Are you a Science Technician, Technical Support Officer (TSO) in Science or similar and looking for your next opportunity to support the life chances of our learners? If so, we’d love to hear from you. We’re looking for Two Science TSO's. One part time 0.5 FTE position with a start date of 19th August 2024 and a full time position with an immediate start As a support colleague you’ll go into the Local Government Pensions scheme and enjoy some really great benefit’s as well, Various health & wellbeing benefits including, Free on site Gym at Beaufort Road, Beauty treatments and haircuts, Health care cash plan via Simply Health, saving clubs via Manchester Credit Union, Cycle to work. Other benefits include, 33 days’ holiday allowance, Costa Coffee on site, Onsite bakery products at Tameside One, The Restaurant at Tameside One, Retail discounts, Refectories on all sites. Here’s the standard bit: You will provide technical support whilst contributing to the classroom experience of our talented and enthusiastic learners, within a hardworking team with high standards. Being a highly engaged and motivated Technical Support Officer, you will have a genuine desire and passion to improve the life chances of our learners. Tameside College has an excellent reputation, and this is a real opportunity for you to make a difference in people’s lives. What you’ll need: Enthusiasm, resilience and motivation, with a relevant level 2 qualification or equivalent coupled with a knowledge of the curriculum area (Chemistry, Biology and Physics) and the ability to perform a technical support role to contribute to effective learning. You will provide physical, technical and administrative support and should be a strong team player with excellent communication skills. About us: Tameside College has an excellent reputation and this is a real opportunity for you to make a difference in people’s lives. We’re based in Ashton-Under-Lyne, Greater Manchester in a diverse and vibrant further education college that offers a wide range of course including A level and advanced level vocational study programmes, Apprenticeships and adult courses up to degree Level. We aim to give all our students an exceptional experience. We believe in excellence and we back that up with high expectations, a superb working environment (as part of the Vision Tameside £100 million accommodation strategy) and outstanding teaching. We also believe that attending college is about more than achieving a qualification, important though that is. This is why we aim to give learners every opportunity to develop their full potential in a supportive and friendly environment. Subject to volume of applications, we may decide to close the vacancy early. Come join us on our journey to outstanding Recruitment Agencies: We are not utilising the service of recruitment agencies for this vacancy and will accept direct applications only. Any CV’s forwarded for this vacancy will be treated as a gift and not subject to your terms and conditions.