Art, Textiles and Performing Arts Technician

Parkside School, Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD13 5AD

9 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  17 June 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  2 June 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £18,435.00 - £19,023.00 Annually (Actual) SCP 4-6

Art, Textiles and Performing Arts Technician job summary

32.5 hours per week, plus training days (working hours to be between 8.00 am and 4.00 pm)

[hours negotiable for the right candidate]

Do you want a job where you make a difference to the lives of children and young people?

Do you want to be inspired on a daily basis by your work?

Do you have pride in your work and a desire to be developed further?

Are you focused on giving great service to a dynamic department?

It is a very exciting time to join Parkside School, a part of Wellspring Academy Trust, recently awarded the title of Multi Academy Trust of the year. We have a new Principal, new uniform and school curriculum and as such, we are on an exciting journey. We are looking for like-minded, motivated staff to join us and positively contribute to this journey. Wellspring Academy Trust is known for its inclusive practice and a focus on high challenge and high support. These values are matched by Parkside School. Details of Wellspring Academy Trust can be found at: https://wellspringacademytrust.co.uk/

‘We make a difference’ - if you have the same philosophy, this may be the job for you.

We are looking for a like-minded, talented Technician to work alongside our Teachers and Head of Faculty in this key role. The full job description for the role is outlined in the separate document and you will work between these three important areas at different points in a flexible manner.

This post is ideally suited for someone with drive, resilience, and determination and who thrives on challenge. You will have experience of working within the Arts, Textiles or Performing Arts and ideally have worked in the education system in the past. However, for the right candidate, full training will be given. The hours for the post are outlined above but there may be some flexibility in these.

We will offer you the opportunity to:

• Be welcomed into our supportive staff team and experience our special sense of community

• Be supported in your continued professional development

• Become part of the extremely strong and supportive Wellspring Academy Trust in which there are regular opportunities to collaborate and share practice

We encourage any applicant to come and visit the school or to book an informal phone conversation about this role with the Head of Faculty, Gill Stone at gstone@parksideschool.net

If you are as excited by this challenge as we are and you think this might be the role for you, please apply by submitting a completed application form, having taken note of the attachments and email it to recruitment@parksideschool.net no later than 9am on Tuesday 17th June 2025. Please note, we do not accept CV's. Interviews for successfully shortlisted candidates will be undertaken soon after this date.

Wellspring Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils. All posts are offered subject to enhanced DBS checks. References will be requested and an online search carried out for shortlisted candidates, prior to attendance at interview. Further pre-employment checks, including prohibition from teaching, childcare disqualification and section 128 checks, if deemed relevant for the role, will be completed for the successful candidate upon acceptance of the post.

We are committed to equal opportunities and to promoting diversity. We want our people to reflect the diversity of our communities, and we welcome applications from people from all backgrounds, especially from under-represented groups, including those from Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities.

If you are currently living overseas or have lived / worked overseas in the last five years please be aware that you will be required to provide an overseas criminal records check from the country/countries you have resided in, if you are the preferred candidate for the post.

Commitment to safeguarding

Wellspring Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils. All posts are offered subject to enhanced DBS checks. As this role involves working with children in regulated activity, please note that it is an offence to apply for the role if barred from engaging in regulated activity with children.

References will be requested and an online search carried out for shortlisted candidates, prior to interview. Further pre-employment checks, including prohibition from teaching, childcare disqualification and section 128 checks, if relevant for the role, will be completed for the successful candidate upon acceptance of the post.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Parkside School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1144 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Parkside School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/parkside-school-bradford

Parkside School and locality

We want all of our schools to make a positive contribution to the community that they are embedded within. This impact should be meaningful, considerable and lasting.

We want the young people of Parkside school to have every available opportunity to develop into well-rounded citizens who are equipped to make a positive contribution and who know how to keep themselves safe. We want students to have passionate hopes for their future; hopes that they can articulate, believe in and make real. We want to develop a nurturing environment that develops students who can empathise, critique, protect, love, inspire, make, design, explore and understand; students who are willing to try things they have never tried before, do things they have never done before and who are willing to risk reimagining themselves as the very best version of what they can become.

Located in the picturesque village of Cullingworth, Parkside School is surrounded by rolling hills and dramatic countryside.

The village, three miles south of Keighley and seven miles west of central Bradford, is not only popular with commuters but also with tourists, walkers and cyclists who revel in some of the country’s most glorious scenery.

The locality is steeped in history; the Brontë Parsonage Museum and its famous literary collections lie less than five miles east.

Also on the doorstep is the Saltaire World Heritage Site; a Victorian model village that is home to Salts Mill, which itself boasts striking architecture, eateries and shopping.

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