Independent Living Support Worker

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 enthusiastic and proactive Independent living support worker to join our college community.

About your role:

Our Independence Training Facilities train students with learning difficulties and disabilities who are attending College study programmes to live independent lives.?You will be bringing your residential experience to this role, working closely with the Colleges teaching and Additional Learning Support teams. 

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. 

As an Independent Living Support Worker, you will work as part of a team to promote a positive experience and support students to work towards the “Preparing for Adulthood” outcomes; 

• Employability
• Independent Living 
• Health 
• Community Inclusion 

The vacancy is for 12 hours a week role working during the college term times for 38 weeks of the year on the following shift pattern;

• Sunday 16:00 – 22:30
• Monday 17:00 – 22:30

You will have the opportunity to carry out sleep-ins (22:00 – 06:30) which are paid in addition to your salary at the Real Living Wage. You will be automatically be enrolled into the centres sleep-in rota (1 sleep-in per fortnight) and the spare sleep-in rotation. You can choose to opt out at any time by speaking to the Independence Training Facility Manager. 

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.