IT Consultant
Cathedral Schools Trust, Bristol, BS20 0HU5 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
10 August 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
4 August 2025
Job details
Job role
- IT support
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: Full time (37.5 hours per week) year round, fixed term.
Contract type
- Fixed term - 12 months
Pay scale
- SCP24 - SCP30 (£29,777 - £35,227 per annum) This salary does not include any annual increase that may be awarded by CST Trustees for the academic year 2025/2026.
What skills and experience we're looking for
About Us
Cathedral Schools Trust (CST) is a family of schools committed to inspiring learning both in and beyond the classroom. With a strong focus on music and the creative arts, we support every student and staff member in reaching their full potential. If you’re looking for a Trust that values creativity, growth, and meaningful learning, CST could be the perfect place for you.
The Opportunity
We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly skilled IT Consultant to join our dynamic and proactive ICT team from 1 September 2025, or as soon as possible, for a 1 year fixed term contract.
This role will have very varied responsibilities, including but not limited to providing face to face technical support to users across the Trust, providing advice and training to improve users' understanding of ICT and their experience of its use, diagnosing and troubleshooting problems as required, participating in wide scale ICT projects, supporting in looking after networks, infrastructure, backups and cyber security.
About You
You are likely to have gained the skills to clearly communicate technical issues to non-specialists through your career or personal experience. You will be able to bring to us initiative and excellent technical skills, with the ability to build productive working relationships, going above and beyond in providing support in the pursuit of excellence.
More information about the Trust, School and Role
To find out more about this role, please read the job description and person specification.
To find out more about Cathedral Schools Trust and St Katherine’s School, Pill, please read the attached Recruitment pack or visit our website: https://www.cathedralschoolstrust.org/
Informal enquiries can be made via email to Thomas Bliss, ICT Director, tbliss@cathedalschoolstrust.org
We can offer you
Continuing Professional and Leadership development
Employee assistance programme, offering counselling, support and advice on a wide array of areas
Discounted gym membership, Cycle-to-work scheme, Eyesight test vouchers
Free onsite parking at St Katherine’s School.
Flexible working fully supported and enhanced family friendly policies
All new staff are automatically enrolled in the Teacher’s Pension or LGPS Avon Pension Fund.
How to apply …
We are committed to creating an inclusive working environment. If you are excited about this role and can demonstrate many but not all of the requirements on the job description and/or person specification, we would encourage you to apply as you may just be the person we are looking for.
Please complete our application form by Midnight on Sunday 10 August 2025
Shortlisted candidates will be invited to attend an interview on Friday 15 August 2025 via Google Meets
All candidates will be advised of the outcome of their application following the closing date
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts at Cathedral Schools Trust are subject to pre-employment checks incl, but not limited to, initial and periodic enhanced level checks with the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Applications are welcome from all suitably qualified candidates regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or religious belief, sex or sexual orientation, gender reassignment, disability or age, and maternity, marital or civil partner status. We particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups.
The School may carry out online searches on shortlisted applicants and all applicants will be required to provide details of their online profile, including social media account names/handles, as part of the interview process.
The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. The School is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions on a self-declaration form in advance of attending an interview (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.
What the school offers its staff
We can offer you
Continuing Professional and Leadership development
Employee assistance programme, offering counselling, support and advice on a wide array of areas
Discounted gym membership, Cycle-to-work scheme, Eyesight test vouchers
Free onsite parking at St Katherine’s School.
Flexible working fully supported and enhanced family friendly policies
All new staff are automatically enrolled in the Teacher’s Pension or LGPS Avon Pension Fund.
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
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
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About Cathedral Schools Trust
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
- Email address
- recruitment@cathedralschoolstrust.org
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