Working for Nottingham College feels like more than just a job. We offer careers with a rewarding social purpose – to unlock potential through learning. We educate and support over 20,000 every year, across Nottingham and nationally across the UK too. Our vision is to be recognised as an outstanding provider of choice for education and skills training, and as a place of work we want to be an employer of choice too. We offer a wide range of exciting employment pathways and that’s why working for us is a brilliant career move!

Our greatest asset is our people.

That’s why our Nottingham College promise to you is vast. Nottingham College believes in changing lives through excellence in education and employment. We are ambitious for our city and are committed to creating a high quality and distinctive beacon for education and training, not just for the 30,000 or so students and customers of the college, but for our staff too.

In joining us you will be rewarded with not only an attractive salary and benefits package, you will be at the heart of a bustling and exciting student environment.

Your success will be recognised and rewarded, your health and wellbeing will be nourished and nurtured and your continued professional development will be encouraged and supported. We’ll ensure you receive a fantastic warm welcome and we will do all we can to introduce you to opportunities that help you to develop your skills and talents, not only for your current role, but to support you in progressing into new, more challenging and senior roles, either within our organisation or onto pastures new.

Our team here at Nottingham College are united in their passion and commitment to our students.

Our operations are vast. As one of the largest FE colleges in the country, we employ more than 1300 staff, across 10 campus sites. A huge proportion of our staff are teachers and lecturers with the majority of these having spent time in industry. Our other staff are professionals working in support functions from customer service, finance and accounting, HR, marketing and estates management.

Whilst we are one of the largest employers in Nottingham, we are one team. We work together, help each other and overcome challenges, whenever they may arise, to give our students the very best college experience we can offer.

You can read more about our Strategic Plan here

One Team

We are the product of multiple mergers over the years so we’ve got pretty good at coming together as one team.

Here you will feel supported by a network of like-minded colleagues who are passionate about their job and who put our students at the heart of everything we do.

Whether you teach or work within one of our support functions, we encourage you to get out, in front of students. You could even deliver a lesson!

We all have an impact on a student’s experience of college – whether we teach the lessons, keep the building clean and safe, process applications or enrolments, design advertising that attracts a student, or cook in our onsite cafes, we are all in this together.

Flexibility

We pride ourselves on our emphasis and promotion of a positive work-life balance. Happy staff mean happy students so your wellbeing is paramount.

We promote flexible working arrangements so that there are no barriers in your way to doing a fantastic job.

Over 50% of our workforce works part-time and many more work flexible hours so that they can care for children, other members of their family or pursue other interests.

Leadership

Leadership development is a key part of our training and development offer.

A lot of our colleagues hold a management or leadership qualification and more are scheduled to take up a course this year. Many of our managers started out their careers as a non-manager with us and we are proud of our track record in supporting our staff to develop and reach their potential, wherever they see their career taking them.

Community

The College’s work in the community is unprecedented.

We deliver hundreds of courses out in community venues, many free of charge, to adults who find themselves long-term unemployed, who need to upskill to meet the needs of the modern workplace or who need support to build confidence and rapport with like-minded people.

In addition, we take corporate social responsibility seriously too. Our staff are encouraged to take up volunteering and are offered one day a year to take time out from their job to give something back to the community by way of volunteering.

Diversity

Our strength as a college and as a workforce is our diversity. Our commitment to diversity is strengthened still by our regular cross-college OD and HR Committee and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee, which take place monthly and ensure the College is proactive in embracing and celebrating our diversity in a number of fantastic initiatives that take place throughout the year.