Student Support - Duty Assistant
Digitech Studio School, Bristol, BS30 8XQ16 days remaining to apply
Job start date
5 January 2026
Closing date
23 November 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
7 November 2025
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £13,207 - £19,631
Student Support - Duty Assistant job summary
Job Title: Student Support - Duty Assistant
Actual Annual Salary: 22 hours equates to £13,207 – £14,396 / 30 hours equates to £18,010 – £19,631
Full Time Equivalent Salary: £25,941 - £28,275 (CLF Grade B) Based on full time hours, all year round.
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Part-time, 22 -30 hours per week, Monday to Friday / Term Time Only, Including Inset Days
Additional role info: Working Pattern equates to Monday all day, Wednesday all day, Thursday all day, Friday all day (However can be discussed at interview stage)
Provisional Start Date: January 2026
Are you passionate about making a difference in young people’s lives?
Do you thrive in a dynamic school environment where every day brings new challenges and opportunities to grow?
If so, we want to hear from you!
We’re looking for a dedicated, proactive, and empathetic individual to join our pastoral team as a Student Support – Duty Assistant. This is a vital role supporting students across the school site, helping them overcome barriers to learning and promoting a calm, inclusive, and high-performing school culture.
You will be a visible and supportive presence around the school, helping students access lessons and stay on track, building strong and professional relationships with students, staff, and families.
About you:
You will:
- Be committed to improving life chances for all pupils and believes in the power of education.
- See feedback as a gift and strives to be better every day.
- Have a caring and understanding attitude, with strong interpersonal skills and emotional intelligence. Respond to duty calls and behaviour incidents with empathy and professionalism.
- Be patient, calm under pressure, and able to make sound decisions.
- Has good literacy and numeracy skills (GCSE Maths and English at grade C or above or equivalent).
- Understands safeguarding, confidentiality, and data protection (GDPR).
- Has experience working with challenging young people and managing behaviour effectively.
- Can use IT systems confidently, including MS Excel and Management Information Systems.
- Committed to continuous professional development, including relevant qualifications (e.g. NVQ Level 2/3, First Aid).
Applicants are advised to refer to the full requirements of the role in the attached job description and person specification, prior to submitting an application.
About Digitech Studio School Academy:
Digitech delivers a specialised curriculum for 14 to 19-year-olds, where we offer progression into the creative digital and high-tech sectors. We are located in Warmley, on the outskirts of Bristol and South Gloucestershire. Studio schools are small by design, and we only take 90 students into each year group. This allows us to meet the needs of students in a personalised way.
Digitech Studio School has been on an enormous improvement journey over the past few years which has seen outcomes consistently improve year-on-year with all indicators. The academy is diverse in its intake and proud that we serve all of the families in our community. There is real pride from colleagues that they work at Digitech Studio School and contribute to a cause greater than themselves.
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 and so encourage applications from underrepresented and global majority groups including ethnicity, 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 the Teachers’ Pension Scheme.
- Comprehensive induction and ongoing support for career development and wellbeing.
- Sector-leading professional development entitlement and opportunities.
- Collaboration with colleagues across the trust through subject communities and specialist networks.
- Shared CLF curriculum, written and curated by trust experts, reducing individual teacher workload.
- Career enhancing and progression opportunities within the trust and through the CLF Institute.
- A collaborative culture which supports workload.
- 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 and many more!
Recruitment timeline:
- Closing Date: 23 November 2025 @11.59pm
- Shortlisting Date: 24 November 2025
- Interviews: 28 November 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.
Please note we are not able to offer visa sponsorship for this role.
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.
As a Disability Confident Committed Employer, we are dedicated to equity and inclusion and commit to interviewing applicants with a disability who meet the essential criteria. We aim to provide an inclusive and accessible recruitment process, and support employees throughout their employment. If you have a disability, are neurodivergent, or require any adjustments to support you through the application or interview process please let us know how we can assist.
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 Digitech Studio School
- School type
- Free School, ages 14 to 19
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 593 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 14 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Digitech Studio School website
Digitech is a 14-19 Studio School that is a fully integrated part of the Cabot Learning Federation. We are a specialist studio school providing a bespoke curriculum for the coders, designers, creatives, film makers and entrepreneurs of the future.
The school is going from strength to strength with improving outcomes each year. Student and parent voice is strong.
There are 220 students who study at Digitech and both staff and students enjoy this smaller setting and the benefits that this brings.
Digitech staff are a diverse group of professionals with representation from different ages, genders, cultural backgrounds and the BAME and LGBTQ+ communities. We actively welcome applications from BAME and LGBTQ professionals.
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