Job at my work has come up

Not far from me fella! (moving to a gaff near warwick parkway station)

Shame that no only is it poorly paid, it's also in a rather affluent area of Birmingham/ West Mids so house prices are rather expensive!

(not that you could buy a house on that wage, but the rent prices will reflect it.)

Edit: has this also got the council thing that you're stuck at the bottom of each band and don't allow you to progress :o
 
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I'd have thought you'd get more applicants from school leavers looking to get a foot in the door, but maybe expectations are too high these days. You forever hear about people saying they can't get a job so why aren't people applying for it? Poor advertising? Reading the person specification for the Technician role they will basically consider any physical able person with an interest in computers for the job.

Perhaps the way the package is presented could be a bit better i.e. telling people how many weeks they have to work so the headline salary doesn't put them off so much. They'll likely be competing with genuine pro-rata jobs that quote a higher salary but aren't actually paying a higher daily rate.

I'd have loved an opportunity like that for my first job.
 
ICT technicians in schools are always paid a pittance - it's a general symptom of IT under funding in the state education sector.
 
Shocking salary that, and it includes PAT testing!!! (or stricktly speaking, PA Testing for the anally retentive amonst us :p ).

I am a senior IT tech in FE, so from basic queries up to AD admin, creating OS images, proxy management etc, but not so much infrastructure or GPO etc.
I get paid ~£23 and the normal IT techs get ~£18.
And thats fairly low imo.
 
Diagro said:
Its a job in a school who's HR is Warwickshire County Council.
Its lower paid because of that, also its TERM time only.. So in fact the Senior role is a 24k job but prorata.

Its the Education sector. Pay is pretty poor.
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I can't but help feel that educating isn't the most appropriate thing for you to be doing...
 
37 hours a week, 13k. rofl.

For someone looking to move back into civilian life and a relatively stress free job its a joke. Glad I signed on for 22 years now.

Think I'll deal with the stress and keep the extra 22k a bit longer...
 
That salary is not even legal for someone over the age of 25.

37h/w * 52 weeks = 1924 hours per year

1924 * £7.20 = £13,852.80.

Job being advertised for £12,992 - £13,805.

Heck i even earned closer to the senior position when i was just doing an internship.

As poster number 3 says, pay peanuts get monkeys.


Also i do have to laugh at the "benefit" of "free-parking". That's not a benefit, that's just being a reasonable employer.


Frankly it's no wonder this school can't employ anyone for these positions.
 
Semple said:
That salary is not even legal for someone over the age of 25.

37h/w * 52 weeks = 1924 hours per year

1924 * £7.20 = £13,852.80.

Job being advertised for £12,992 - £13,805.

Heck i even earned closer to the senior position when i was just doing an internship.

As poster number 3 says, pay peanuts get monkeys.


Also i do have to laugh at the "benefit" of "free-parking". That's not a benefit, that's just being a reasonable employer.


Frankly it's no wonder this school can't employ anyone for these positions.
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While I agree the salary is a bit on the low side, your maths doesn't work because they aren't working (and thus not getting paid) for 13 weeks of the year. The pay is pro-rated accordingly.

FWIW this same method is used for all non-teaching staff in schools - so LSAs etc are all paid like this. Really awful IMO.
 
DRZ said:
While I agree the salary is a bit on the low side, your maths doesn't work because they aren't working (and thus not getting paid) for 13 weeks of the year. The pay is pro-rated accordingly.

FWIW this same method is used for all non-teaching staff in schools - so LSAs etc are all paid like this. Really awful IMO.
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Wow if that's true, i'm amazed they can rope anyone into working these roles. How do people afford to live for 13 weeks of the year that they're not getting paid for.
 
I was always under the impression that anyone who worked at a school, with exceptions for Janitors and perhaps security staff, got paid every month regardless and longer holidays were just a perk as it meant you were unlikely to get any time off Monday-Friday in term time? Isn't that how it works for teachers?
 
i work for college.

there are 2 different contracts.

full time (52 weeks) with 30 (plus 8) annual leaves . we can have time off at any time. caretakers, IT staff, HR, cleaners, office admins. head of school/curriculum leaders,

term time only (36 weeks) with no holiday entitlement. they gets paid monthly over 12 months. teachers, canteen staff, classroom technicians, some cleaners, student support workers
 
Glanza said:
Can the role really be advertised as Senior ICT Tech considered the varied roles you want the person to do :confused:
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Well.

The HR only has the following roles to use;
Junior ICT tech
ICT Tech
Senior ICT tech.

They need someone to manage to the website and vle and those fall under the senior role. Thus they use that.

These roles are made by the LA, and the school simply uses them.
 
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