Ready for a Change? Use Your Skills to Transform a Child s Life Specialist Therapeutic Foster Carer Bedford and Surrounding Areas Location: Bedford and surrounding areas Salary: £62,000 per year (plus additional allowances) Employment Type: Full-time Self-employed To foster in the UK, you must meet all of the following requirements: Be 21 years of age or over Have a spare, dedicated bedroom in your home Have experience supporting children, young people, or vulnerable adults (professionally or personally) Be a British citizen or hold Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR) in the UK Important Visa Status We are unable to accept applications from individuals who hold: EU Settled or Pre-Settled Status Graduate visas Skilled Worker visas Student visas Health & Care Worker visas Spouse Visa Any other temporary or time-limited visa Fostering requires permanent residency status in the UK. If you do not meet all of the above criteria, please do not...

Ready for a Change? Use Your Skills to Transform a Child's Life Specialist Therapeutic Foster Carer - Bedford and Surrounding Areas Location: Bedford and surrounding areas Salary: £62,000 per year (plus additional allowances) Employment Type: Full-time Self-employed To foster in the UK, you must meet all of the following requirements: Be 21 years of age or over Have a spare, dedicated bedroom in your home Have experience supporting children, young people, or vulnerable adults (professionally or personally) Be a British citizen or hold Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR) in the UK Important - Visa Status We are unable to accept applications from individuals who hold: EU Settled or Pre-Settled Status Graduate visas Skilled Worker visas Student visas Health & Care Worker visas Spouse Visa Any other temporary or time-limited visa Is it Time to Use Your Skills Differently? Every child deserves to feel safe, valued, and part of a family. Right now, young...

Manual Handler/Warehouse Operatives Ridgmont 12.37 - 13.98ph We are looking for a reliable Manual Handler to support daily operations in our manufacturing warehouse at Ridgmont location - Bedford Lift, move, and pack components and finished items Assist with loading and unloading deliveries Organise materials within the warehouse and production areas Support manufacturing teams with general manual tasks Requirements: Ability to lift and handle heavy items safely Basic understanding of warehouse operations Previous warehouse or manufacturing experience (preferred) START ASAP Hours - 6am - 3pm and 2pm - 11pm. Mon - Friday How to Apply: If you have the above skills and wish to be considered for this position or find out more details then please contact Insha Khursheed on (phone number removed) or submit your CV to Insha.Khursheed (url removed) alternatively, apply to this advert! Why work with Proactive? Proactive Global...

Chef & Nutrition Coach When registering to this job board you will be redirected to the online application form. Please ensure that this is completed in full in order that your application can be reviewed. Job Title: Chef & Nutrition Coach Location: Bedford, This service does not have full step free access. Salary: 26,000 (full time equivalent) Shift Pattern: 22.5 hours per week, Monday to Sunday Shifts flexible around meal preparation 5 days per week including weekends. Hours may vary dependent on service and resident requirements. About the Role We have an exciting opportunity for a Chef & Nutrition Coach to join our brand new service opening in April 2026! As a Chef & Nutrition Coach in the service, you will improve their dietary habits, optimise health, personalised as well as creating meals for our diverse and marginalised residents as they seek recovery. You will need to understand ordering and budgeting as well as a strong understanding of...

Science Teacher Secondary School Location: Bedford Start Date: After Easter Contract: Full-time Coba Education is working closely with a secondary school in Bedford to recruit a qualified Science Teacher for a full-time position , starting after Easter . This is a fantastic opportunity for a passionate and committed teacher to join a supportive school and deliver high-quality Science teaching across the secondary age range. The role: Full-time teaching position within a secondary school Science department Teaching Science across Key Stages 3 and 4 (KS5 desirable but not essential) Planning and delivering engaging lessons in line with the National Curriculum Marking, assessing, and tracking pupil progress Contributing positively to the wider school community The successful candidate must: Hold Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) essential Have experience teaching Science in a UK secondary school Be confident teaching Biology, Chemistry,...

Warehouse Operatives/Manual Handlers Required Ridgmont - Start ASAP (Early and Late Shifts Available 6.00am-2.00pm / 2.00pm-10.00pm) Key Responsibilities: Moving of stock Reporting to warehouse manager Document control - Update and maintain all inbound and outbound records Participate in cycle counts and manage stock queries Identify stock that is in the wrong location and escalate as required ensure stock levels are controlled throughout the operation Picking and wrapping Key Skills/Experience: Previous warehousing experience preferably Strong numeracy skills Attention to detail Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal Positive attitude Able to work in a fast-paced environment Ability to work as a member of a small team Able to start work ASAP Additional Info Hours: 8.30am-4.30pm Monday to Friday Start date: ASAP Proactive Global is committed to equality in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer. Proactive Global is...

Role Overview: Join Our Team at Busy Bees – Leading Nursery Group in the UK As an Early Years Educator, you will play a leading role in fostering the intellectual, social, and emotional development of children at Busy Bees. Join a company that values high-quality education and provides ample growth opportunities. About Us Busy Bees is the UK's leading nursery group, with nearly 400 nurseries across the UK and more overseas. We are dedicated to giving every child the best start in life and are proud to have won awards for our workplace culture. At Busy Bees, we ensure that every member of our team feels heard, valued, and nurtured.   Busy Bees Benefits Competitive salary Ongoing professional development and career progression Our ‘Hive’ benefits and wellbeing hub, with discounts across a huge range of retailers Up to 28 days holiday per year (including bank holidays) Your birthday off – it’s our gift to you! 50% childcare discount Enhanced family leave and return...

Cover Supervisor - Specialist Girls' Provision (SEMH / SEND) Role: Cover Supervisor Key Stage: KS3 / KS4 Start Date: April 2026 Location: Bedfordshire Are you confident leading a classroom, steady in challenging situations, and motivated by the opportunity to support young women with complex needs? Do you want a role where your presence, patience and consistency truly matter? Aspire People are partnering with a specialist provision in Bedfordshire that supports young women who are currently unable to access mainstream education due to social, emotional and mental health needs. Many students have experienced significant adversity and benefit from a calm, structured setting where trust is built gradually and progress is personalised. As a Cover Supervisor, you will provide stability and continuity across the school day, delivering pre-set lessons, supporting learning, and helping students feel safe, respected and understood. Class sizes are small (up to 10 pupils), allowing you to...

Role Overview: Join Our Team at Busy Bees – Leading Nursery Group in the UK As a Senior Room Leader at Busy Bees, you will oversee multiple rooms and ensure that educational strategies are seamlessly integrated across the centre. This is a leadership role where you will inspire your team to achieve the highest standards of care and learning. About Us Busy Bees is the UK's leading nursery group, with nearly 400 nurseries across the UK and more overseas. We are dedicated to giving every child the best start in life and are proud to have won awards for our workplace culture. At Busy Bees, we ensure that every member of our team feels heard, valued, and nurtured.   Busy Bees Benefits Competitive salary Ongoing professional development and career progression Our ‘Hive’ benefits and wellbeing hub, with discounts across a huge range of retailers Up to 28 days holiday per year (including bank holidays) Your birthday off – it’s our gift to you! 50% childcare discount...

Role Overview: Join Our Team at Busy Bees – Leading Nursery Group in the UK About Us Busy Bees is the UK's leading nursery group, with nearly 400 nurseries across the UK and more overseas. We are dedicated to giving every child the best start in life and are proud to have won awards for our workplace culture. At Busy Bees, we ensure that every member of our team feels heard, valued, and nurtured. Why Work at Busy Bees? We offer a supportive environment that empowers you to create engaging, educational spaces where children can thrive. As part of our team, you’ll be introduced to our unique Bee Curious curriculum, designed to foster curiosity and confidence in young learners. Our Charitable Commitment Through our partnership with BBC Children in Need, we offer fantastic opportunities for community involvement and fundraising to support children's lives. About our Nursery  Join Busy Bees at our Bedford Elstow nursery, rated Good by Ofsted with a capacity for 112...

Personal Wellbeing Team Leader Location: Bedfordshire Salary: £27,992 Vacancy Type: Permanent Advertising End Date: 27 Mar 2026 Ready to lead with purpose? Join the Personal Wellbeing Service as part of the CRS Probation system and make a tangible difference to the lives of adult male prison leavers and individuals on community orders. This is a full-time (35 hours per week) position working across the Bedfordshire region as part of a multi-disciplinary team. As Team Leader, you ll guide practitioners delivering tailored interventions across Family & Significant Others, Lifestyle & Associates, Emotional Wellbeing, and Social Inclusion, helping people build safer, more stable futures. Leadership, quality and collaboration sit at the heart of this role, alongside clear accountability for performance, governance and service excellence. What You ll Be Doing Lead, motivate and develop a team of practitioners delivering personal wellbeing...

Domestic Abuse Support Worker Location: Butterfly House, Bedford Salary: £16,380 Vacancy Type: Permanent, Part Time (25 hours per week) Closing Date: 26 March, 2026 Bedford Women s Refuge, Butterfly House, is a safe haven for women and their children, fleeing domestic abuse. This new provision accommodates up to 10 women, either with or without dependent children with a safe and stable place for them to live, whilst accessing therapeutic recovery support. As a Domestic Abuse Support Worker at Butterfly House, you ll manage a caseload of customers who have complex needs, through their journey with Stonewater s supported housing service, ensuring a strengths based, trauma informed approach that enables them to realise their potential. You ll work closely with key partners, delivering quality, outcome focused coaching support sessions in one-to-one and group settings, providing both emotional and practical support. This will include sessions on keeping safe, healthy...

As our National Sales Manager, you will be leading a team of three Account Managers delivering c£15m of revenue. You ll be a coach, a mentor and client facing. Splitting your time between head office and client meetings, you ll be a commercially driven individual with a proven track record in the aerospace and defence sector. BASIC SALARY: £65,000 - £75,000 BENEFITS: Up to 10,000 - £15,000 Annual Bonus Car Allowance £6,500pa 25 Days Holiday Company quarterly incentive plan c£2,600 per annum 3 x Life Assurance, 5% Pension Contribution LOCATION: Office based 60% of the time (plus client meetings / WFH) Milton Keynes COMMUTABLE LOCATIONS: Northampton, Bedford, Cambridge, Luton, Huntingdon, Leighton Buzzard, Stevenage, St Neots JOB DESCRIPTION: National Sales Manager contract electronics This National Sales Manager role is a strategic leadership role where you will be the driving force behind key relationships with some of the most respected names in UK...

HGV Driver - Class 2 Bedford (MK42) Base salary: £38,767 per annum Regional Allowance: £3,764 per annum Meal allowance: £1035 per annum Annual earnings: £43,566 + overtime Marshalls is a market leader in the manufacturing and supply of superior natural stone and innovative concrete hard landscaping products, supplying the construction, home improvement and landscape markets. Our Marshalls mission is ‘Creating Better Spaces’; we’ve held a Superbrand status since 2010, and we’re a successful FTSE 250. Every step we take, every product we make, is geared towards making the world around us a better place to live. We're recruiting for a Class 2 Driver to join the team at our Bedford site. The vehicles you will be driving are all 4-axle 32t rigid trucks, which are POD, Auger Tipper and Mixer trucks, the fleet all have automatic gearboxes. This is a great opportunity to become a pivotal part of Marshalls Mortars and Screeds to deliver not only one of the UK’s leading products but...

Role Overview: Join Our Team at Busy Bees – Leading Nursery Group in the UK As a Room Leader at Busy Bees, you will oversee multiple rooms and ensure that educational strategies are seamlessly integrated across the centre. This is a leadership role where you will inspire your team to achieve the highest standards of care and learning. About Us Busy Bees is the UK's leading nursery group, with nearly 400 nurseries across the UK and more overseas. We are dedicated to giving every child the best start in life and are proud to have won awards for our workplace culture. At Busy Bees, we ensure that every member of our team feels heard, valued, and nurtured. Why Work at Busy Bees? We offer a supportive environment that empowers you to create engaging, educational spaces where children can thrive. As part of our team, you’ll be introduced to our unique Bee Curious curriculum, designed to foster curiosity and confidence in young learners. Our Charitable Commitment Through...

Due to continued growth, we are looking to recruit an experienced Tyre Technician to join our Aftersales Team at Mercedes-Benz of Bedford. Mercedes-Benz of Bedford is part of the prestigious Sytner Group, the UK's leading luxury automotive retailer. We pride ourselves on delivering an exceptional customer experience, through world-class facilities, industry-leading standards, and a passionate team who share our drive for excellence. This is an excellent opportunity to become part of a professional, high-performing dealership where precision, quality, and customer satisfaction are at the heart of everything we do. About the Role As a Tyre Technician, you'll play a key role in ensuring every Mercedes-Benz vehicle leaving our site meets the highest possible safety and quality standards. You'll be responsible for inspecting, repairing, and replacing tyres on both customer and stock vehicles. You'll also support wider elements of our vehicle preparation process when required,...

Senior Legal Cashier Location: Bedford - Office Based & Hybrid Job Type: Full-time, Monday to Friday 9:00am - 5:30pm About the Role We are looking for an experienced Senior Legal Cashier to join our client's finance team in Bedford. This is a key role responsible for day-to-day legal cashiering duties, ensuring full compliance with the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Accounts Rules. You will manage complex financial postings with accuracy and efficiency, and provide essential cover for telegraphic transfers (T/Ts) and Payroll when required. Key Responsibilities Daily Cashiering Duties: Post receipts, payments, transfers, and disbursements to client and office ledgers; manage banking processes; monitor ledger balances and resolve queries; process refunds, write-offs, and adjustments. Financial Compliance: Ensure all transactions comply with SRA Accounts Rules; support internal audits and external accountant reports; maintain accurate accounting records with strong...

1. Passport 2. BRP and Right to Work 3. National Insurance (NI) 4. Enhanced DBS (Should be on updated service) 5. Training Certificates Practical moving and handling First Aid Health and Safety Infection Control Safeguarding Adults Dementia Food Hygiene Fire Safety Learning Disability Awareness Challenging Behaviour Mental Health Awareness Manual Moving and Handling (Practical) 6. Your Photo (For Profile) 7. Next of Kin name and Number 8. Bank Statement 9. COS Letter / Term Date (Skilled Worker / Student)

Are you a commercially driven Technical Sales specialist with exposure to the utilities markets, specifically water metering and monitoring solutions? We partner with some of the biggest players in the utilities sector and we need to add to our sales team due to ongoing company growth. BASIC SALARY: £50,000 - £55,000 BENEFITS: Bonus Car Allowance Pension Life assurance 25 Days Holiday & Public Holidays LOCATION: An office / home based role. Our office in Central Bedfordshire, but you will need to be in the field as required. COMMUTABLE LOCATIONS: Milton Keynes, Bedford, Watford, Luton, Stevenage, Northampton, Aylesbury JOB DESCRIPTION: Technical Sales Executive, Business Development Manager - Meters, Monitoring Solutions, Water Reporting directly to the UK Managing Director, you'll join our UK Sales and Service team, working closely with global colleagues to deliver best-in-class solutions. This is a great opportunity for someone seeking to...

Are you a Sales Manager looking to grow your career with a market leading company providing temperature monitoring solutions to a wide range of sectors including Aerospace, Automotive and Food, or are you looking to develop an international sales career? Based in the UK you will have occasional travel (up to 3 months a year, usually 2 weeks per trip to the US). BASIC SALARY: £50,000 to £60,000 BENEFITS: Uncappped Bonus, paid Quarterly 25 Days Holiday & Bank Holidays Company Pension Scheme LOCATION: East Midlands / East Anglia COMMUTABLE LOCATIONS: Cambridge, Peterborough, Northampton, Welwyn Garden City, Stevenage, Lincoln, Nottingham, Leicester JOB DESCRIPTION: Sales Manager, Sales Engineer, Technical Sales, International Sales Temperature Monitoring, Technical Solutions As our Sales Manager, you ll be responsible for driving business growth to agreed targets, working with existing representatives while also developing new business opportunities. You ll...