West of England
West of England opportunities
West of England Combined Authority have a web page dedicated to the job and retraining opportunities in your local area. It is called the Employment and Skills portal.
Here you will find:
- Careers Advice and Guidance booklets
- A guide to support with job searches, CV skills and more
- Information on reskilling
- Support if you have been made redundant
Most of the information that you will find here will be linked to jobs that have lots of vacancies or a shortage of skills. You can visit this part of the webite to tell you more about the skills that are needed in the West of England.
In Lifepilot you can also find Providers near to where you live that offers courses for adults. When using Lifepilot, register, so you can save all of the information you find useful, and get back to it later.
FUTURE BRIGHT
Future Bright offers FREE career coaching, training and support to help you develop the skills and confidence you need to take your next step. When you join Future Bright, you’ll be matched with a dedicated career coach who will support you to create a personalised action plan.
You can find out more by visiting their website.
RESTART
At a time of significant economic and social turbulence, Bath College and Bath Spa University are proud to be working together in the creation and launch of RESTART, a post-pandemic recovery package of inclusive skills and reskilling.
The core aim of RESTART is to ensure that the local community have an accessible opportunity to reskill in order to maximise employment and progression opportunities, whilst giving them the opportunity to maximise their chances of re-employment and/or employment in a new sector by focusing on ‘in demand’ skills from basic to advanced.
Want to get back into study? Find out how Lifepilot can help!
The Lifepilot website is for any adult interested in studying at a higher education level, either now or in the future.
Lifepilot has lots of information, links, real stories and tools to help you get started.
In your local area there will be a number of places that you can study Further and Higher Education course as an adult.
In West of England you could study at Bath Spa University, University of West of England, Bridgwater and Taunton College and SGS College, as well as a number of others. All of these can be found in our provider page.
More support from your local council
Even more support for you can be found in the following local and county council websites:
- Bristol: ways2work.org.uk
- Bath and North East Somerset: achieveinbathnes.co.uk | bathnes.gov.uk/ser...
- South Gloucestershire: southglos.gov.uk/j...
- North Somerset: innorthsomerset.co.uk | n-somerset.gov.uk/...