Personal Development Tutor

Contract: Fixed Term (until August 31st 2025), 22 hours per week (0.6FTE) (Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday)

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 Personal Development Tutor to join our team.

Our Benefits:

• A generous holiday entitlement of 26 holiday days, plus bank holidays and 10 closure days which fallover 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:

As a Personal Development Tutor, you will provide students with mentoring and coaching support throughout their academic programme of study. You are also required to meet with the timetabled groups of students on a weekly basis in delivery of our Personal Development programme which aims to promote the students personal, social and emotional well-being.

You will build positive working relationships with all students you will need to work with and will need to understand the curriculum that the student is enrolled in and offer empathy and compassion whilst supporting the individual to remove barriers to their learning.

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.

Please see our Job Description for more information about the role.

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.