DT and Art Technician
The City Academy Bristol, Bristol, Avon, BS5 9JH13 days remaining to apply
Job start date
9 June 2025
Closing date
22 June 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
9 June 2025
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subjects
- Art and design, Design and technology
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- £21,523 - £23,460
DT and Art Technician job summary
Job Title: DT and Art Technician
Actual Annual Salary: £21,523 - £23,460 (Based on term time only hours and working weeks)
Full Time Equivalent Salary: £25,136 - £27,398 (CLF Grade B). Based on 37 hours per week, all year round.
Contract Type: Fixed-Term, due to increased workload within the team.
Contract Length: Fixed until 31 August 2026
Hours: Full-time, 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday, Term time only + 5 inset days
Additional role info: Working Pattern - Monday to Friday
Provisional Start Date: As soon as possible
Your opportunity to work within a busy, diverse academy supporting our students with design and technology studies:
We are looking for a dedicated and inspiring Design Technology, Art & Photography Technician to join our supportive and talented team at City Academy. We are a growing organisation, looking for professional and ambitious people, with a passion for transforming our students’ learning.
We are a diverse and thriving 11-16 school and you would be joining a passionate and talented team of staff in our highly successful Design Technology, Catering and occasional support for our Art/ Photography department.
We are very well resourced, with dedicated specialist practical rooms and extensive DT & art equipment as well as two technician prep rooms. We are looking for a highly organised individual who will be line managed by our Senior Art/DT Technician and is able to work independently, take initiative in developing the Art/ DT departments and who is confident in assisting in practical Design Technology, Art and Photography lessons.
To be successful in the post, we are looking for someone who will provide technical assistance and support to meet the practical requirements of the Design Technology, Art & Photography curriculums. This will require a range of practical skills although we can be flexible about this for the right person and can offer some in-house training to develop skills further.
This post will include the use of large workshop machinery and hand tools, the laser cutter, the kiln and photographic studio equipment. The successful candidate will prepare, provide, maintain and manage the necessary resources and information required to enable, safe and engaging practical activities to be undertaken by staff and students. They will be required to maintain an appropriate Health and Safety culture, ensuring that all relevant Health and Safety regulations and guidelines are adhered to at all times.
About City Academy:
City Academy Bristol is a vibrant, diverse and dynamic academy in the centre of Bristol. We provide an inclusive and accessible education, which transforms future opportunities for young people, their families and the community.
We are a well-positioned and well-connected academy with direct connection to the developments in Temple Quarter and key economic areas of east and central Bristol.
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 73% of the students who attend City Academy Bristol 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: 22 June 2025 @11.59pm
- Short-listing: 23 June 2025
- Interviews: 27 June 2025
We welcome visits from potential candidates. If you would like to arrange a school visit prior to the closing date, please contact the academy/site 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.
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 are not accepted.
About The City Academy Bristol
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 992 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- The City Academy Bristol website
City Academy is a very diverse school with a high proportion of disadvantaged students (47% PPI, 21% SEND and 40% EAL) serving its community in the heart of Bristol. It was the first academy in the South West, opening on the site of the St George School in 2003.
Students often arrive in the academy with very low prior attainment, with the Year 11 for 2021 having an average scaled score of 95.2(national average =102.4), 73% of Year 9 entered the school with a reading age below their chronological age and 24% having a reading age of less than 9 years old on entry.
Due to its location in Bristol a large number of refugee and migrant students attend the academy; 26% of the academy are “in year “ admissions and this increases in the older year groups. The main catchment area is the Lawrence Hill ward which is one of the 10% most deprived in the country where over 50% of children under 16 are living in poverty. Latest data indicates that the academy is in the highest percentile nationally for deprivation, and has the highest percentage of pupils who are pupil premium in the City.
The academy has been on a rapid improvement journey in the last four years which has seen outcomes improve to be consistently above floor and P8 = +0.26 in 2018 and for the cohort of students being educated on site P8 = +0.15 in 2019. In 2018 PP students achieve as well as England state-funded non-disadvantaged pupils with P8=0.13 and over half a grade per subject per PP students compared to PP student progress nationally (-0.40). The vision for the academy is built and communicated around the following statement:
We exist to address inequality so that all students are equipped to make the choice to: go to university, choose their career and improve the world so that we make a positive contribution to society.
We value grit, honesty and team spirit so that we win in life.
We educate everyone in our local community."
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