Job description

Salary: £29,736 - £33,453 Plus £5K Market Supplement
Contract: Full time, Permanent, 37 hours over 52 weeks
Location: SBSA, Bristol, BS14 0DB, United Kingdom

There’s never been a better time to join the fantastic team here at City of Bristol College, a rapidly improving college, judged “Good” by Ofsted in January 2023. With recent investments in our already outstanding teaching facilities, the College has a great deal on offer for both staff and students.

We have an exciting new opportunity for an enthusiastic and proactive Plumbing Apprenticeship Trainer.

Our Benefits:

• A generous holiday entitlement of 30 holiday days, plus bank holidays pro-rata for part time roles. Also, 10 closure days which fall over Christmas to spend time with friends and families.
• Membership to the Local Government Pension Scheme with employer contributions of 18.0 %
• Family-friendly policies including flexible and hybrid working, compassionate leave, enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave, fostering friendly leave and fertility treatment leave
• Up to 3 days paid volunteer leave
• A supportive package to ensure continuous professional development.
• Excellent facilities including study centres, City Salon, multi-faith prayer rooms, bike storage, City Restaurant (situated at College Green and at SBSA), refectories and welfare rooms
• Great discounts on hair and beauty treatments offered on site
• Benefits platform with variety online shopping discounts and offers, cycle to work scheme and cash health plan.

About the role:
Your role will involve assessing and supporting students in their workplace to ensure they meet or exceed targets to enable them to achieve their qualifications. You will be a confident communicator with the ability to build and maintain excellent working relationships with Colleagues, Students and Stakeholders both internally and externally.

You will be required to work 37 hours per week on a permanent basis and must be qualified to NVQ 3 as a plumbing and heating engineer with 5 years industry experience. This role requires travel to the workplace of our students and as such you must have access to your own vehicle and hold a driving licence.

If you’re not yet in education but are wanting to influence the next generation of tradespeople then City of Bristol College is the right place for you! We will fully fund and support you to gain the correct teaching and assessing qualifications to enable you to carry out your role. We offer a full induction and benefits package that includes a generous annual leave entitlement and membership to the Public Sector Pension Scheme.

You will be a confident communicator with the ability to build and maintain excelling working relationships with colleagues, students and stakeholders both internally and externally.

Contact us:
If you would like to find out more about this role, please contact the recruiting manager on Sean.cobley@cityofbristol.ac.uk 0117 312 5914 who will be happy to discuss the role in more detail.

About us:
Bristol Professional Services operates in and support the City of Bristol College. The College have one goal: to help students succeed. They offer the widest range of academic and vocational qualifications in the area, with more than 1,000 courses available from entry to degree level and provide education and training to approximately 12,000 students each year. The College is made up of five centres across Bristol and each centre offers excellent, well-equipped, purpose-built facilities. In addition, they have a wide range of community partners allowing them to offer courses in venues across the city. More information about the College can be found on the website.

Bristol Professional Services are committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed. We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join us.

Bristol Professional Services is committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults. All new Bristol Professional Services employees are required to complete and obtain an enhanced DBS disclosure. A copy of our Safeguarding Policy can be found on the College website.

Closing date: 27th October 2024
Interview date: 6th November 2024