Lecturer Motor Vehicle

The purpose of the post: The ideal candidate should have strong, recent, practical experience in the motor vehicle trade, with a good record of health and safety. The candidate will develop the colleges Green Agenda in this area of work. We currently teach a range of courses, including an important focus on lower-level courses and 14-16 year old students on school link courses.

The main duties and responsibilities are to:

Teaching

1. Assist the Curriculum and Quality Team Manager in the development of student centred teaching/learning strategies and deliver high quality teaching and learning.
2. Advise and assist the Curriculum and Quality Team Manager with regard to course development and modification.
3. Negotiate targets for performance with the Curriculum and Quality Team Manager and ensure that agreed action is taken to ensure continuing improvement to the quality of the provision.
4. Liaise with other lecturers and other appropriate staff regarding matters of assessment, student progress, work placements and other organisational matters.
5. Ensure that reports relating to students progress are prepared for employers, parents or sponsors as appropriate.
6. Report to and consult with the Curriculum and Quality Team Manager to ensure that agreed practices are consistently followed, particularly in respect of all review, evaluation and planning activities, including team meetings.
7. Prepare students references for employment, Further and Higher Education.
8. Ensure students are entered for appropriate examinations.
9. Arrange for students to receive advice regarding careers and further educational opportunities from Careers Advisory staff.

General

1. Promote and support equality of opportunity in all aspects of the post, and undertake training where necessary, in accordance with the agreed equal opportunities policy.
2. Promote a positive image of the college in all contact with students, employers and professional bodies.
3. Adhere and comply with the college financial regulations.
4. Contribute a mutually supportive approach to the achievements of the mission and strategic objectives of the college.
5. Participate in relevant promotional and marketing events.
6. Liaise with appropriate student support agencies within the college, e.g. college counsellors, nurses, student liaison officer.
7. Liaise as required with relevant external agencies.
8. Undertake additional duties at enrolment times as required, including evening work.
9. Carry out such other related duties as may be required by Curriculum and Quality Team Manager/Director.

Person Specification

Please study the items in this person specification carefully and when completing your application form try to describe your knowledge, skills and experience in terms of those particular items:

1. Possess a qualification relevant to the Motor Vehiclearea.
2. Have relevant experience in Motor Vehicle or a related area.
3. Qualification/experience in low carbon transport.
4. Experience of maintaining and servicing electric vehicles.
5. Show commitment to and be able to provide evidence of continuous professional development and demonstrate its impact on teaching and learning.
6. Possess appropriate IT skills relevant to the post, or be willing to undertake training.
7. Have a teaching qualification or be willing to obtain one within an agreed timescale.
8. Have knowledge of health and safety and how it applies to students learning.
9. Have sound understanding of relevant craft techniques and how they could be communicated to students.
10. Have experience of teaching in further education.
11. Possess assessor A and V awards or be committed to attaining these awards, where necessary
12. Possess good communication skills.
13. Be able to work to deadlines.
14. Be able to work as part of a team.
15. Have an awareness and understanding of equal opportunities
16. Have an awareness and understanding of Safeguarding, Prevent and how to embed these into the curriculum

Equality and diversity

West Thames College champions excellence, integrity, equality and respect.

This means we aspire to the highest achievements for our students and the best possible working environment for our staff.

The whole college community - women and men, younger and older, from different , social and ethnic backgrounds, a variety of faiths, cultures and languages, lesbian, gay and straight, disabled and non-disabled we are all treated with the same respect and entitled to the same chances to succeed.

We champion diversity because we know that a rich mix of people makes the college a more productive and creative place to study and work.

And we champion equality because it is the right thing to do.

Conditions of Service

Contract:Permanent

Full time

Pension:Staff are entitled to participate in the Teachers Superannuation Scheme subject to its terms and conditions.

Annual Leave:47 days per annum plus public holidays. In the interests of efficiency, the Corporation may decide to close for up to 5 days in each year.

Teaching

Qualifications:Lecturing staff are required either to have upon commencement of employment, or to obtain within a specified period after commencement the qualifications required for the post.

The type of qualification required and the time period for acquiring it, depend upon a number of factors, including the type of post that is held, the teaching that is undertaken, and whether the Individual works full-time or part-time.

Optional:By negotiation additional hours of up to 6 hours per week teaching evening classes may be available

Probation:Employees who commence their employment between 1 September and 31 May inclusive will be subject to 26 weeks probation before their employment can be confirmed as permanent.

Employees, who commence their employment between 1 June and 31 August, and those with term time only contracts, will be subject to 36 weeks probation period before their employment can be confirmed as permanent.

The extended period of probation is ensure that there is an adequate period of normal working during which to provide support and assess an employees performance.

DisclosureThe post will be offered subject to an enhanced Disclosure satisfactory to West Thames College which will be conducted by the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Additional information for teaching applicants

WestThamesCollege is committed to striving towards being an outstanding college.

As part of our commitment we offer our staff an entitlement to strong and supportive line management along with staff development opportunities and we provide 3 dedicated Development Days per year for specific staff training.

IT Skills

To enable us to meet our target of being outstanding we require that our teaching staff have a minimum level of IT skills:

ability to use email

understanding of WORD

understanding of EXCEL

ability to research via the internet

ability to undertake basic IT trouble shooting

Literacy Skills

In accordance with the Life Long Learning UK regulations teaching staff are required to possess specific levels of literacy skills.

You will be required to provide evidence that you possess literacy skills at Level 2 which is equivalent to GCSE English, grade C or above.If you are unable to provide this evidence you will be required to complete a skills test to assess your literacy skills.

The assessment consists of 40 questions and the pass mark is 30.The assessment can last up to one hour.

Induction

We offer support and guidance to all new staff via our induction process.To identify the training needs and support required for new staff our selection process for lecturers will consist of the following:

1.A formal panel interview where you will be assessed against the person specification criteria.

2.A micro teach.You will be given a topic on which to prepare a micro teach and will be required to present this to a panel.If the topic is given on the day you will be given preparation time.

Training needs identified at interview will form part of your individual Induction training plan.

If you do not possess the minimum requirement upon entry into the organisation your manager will identify your needs via the Induction or Probation process and you will be enrolled onto an in-house course to ensure you meet the standards required to undertake your role.

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