Bootcamp Career & Apprenticeship Mentor

We are delighted to launch this exciting opportunity to join an ambitious and forward-thinking College to support students throughout their Skills Bootcamp programme to securing a job or apprenticeship opportunity. Do you have a careers, mentoring or recruitment experience?

We are looking to recruit a Bootcamp Career & Apprenticeship Mentor, to work with adults on both a group and individual basis, to ensure a positive student journey experience through their training programme to employment.

The Bootcamp Career & Apprenticeship Mentor will:

• Mentor students during their 12-16 week skills programme
• Develop progression action plans and provide job and apprenticeship opportunity search support
• Support students to secure a positive destination at the end of their training.

This is a Fixed Term Contract for 1 year, working 37 hours per week / 52 weeks per year. Successful candidates will be based at our Aylesbury Campus and Flackwell Heath Campus.

While working at Buckinghamshire College Group you can also take advantage of a host of employee benefits including:

• Pension scheme - LGPS (18.3% employer contribution)
• 30 days holiday entitlement plus Bank Holidays & Additional annual leave purchase scheme
• A wide range of learning - access to free training & continuous professional development
• A bespoke package of intensive induction and probation support
• Flexible working policy and a commitment to employee wellbeing
• Discounts in the Aylesbury Day Nursery & Aylesbury Salon Intuition
• 24hrs/7days a week access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
• Cycle to work and local business employee corporate discount schemes

Buckinghamshire College Group is a Further Education college with three campuses located in Aylesbury, Amersham and Wycombe. We are proud to be a skills-based college supporting over 5000 learners each year to achieve their study and career goals and play a pivotal role in the Buckinghamshire community working with a wide range of employers for example, Pinewood Studios, NHS Trusts and Flannery Plant Hire to name but a few.

You will have an unwavering passion for learning and for supporting learners and staff to achieve more than they ever thought possible - we call this the Bucks College Factor!

If you have the Bucks College Factor, this sounds like a role for you and Buckinghamshire College Group sounds like a place you'd like to be part of, then we'd love to hear from you.

Commitment to Safeguarding

BCG is committed to equal opportunities for all, safeguarding and promoting the welfare of students and staff alike; all posts are subject to enhanced DBS checks.

Please contact HR for further details or to arrange a tour of the campus.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early, if we receive sufficient applications or source a suitable candidate. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

Only completed applications will be considered for this role. All applicants will need to complete an application form via our College Website.

Closing date for applications is the 4th February 2024, with interviews being held shortly afterwards.

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