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Our People Are At The Heart Of Everything We Do

We are proud of our dedicated and talented employees and we work together as a team to make a difference to the lives of our students and the communities we serve. ‘Transforming education, transforming lives’ is our mission. If you would like to join us on this journey and make a difference too, then we would love to hear from you.

About UWTSD

We welcome your interest in working with us and hope that the information below will provide you with an overview of life at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. 

Valuing our People

We are a living wage employer. Our strong focus on the professional development and wellbeing of our staff ensures that we provide the best support to our students, colleagues, industry partners and wider networks.

Our employees get access to a comprehensive pay and benefits package in recognition of their valued contribution including:

  • Competitive pay and pay progression
  • Generous annual leave allowance including Christmas/New Year closure
  • Pension scheme membership from USS to provide benefits for you and your family
  • Access to a benefits and wellbeing platform, with a choice of benefits to suit your needs, including electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme and financial wellbeing services
  • Support for health and wellbeing, including access to on-campus sports facilities at discounted rates, occupational health, and counselling support services
  • Career and development opportunities, including support to gain further qualifications
  • Family-friendly policies that provide for flexible working, including enhanced paid maternity and paternity leave
  • Travel schemes, including the cycle to work scheme.

Developing our People

We recognise the important role that learning and development plays in supporting our people to achieve success and to thrive at work. To help our people work effectively within a transformed workplace and to enable them to progress through the different stages of their careers, we have development frameworks in place to support key themes such as, learning and teaching, leadership and management and digital skills.

Our development programmes provide opportunities for our people to connect with colleagues, be coached or mentored, gain professional accreditations and recognition, and to work on projects that have organisational impacts. Our annual teaching and learning conference NEXUS, enables colleagues and partners to come together within our learning and teaching community to share best practice, communicate, collaborate, and inspire each other.

Equality and Diversity

We care about our students and staff. We foster a culture where staff and students work together in partnership and provide an inclusive, supportive, and safe learning environment where all can flourish and are able to fulfil their personal potential. Our vision is to create a culture of openness and respect in which barriers for those with protected characteristics are identified and removed. We welcome and encourage applicants from all sections of the community regardless of their backgrounds. If you work with us, you will become part of our UWTSD family.

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Disability Confident

University of Wales Trinity Saint David is committed to improving employment opportunities and career development for disabled people and in recognition of this UWTSD has been certified as a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. The University is committed to ensuring that our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible, communicating and promoting all vacancies and offering an interview to applicants with a disability who meet the essential criteria for the post.

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Living Wage Employer

We are committed to paying the Living Wage for all employees at the University and are certified as a Living Wage Employer by the Living Wage Foundation.

The real Living Wage is the only UK wage rate that is voluntarily paid by almost 10,000 UK businesses who believe their staff deserve a wage which meets everyday needs.

Flexible working

We promote a flexible workforce and the University will consider applications from individuals seeking full time, part time, job share, or term time only working arrangements and this will apply to all posts that we advertise.

Gender Equality

University of Wales Trinity Saint David is committed to fairness and transparency in relation to its pay arrangements for staff and publishes data in line with the gender pay gap reporting guidelines, although it is not a legal requirement in Wales. 

The University also has an active women’s network that share information and support to female staff or those individuals that identify as female, that have registered their interest to join. They have an active Teams site where they share information and stories of inspiring females.

Welsh Language

We have a proud tradition as a bilingual institution, committed to the Welsh Language and you are welcome to apply for any job in Welsh or English and all applications submitted will be treated equally.

Ensure you checkout our Welsh medium site, especially if you wish to apply in the Welsh language and where Welsh language is deemed essential to the role. Whilst having Welsh language skills has not been deemed an essential criteria for all roles based in Wales, it would be expected that the successful candidate would have an appreciation and understanding of the bilingual nature of the University and willing to learn and use basic greetings.

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Race Equality Charter

University of Wales Trinity Saint David is one of over 100 institutions to become a member of the Race Equality Charter (REC), part of Advance HE. Nationally recognised, the charter promotes the representation, progress and success of Black, Asian and minority ethnic staff and students in the Higher Education sector.

We recognise that racial inequalities continue to exist within society and in the HE sector as a whole. Our UWTSD Race Equality Plan was written collaboratively with student and staff representatives in 2021 and outlines our commitment to taking a strategic approach to making cultural and systemic changes that will make a real difference to our minority ethnic staff and students.

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Stonewall Diversity Champions

UWTSD is working hard to create an inclusive University for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, and Queer + (LGBTQ+) staff, to provide a safe, open, supportive and relaxed environment and inclusive culture in teaching and learning through continuous improvement and engagement. 

We are proud to be a Stonewall Diversity Champion and aim to embed LGBTQ+ inclusion at the heart of the University through our LGBTQ+ staff network and our work with Stonewall and other education providers.

Rights, Data and Contact Information

Right to Work in the UK

For jobs that are academic, research or highly specialist, the University may be able to obtain Skilled Worker sponsorship. For all other jobs, we will not be able to consider your application if you are not eligible to work in the UK. If you have any queries please contact our HR team

For further information please visit the UK Government Website.

Your Data

As part of any recruitment process, UWTSD collects and processes personal data relating to job applicants. Please refer to the Job Applicant Privacy Notice for more information on how we manage and protect your data.

Contact us

If you would like more information about any of our vacancies, please email our jobs team and a member of the HR team will get back to you.