Creative Arts Technician
Bristol Brunel Academy, Bristol, BS15 1NU12 days remaining to apply
Job start date
17 September 2026
Closing date
29 September 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
17 September 2026
Job details
Job role
- Other support role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subject
- Art and design
Working pattern
- Part time, full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full time equivalent salary
- £9,302 - £10,139
Creative Arts Technician job summary
Job Title: Creative Art Technician
Actual Annual Salary: £9,302 - £10,139 Based on hours and weeks worked.
Full Time Equivalent Salary: £26,798 – £29,208 (CLF Grade B). Based on 37 hours per week, all year round.
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Part time, 15 hours per week, 2 days per week (Wednesday and Thursday), Term time only + Inset Days
Provisional Start Date: November 2026
Are you looking for a Part Time role that provides classroom support within a creative department?
We are seeking a creative and enthusiastic individual to join our art and photography department. Under the supervision of the Curriculum Lead, the Creative Art Technician will provide technical assistance and support to facilitate excellent teaching and learning within the department. They will prepare, provide, and maintain the necessary resources required to enable safe and engaging practical activities to be undertaken by staff and students. The postholder will maintain an appropriate health and safety culture ensuring that all relevant health and safety regulations and guidelines are always adhered to.
Working closely with the Curriculum Lead and teaching staff, you will play an important role in supporting students in both art and photography lessons. As well as maintaining our three art rooms to ensure our creative environments are safe, organised and inspiring places for students to work. This includes supporting with displays of student work, maintenance of photography equipment and working one to one with students.
The ideal candidate will have experience working across art materials and understanding of photography, along with use of cameras
About you:
You will have:
- experience of instructing others to use specific equipment.
- a keen interest in working within an education-based environment and commitment to inclusion and acceptance of all.
- an understanding of the use and demonstration of relevant equipment, such as kiln, woodwork equipment, metal work equipment, etc.
- good general administration skills.
- a minimum of A Level standard in art and/or design technology and/or equivalent experience in art and/or design technology.
Why work at Bristol Brunel Academy:
Bristol Brunel Academy is a forward-thinking academy based in Speedwell, Bristol, which is rated 'Good' by Ofsted. We are consistently over-subscribed in every year group and have a positive and growing reputation within our community.
The academy celebrates diversity and serves a vibrant multi-cultural in-take, which reflects our local community. Bristol Brunel's leadership and staff are passionate about the development of equality, diversity and inclusion and want this to be reflected throughout the academy, including within the staff team.
Our students are proud to attend Bristol Brunel, are excited to learn and are real ambassadors for our community. All of our students benefit from a hugely positive and supportive learning environment and contemporary facilities.
Why work at CLF?
We are an equal opportunity employer and proud to serve a diverse student population and our communities. We strongly believe that representation matters. Over 49% of the students who attend Bristol Brunel Academy are from global majority groups, so we particularly encourage applicants from those groups in order to represent the students we serve, as well as wider underrepresented groups including gender, transgender, age disability, sexual orientation or religion.
We aim to remove any barriers to employment, ensuring everyone can compete on equal terms. Job share, part-time and flexible working opportunities will be considered.
What we can offer you:
- Access to a generous pension through the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).
- Generous annual leave.
- A comprehensive induction and ongoing commitment to wellbeing and career progression, through a range of training, apprenticeships and in-role/wider-trust development opportunities.
- Well-being support through an Employee Assistance Programme.
- Health benefits, including wellness sessions, gym discounts, and flu jabs.
- A range of generous family leave options, including above industry average occupational maternity pay.
- Additional benefits like cycle to work scheme, on-site parking plus many more!
Recruitment timeline:
• Closing Date: 29 September 2026 @11.59pm
• Short-listing: 30 September 2026
• Interviews: To be confirmed
We welcome visits from potential candidates. If you would like to arrange a school visit prior to the closing date, please contact the academy directly to arrange a suitable appointment.
As part of our commitment to Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE), we do not accept CVs – a full education and employment history must be provided through our application form.
Skilled Worker visas cannot be sponsored through this role, as it does not meet the requirements set out by government.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early, should we receive a high level of interest in the role. Therefore, candidates are advised to apply at their earliest convenience to avoid missing out.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Bristol Brunel Academy
- Organisation type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- Size
- 1267 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
Bristol Brunel Academy is part of the Cabot Learning Federation (CLF). Bristol Brunel Academy is a forward thinking Academy based in Speedwell, Bristol, rated “Good” by Ofsted in 2013 and 2017 and we strive to be ‘Outstanding' at our next inspection. The Academy are consistently over-subscribed in every year group and have been expanding numbers on roll each year making it one of the largest secondary schools in the city. The students are excited to learn and are real ambassadors for our diverse community, visitors comment on the 'pride' in the Academy from staff and students. They benefit from a hugely positive and supportive learning environment and state of the art facilities.
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