Grade + Salary: BG9 - £31,537 full time, actual annual salary £14,395
Hours: 18.5 hours per week,
Term time plus 2 weeks work out of normal hours/days (pro-rata to 1 week)
This is a fixed term contract commencing on 01.09.2026 until 20.07.2027.
Probation period: This role is subject to passing a satisfactory probation period.
Cotham School, a successful, vibrant and diverse 11-18 comprehensive school, wishes to appoint an experienced Academic Mentor.
Required to support the North Bristol Post 16 Centre (NBP16) team at the Cotham Learning Community. NBP16 is a diverse, ambitious and industrious community, which is a collaboration between Cotham and Redland Green Schools. We have been working together for over a decade to educate support and elevate the exceptional young people in our care.
We wish to recruit an Academic Mentor to be based at Post 16 Centre, Cotham. This is an opportunity to join a collaborative team where we support, challenge and encourage students through one to one meetings, workshops and advice and guidance to develop key study skills to ensure they become independent life-long learners ready for their next steps and able to achieve their very best. In addition, you will be required to oversee and develop our student leadership provision, providing opportunities for students to gain skills and experience outside of the curriculum, contributing to their wider community and social justice ambitions.
We offer:
- the opportunity to join a hugely successful and oversubscribed school
- a wonderfully diverse student body
- a highly cohesive, experienced and high-performing Senior Leadership Team
- a committed and enthusiastic staff group
- excellent opportunities for personal and professional development
Cotham School is a great place to work. Our staff are a cohesive, friendly and high performing team of professionals who are keen to welcome new colleagues into our school community to contribute to and share in our achievements. Join us and you’ll receive a wide range of employee benefits including:
- access to employee assistance programme – this includes counselling, physio sessions, menopause support, bereavement support and much more.
- ongoing learning and development opportunities and access to the school CPD library
- at least 5 inset (training) days per annum with the provision of free onsite drinks and meals including the opportunity to work flexibly on some of these days
- opportunity for staff to use flexible working hours on occasions
- comprehensive induction process
- competitive salaries which are reviewed annually
- family friendly policies and wellbeing support initiatives
- access to online gyms and health sessions
- access to staff sports - yoga sessions currently
- option to participate in the cycle to work scheme
- on site free car parking (when available)
- free eye tests (Display Screen Equipment Users) and free annual flu jab
As a diverse school community, we particularly welcome applicants from underrepresented groups with regards to ethnicity, gender, age and disability.
Cotham School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All staff will need to be DBS checked.
Please visit our website for further details and application pack.
Closing date: Tues 02.06.2026 at 9.00 am
Interview date: Tues 09.06.2026
Cotham School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of appointment are conditional on the following:
- Enhanced DBS check
- Satisfactory completion of a Staff Disqualification Declaration form
- Confirmation that you are not subject to either a Prohibition Order or Interim Prohibition Order
- The receipt of at least 2 satisfactory references
- Verification of identity
- Verification of medical fitness
- Verification of qualifications
- Verification of QTS where required
- Verification that they are legally able to work in UK
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974. The amendments to the ROA 1974 (Exceptions Order 1975, (amended 2013 and 2020)) provide that when applying for certain jobs and activities, certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account .
Cotham School’s child protection policy and practices and policy on employment of ex-offenders in the application pack can be found on the School website.