in the North West includes Darwen Aldridge Community Academy, Darwen Vale High School, Darwen Aldridge Enterprise Studio, Sudell Primary School and UTC@MediaCityUK.

​Aldridge Education is a charitable Trust of entrepreneurial community schools and colleges that help young people to reach their potential. We support our schools’ Principals and teachers in rapidly improving the quality of education on offer at early years, primary, secondary and sixth-form levels in order to transform the life-chances of our students.

Operating Norms ​We believe that the way we operate at all times and with all partners is of paramount importance. ​Our agreed operating norms are as follows:

• We are Aldridge Education


• The standard is excellence


• We champion equality


• We’re in the work together


• We behave with integrity


• We lead by example


• We use time well

References Candidates are advised that references will be taken up immediately after shortlisting. Candidates are asked to ensure that their referees are aware of the need to respond within the timescale set. In all cases two professional references are required.

Safeguarding Statement: ​Aldridge Education is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of its students and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment.

A copy of Aldridge Education’s Child Protection policy is available on our website at www.aldridgeeducation.org

Following successful application, Aldridge Education will carry out the necessary prohibition checks for all teaching staff, as well as for all candidates undertaking regulated activity. If you are shortlisted for the position you are applying for, you will be required to complete a Declaration giving details of any relevant criminal offences and other relevant information relating to our safeguarding duty. Further information will be provided on that form.

Any offer of employment will be made conditional upon a satisfactory enhanced DBS check and barred list check (where applicable to the role in question). If you are shortlisted for the position you are applying for, Aldridge Education will undertake online searches (including social media) in accordance with KCSIE 2023.

This role is considered exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. Which means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide. It is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.

Other information:Those candidates who meet all the requirements for the post will be short listed and details of the interview programme will be confirmed after the closing date.

If you have not been contacted within two weeks of the closing date, please assume you have not been shortlisted. In this case, may we thank you in advance of your interest in this post and Aldridge Education and wish you the very best for the future. Due to the volume of applicants, we are unable to give feedback to non-shortlisted candidates.

Job Types: Full-time, Fixed term contract

Benefits:

• Company pension


• Health & wellbeing programme


• On-site parking


• Sick pay

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift


• Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person