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.
The Cabot Learning Federation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All roles across the trust have a varying level of responsibility for ensuring safeguarding practice, with some roles holding significant responsibility and involving working with children on a daily basis in regulated activity. Regardless of the level of responsibility and involvement in each role, we expect all staff, visiting professionals and volunteers to share this commitment.
All successful candidates will undergo a comprehensive pre-employment checking process, including an enhanced DBS check (including a further check against the appropriate barred list), references from current and previous employers, health, right to work in the UK, child disqualification (where applicable), prohibition from teaching/management and online checks. You must also tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.