Working Hours: Full time (37.5 hours a week) Term time only, with an expectation to work 3–6 weeks worked in school holidays (term times as stipulated by Bristol City Council)
Who we are: We support children and young people living in Bristol, South Glos and the surrounding areas, providing engaging play and youth work embedded in communities. We also provide personalised part-time and full-time alternative education environments for children and young people to overcome barriers to engagement and learning.
What we do: At LPW, we provide safe, emotionally supportive and enriching spaces where children and young people can: build trusted and trauma-informed relationships; grow in confidence and independence; overcome challenges; and have ownership of their learning and future.
Job Purpose:
LPW College is a new provision from September 2026. LPW College will provide a progression route for LPW Students (LPW School and Education Recovery Project) and young people we engage with through our community-based youth work.
LPW College is built around our core principles of relational practice, trauma-informed approaches and zero exclusion. It will provide a post-16 service for young people that is tailored to supporting young people with social, emotional and mental health (SEMH) needs or who have experienced significant barriers to education. LPW College students will be supported by our team, who can understand and can meet their needs, ensuring that young people thrive in our settings and successfully transition into full-time education, employment or training.
In line with our organisational values and wider provision, you will set the vision for LPW College. You will be part of the LPW Senior Leadership Team and will provide operational leadership and strategic oversight of LPW College. You will work to develop our programme, hold accountability and responsibility for ensuring our delivery model, staffing, curriculum and provision meet positive and measurable outcomes for young people with SEMH needs.
LPW values: • Inclusive: We celebrate and embrace diversity and ensure everyone is seen, heard and valued. • Collaborative: We work in partnerships alongside children, young people, families, communities and other professionals to achieve success. • Innovative: We are bold and creative in our approach to inspire confidence, independence and free-thinking. • Compassionate: We are trauma-informed – offering safe, emotionally available spaces for children and young people to learn and thrive. • Brave: We foster strength and perseverance, even in the face of challenges and diversity.
You will have the opportunity to work for a community interest company that has a social mission at its core and drives the way we undertake business. In addition, we have a range of benefits such as a 4% employer contribution to our pension scheme, travel loans, childcare vouchers (where applicable) and a cycle to work scheme, free employee assistance program, paid-for learning and development opportunities and clinical supervision with trauma informed therapeutic practitioners. LPW is a Living Wage and Disability Confident employer. We are an equal opportunities organisation and welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates.
Learning Partnership West CIC is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.We particularly welcome applications from under represented groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation or religion.