Apprenticeships

An apprenticeship is a real job and opportunity to offers hands-on experience, a salary and an opportunity to train while you work.

You’ll get a real industrial placement including an opportunity to gain qualifications up to a degree. There is a competitive salary paid to you while you training. Plus, the real world hands-on experience and the opportunity to learn skills that employers are truly looking for.

Anyone over the age of 16, living in England and not in full-time education. There’s no upper age limit and you could even have a job already, using it as an opportunity to gain qualifications and additional skills.

Hundreds of providers come together with ESL to network, share information, co-design services, help us tap into amazing Bristol resources and spread the word. The City Leaders Group for Employment and Skills provides a strategic forum for the DWP, the City Council, the local college, probation service and mental health service to discuss and tackle priorities together.

The Into Learning Meeting brings post 16 providers and frontline workers together to find post 16 places for young people disengaged from learning. The Ways2Work Network provides an opportunity for employment support providers to plan and promote their work together. The Community Learning Advisory Board provides a forum to monitor, champion and steer community learning in Bristol.

The value in all these collaborative forums and exchange networks is reaping rewards for all.

Hundreds of community-based organisations have joined forces with ESL to enable their members and users to access employment, skills and learning. Children Centres, schools, libraries, faith-based organisations, community groups and centres are working with Community Learning to host free courses and to distribute free digital devices to enable people to get online.

Some community groups and voluntary sector providers have been able to apply for funding from ESL through grants, sub-contracting and levy sharing. Some equalities groups and community leaders have been working with ESL to co-design customised programmes to meet the needs of under-represented and marginalised groups.

People join us from a range of backgrounds – all with a shared passion to make a difference. With our strong commitment to diversity, we are always welcoming of applications from people from equalities communities and those that have faced a non-traditional route into learning and work.  If you’re looking for a great career move where you can make a difference with others, then we’re interested in you!

There could be the perfect role here for you – whether you’re just starting out or you’ve already achieved success in other jobs. Across ESL, you will be able to develop your career in a thriving and supportive team, enjoy excellent learning and development opportunities, receive great benefits, a competitive salary and work in a friendly, collaborative and flexible environment. Sound good? Take a look at the Bristol City Council current vacancies page to find out if there are live job opportunities within our brilliant team.