We are excited to be recruiting into our Heritage team. We are transforming Kingsley Hall - our charity’s base and Grade 2* listed building - into a welcoming space that will provide training, support and housing for young people who have been homeless, at risk of homelessness or are leaving care. The Kingsley Hall project is made possible with The National Lottery Heritage Fund.
Thanks to National Lottery players, we are now able to deliver a 5-year Activity Plan exploring the history of the building and the relevant themes, running creative heritage projects, gaining skills, knowledge and experience linked to the heritage sector.
As part of this exciting Heritage project, we are excited to offer a 6-month trainee role, with a focus on supporting a Heritage Film making project with Young People as participants.
Please find full details of how to apply via our website in the advert below. The deadline for application submissions is 23:59, Monday 16 June 2025. We will close applications for this opportunity when we have received sufficient applications, as these posts have previously been popular.
We are striving to better represent the young people we support and therefore are particularly keen to increase applications from minoritized ethnic groups, and male candidates as they are currently under-represented in our organisation. We also encourage applications from people with relevant lived experience.
If you need an adjustment to be made to any part of the recruitment process, please let us know as soon as possible.
Who are we?
We are a leading youth homelessness charity based in the Southwest, working with over 1,500 young people. At 1625ip we are driven by Social Justice and Passion: we strive to do something that matters and take pride in seeing the results of our work in social outcomes and improving young people’s lives.
What you will be doing
- Helping run Heritage film making workshops.
- Use content from Heritage research to create an exciting documentary.
- Take responsibility to either produce the film, offer technical support or assistant direct the film.
- Work as part of a creative team to deliver engaging training and activity which supports young people to share ideas, learn new skills and develop creative content.
- Support Young People’s involvement as participants and ensure their voices are heard.
- Help the Heritage team at 1625ip share the stories of Kingsley Hall.
You will be in the Heritage Team, which sits within our Routes Team and your manager will be The Senior Heritage Activities Coordinator.
At 1625ip we are led by our Competency Development Framework. This connects our values to our behaviours in everything we do and gives us the tools to develop. The framework ensures our recruitment is better informed, applications and interviews are behaviourally based and job profiles are developed on the ‘how’ of a job.
No prior experience? No problem! We believe in your potential and are committed to providing training and support to help you thrive. If you have transferrable skills and you are interested in this role, but you are worried about the application process, please get in touch with us.
We encourage you to have an informal chat with the recruiting manager to discuss how your personal or professional experience and skills could be transferred to this role. Details of how you can do that are further down in this advert.
Contract details
- Hours per week: 22.5 (this represents 60%- 3 days a week)
- Contract type: Fixed Term for 6 months
- Pay: £24,294 per annum (£14,576.40 pro rata)
- The location: You will be based in central Bristol, close to Bristol’s main train and bus stations as well as the vibrant city centre.
A few benefits
In return for your dedication we offer:
- A generous annual leave entitlement of 30 days per annum plus all Bank Holidays
- Employee Health Cash Plan with HSF
- A supportive and approachable team with an emphasis on colleague wellbeing
- “1625 Independent People is an amazing organisation and I feel very lucky to work here”, Colleague Wellbeing Survey 2024.
- “I couldn’t be happier with the opportunities and support I have received in my career progression that has led me to my dream job!” See what other colleagues have said about their career development with us, on the vacancy page of our website.
- 1625ip is a Disability Confident Employer.
Important dates
- Application deadline closes: 23:59, Monday 16 June 2025 or before if we have received sufficient applications.
- If you have not heard from us by the end of the day on Wednesday 18 June 2025, please assume that your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.
- Interviews are on Monday 23 June 2025.
Application information
Ready to see yourself in this rewarding role? We can’t wait to hear from you.
- You will be asked to answer 5 questions at the end of the Word application form. These are required to ensure your application can be shortlisted.
- Please note the online e-application form cannot be saved so we recommend you prepare your Word application form before you start filling in the e-form.
- Please get in touch with us if a hard copy of the application form would be preferred. We will organise a time for you to collect it from and return it to Kingsley Hall (our main office in Old Market). An online application will then be created for you.
Equitable opportunities for everyone
We believe those with a criminal record should have an equal chance to become employees or volunteers and encourage applications.
As an organisation who safeguard and promote the safety and welfare of children, young people and adults at risk, any job offer will depend on a satisfactory DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) check. Successful candidates will need to provide our organisation with sufficient documentation to prove ID.
We comply fully with the DBS code of practice and undertake to treat all applications for positions fairly. For successful candidates with a criminal record, a risk assessment process will take place with the recruiting manager.
We also pride ourselves on being an equitable opportunities employer for everyone regardless of age, disability, gender identity, race, religion and beliefs, sex and sexual orientation. We have committed to being a Disability Confident Employer, and have made the Menopause Workplace, Mental Health at Work, and Bristol Equality Charter pledges.
