ESOL Careers Advisor

Actual Salary: £12,319.00 – £13,447.50

Contract: Part Time 18.5 hours per week, Fixed Term until 31 August 2025

At City of Bristol College, we deliver transformative education in inclusive and dynamic learning environments and for our employees, this is no different so why not come and join us? With recent investments in our already outstanding facilities, the College has a great deal on offer for you.

One of our key strategic aims is our unrelenting focus on our people-first culture, ensuring you feel valued, empowered, and recognised for your individual contributions and expertise whether that be in a teaching capacity or a professional services team. All colleagues within the College contribute to the success of our students and we actively work to eliminate any barriers at work, ensuring you have the opportunity to thrive.

We have an exciting opportunity for an ESOL Careers Advisor to join our college community.

What we offer:

Our people-first ethos provides a highly supportive, flexible approach to enable you to excel within your role and to reach your full potential. In return, you can expect the following:

• Two-week paid Christmas close down and additional paid time off over Easter on top of a generous holiday entitlement of 26 holiday days, plus bank holidays (pro-rata for part time roles).
• Membership to the Local Government Pension Scheme with employer contributions of 18.0 %
• Paid Volunteering leave (3 days a year)
• Family friendly policies including paid fertility and foster friendly policy
• A menopause policy outlining support available
• A person-centred annual appraisal focusing on your wellbeing and CPD
• Access to a benefits portal including shopping discounts and cycle to work scheme plus lots more!
• The ‘Right to Disconnect’ from work outside of your normal working hours
• A supportive, highly utilised hybrid and flexible working policy · An Aspiring Leaders programme open to all plus our Management Academy for all management roles covering management skill and internal processes
• Welfare Rooms at all our sites for professional breakout and relaxation spaces
• A bespoke programme of recognition, reward and celebration for colleagues throughout the year to recognise your hard work.
• We 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 applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply to join us. As a disability confident employer,
• we take a trauma informed approach to our work, support the Care Leavers covenant, and have been awarded accreditation as a College of Sanctuary for refugees.
• You can have a look here at our Staff Benefits Booklet for even more.

About the role:

You will play an integral role in ensuring the College meets its planned Adult ESOL and Adult English and Maths enrolments.

By planning, implementing and recording an enhanced initial assessment for Adult students who have applied for Adult ESOL, Adult English and or Maths courses and to facilitate the enrolment onto a suitable course or courses.

Whilst providing a student focussed service in relation to impartial, high quality Career Education, Information, Advice and Guidance (CIAG), that inspires individuals by detailing the opportunities available to them in education, training and employment both at the start and towards the end of their programme of learning to ensure students make progress and move on to employment, further learning, or other positive destinations of relevance to the individual student.

Fostering an inclusive service that is responsive to individuals needs and includes discussions to raise their aspirations and support positive student destinations.

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 Samuel.Wilson@cityofbristol.ac.uk who will be happy to discuss the role in more detail.

About us:

At City of Bristol College, we have one goal: to help our students succeed. We offer the widest range of academic and vocational qualifications in the area, with more than 1,000 courses available from entry to degree level.  We 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, we have a wide range of community partners allowing us to offer courses in venues across the city. More information about the College can be found on our website. 

We 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.

We are also committed to becoming a Trauma informed setting. We recognise that some of our students have experienced adversity and Trauma and that for some, these experiences may be an ongoing part of everyday life. With this awareness a Trauma Informed approach is embedded in how we work in all departments across the college and this is enhanced by regular staff training and support.

City of Bristol College is committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults. The search of the online presence will be conducted for the successful candidates. All new employees to the College are required to complete and obtain an enhanced DBS disclosure. A copy of our Safeguarding Policy can be found on the College website. 

Please see our Job Description, Person Specification, Conditions of Service and Applicant information for more information.  

Closing date: 8th December

Interview date: 16th December