I'm a mum — The Women's Work Lab

Join our mums

We recognise the unique challenges of returning to work. We’ve created a supportive and dynamic environment for career development that builds your confidence and empowers you on your journey to professional success. Whatever that looks like for you.

Within our proven skills-based training programme, you can explore various opportunities and access valuable resources, including work placements, classroom-based training, personalised 1-2-1 career guidance and mentoring.

By joining our vibrant hive of ambitious and talented women, our community will support your progress along your individual career path; helping you to thrive in work and family life.

With dedication and us at your side, you can create a financially secure future where you and your family will flourish.

Our powerful programme is created for mothers by mothers with their own successful careers.

We don’t mind what qualifications you have either (although showing us you have an interest in developing yourself is great!). Experience of using computers for things like emailing and writing documents is an advantage but not essential.

If you have children younger than school age you are welcome to apply but will need to have childcare organised for both the training and the work placement (your work coach can help with this via the Flexible Support Fund).

FROM HIVE TO HIRED

“I have finally found a job I love!”

Read amazing stories from recent graduates

Hear from one of our mums

Course details

Our programmes involve part-time classroom based training and work placements all during school hours. We focus on building your confidence, looking in depth at your strengths, values, and personality preferences. We then ask you to consider what your future could look like, how you are going to get there and what you need to do to make it happen.

You can expect:

• Bespoke 121 career coaching

• Sessions with external partners such as Google & Smartworks

• Practical career support - CV writing/interview technique/job searching

• A work placement -example employers include Burges Salmon, Sirona Healthcare, DAS Group, Wessex Water, University of Bristol & Bath, North Bristol NHS Trust, Buro Happold and the Citizens Advice Bureau.

Current Programmes

Applications are currently open for our January 2025 programmes in Bristol, South Glos and Taunton plus our Bristol specialist schools programmes in February 2025. All Mums on this programme will have the opportunity to work in school with both classroom and admin based roles available.

Apply now

Applications for our January 2025 cohorts in Bristol, South Glos and Taunton are open plus our specialist schools programme (Bristol based). Our programmes are open to mums (19yrs+) who are looking to find meaningful work. You will need to be in receipt of a state benefit and live in one of the areas currently covered by our funders (Bristol, South Glos, B&NES & Somerset). If you have any questions about eligibility, please contact Sarafina on sarafina@womensworklab.co.uk.

Please fill in the application in as much detail as possible and tell us why you would like to join the Women’s Work Lab. Remember what’s important to us is not what you’ve been doing up until now, but the fact that you are ambitious to make a change, open to new ideas and have a willingness to learn. We will be in touch shortly afterwards to let you know if you have been shortlisted for an informal telephone interview for a place.

If you would like to know more then contact our Programme Managers - Paige (for South Glos), Sophia (for Bristol) & Fern (for Somerset)

Name

First Name

Last Name

Contact number

Address

Which Program are you applying for?

How old are your children?

Can you tell us about your education and qualifications

Do you have Maths GCSE Grade C/4?

Do you have English GCSE Grade C/4?

Can you tell us about your current level of IT skills

Can you tell us about your work experience to date

Can you tell us about any volunteering you have done

Are you currently unemployed?

Are you currently receiving Universal Credit?

If no can you tell us about what benefits you are receiving

Tell us a bit about your time out of work. What were you doing, how long have you been unemployed, what has led you to look to return now?

Do you have an idea of what type of role you are looking for? What is your ultimate goal? What would success look like in a year’s time?

How do you think Women’s Work Lab can help you?

How did you hear about the Women's Work Lab?

Do you have a disability, learning difficulty and/or health problem you would like us to be aware of? If so, please tell us about any access requirements.

If relevant, are you currently a tenant/customer of a housing association?

As a social enterprise, this simply relates to where we get our funding from

Please check this box to confirm that you are happy for us to share your details with carefully vetted third parties such as employer partners, Housing Associations and the Job Centre. We may need to do this in order to provide ongoing support to you, you can opt-out at anytime.

I agree