Job at a glance
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 to join our vibrant college community as a Ceramicist Evening Course Tutor at our College Green Campus. This role would suit a practising ceramicist, maker or creative practitioner who is passionate about sharing their specialist skills with adult learners in a supportive, creative and professionally managed studio environment. In this rewarding role, you will deliver two 8-week evening ceramics courses on Tuesday evenings within our ceramics space at College Green.
You will support learners to develop confidence with clay, materials, processes and techniques, while creating a welcoming and inspiring learning environment. There is also the opportunity for this role to grow, supporting the development of future evening, adult and community ceramics courses as part of our wider creative curriculum offer. 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 26/30/35 holiday days, plus bank holidays (pro-rata for part time roles). Membership to the Local Government Pension Scheme with employer contributions of 18.0 % Membership to the Teachers' Pension Scheme with employer contributions of 28.68% 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 your role: In this rewarding role, you will plan and deliver high-quality evening ceramics sessions for adult learners. You will introduce learners to a range of ceramics processes, demonstrate safe and effective use of tools, materials and equipment, and sup