Weston College

About Us

Weston College is an Ofsted outstanding college of further and higher education in Weston-Super-Mare.

It provides education and vocational training to nearly 30,000 learners across the country. The College is regarded as one of the top FE colleges in the UK and won both “College of the Year” and “Overall Further Education Provider of the Year” at the 2015 Times Educational Supplement Further Education Awards.

It teaches a range of higher education courses through University Centre Weston, as well as 70 different apprenticeships from intermediate to degree-level.

Our mission

Weston College's mission is 'Creating brighter futures', which means that we put our students at the heart of everything we do...

Our values

• We put students first
• We are entrepreneurial in approach and innovative in our thinking
• We are ambitious and aspirational
• We value diversity and celebrate success
• We enable collaboration and work in partnership
• We are responsive to the needs of students, staff, businesses and the community
• We provide a safe and sustainable place to study and work

Our corporate aims include:

• Ensuring a safe, stimulating and innovative learning and working environment, responsive to the needs of individuals, businesses and the wider communities
• Supporting the learning environment through an embedded culture of inclusion, equality and partnership
• Creating a secure, supportive, responsive and welcoming environment for our students, staff and business partners
• Harnessing technology to provide an innovative, flexible, and varied learning and working environment
• Improving opportunities and enabling learners to succeed, progress and meet future challenges by providing high quality teaching, learning and assessment
• Listening and respecting the views of students, the business community and our staff
• Remaining a financially robust organisation through long-term financial health enabling the delivery of all corporate aims and objectives.

What it’s like to work for us?

As one of the fastest-growing Colleges in the UK, delivering courses from Entry Level right up to Master's Degrees, Weston College is an inspiring place to work.

This is an exciting time to join Weston College. Over recent years, the College has gone from strength to strength, earning Ofsted's ‘outstanding’ rating, our higher education provision is graded ‘Gold’ by TEF, and in 2018 we received the Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education.

Furthermore, the College is an Investors in People ‘Champion’ and has been awarded ‘Platinum’ by Investors in People, which demonstrates our commitment to invest in our staff to improve performance.

The type of jobs we recruit for?

We offer a wide variety of opportunities including:

- Full and part time lecturing roles across a broad range of subject areas
- Vocational trainer assessor roles
- Learning support roles
- Business support roles within areas such as customer service, finance, management information systems, marketing and estates
- Teaching and support roles within the prison education departments of prisons throughout the South West and South East of England