Careers and Employability Adviser

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., As a Careers and Employability Advisor at City of Bristol College, you will play a crucial role in delivering a professional and student-centred Career Education, Information, Advice, and Guidance (CEIAG) service. Your primary objective will be to inspire individuals by showcasing the diverse opportunities available in education, training, and employment. You'll provide inclusive support tailored to individual needs, fostering aspirations and facilitating positive student outcomes. Your responsibilities will include ensuring compliance with Gatsby Benchmarks, Matrix Standards, and Ofsted requirements across the college. Collaborating closely with teaching staff and personal development tutors, you will embed careers guidance into the curriculum and support the design and delivery of comprehensive careers programmes and workshops. Engaging with local labour market information, you'll empower students to make informed decisions about their career paths. Additionally, you will contribute to progression activities, monitor student attendance and progress, and facilitate workshops on essential employability topics. Your efforts will contribute to high application to enrolment conversions and positive student destinations.

We have four main sites across the city with state-of-the-art facilities. Further future investment in our estates is now allowing us to provide the best possible outcomes for our students and local communities, delivered by our fantastic community of colleagues. 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 and we provide education and training to approximately 10,000 students each year.

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.