Instructor

Details

**Job Title: Instructor**
**Location: NCC, East, South Scotland**
**Grade: 4**
**Salary Range: £31,575 - £40,745**

CITB aims to lead the construction sector by example to ensure fairness, inclusion and respect for all. We seek to develop an organisation which reflects Britain’s diverse population and our main objective is to create a culture that enables our customers to strive towards an organisational community that is reflective of today’s society.

**Role Purpose**:
Reporting to the programme Manager, the Instructor is part of the training and delivery team and is responsible for the presentation, updating and development of courses at the College that are, suitable for meeting the training needs of the Industry.

**Key responsibilities and accountabilities**:

- Deliver training to a high standard to achieve course objectives, both practical and theory, keeping within the timings of the courses.
- Ensuring that course material, equipment, training aids including technology and documentation is available to meet the objectives of all courses.
- Updating and development of course material, including training aids, lesson plans and timetables in line with NCC’s customer’s requirements.
- Carryout Industry recognised training and assessments on trainees in accordance and compliance to scheme rules.
- Promote and maintain a safe learning environment, ensuring that whilst the delivery of programmes is conducted a high standard of health and safety, confidentiality, safeguarding and equality and diversity are maintained at all times.
- Complete and maintain all trainees' course reports, assessment forms, and other relevant documentation and fully utilise our eLearning platform, as required by awarding bodies and NCC quality procedures.
- Consistently demonstrate our CITB behaviours whist being a role model for students and challenge inappropriate behaviour in a professional manner in line with NCC’s policies and procedures.
- Complete all mandatory training as prescribed for your role and undertake any additional requirements for plant equipment categories needed to support training courses’.
- ‘Perform your work duties in accordance with the CITB behaviours and challenge inappropriate behaviour of learners not adhering to the college rules’.

**Key contacts and relationships**:
**Internal**:

- Identify improvements/innovations with delivery to be supported with involvement of relevant stakeholders.
- Correct equipment usage and safe operation of required equipment.
- Ensure that any equipment. machinery/vehicles being used are serviced and inspected in accordance with appropriate legislation and in line with NCC’s policies and procedures.
- Identify any potential efficiencies.
- The role requires a combination of following Instructions and own initiative adhering to policies and procedures and provide continuous supervision of learners.
- Communicate with apprentices, college staff on a wide range of issues including progress reviews and safeguarding.
- Communicate with senior instructors on a wide range of issues including progress reviews, related support for apprentices, disciplinary and safeguarding issues.
- Communicate and supervision of learner/learners during assessments, inductions and training.

**External**:

- Work with relevant stakeholders to help develop new courses and products.
- Demonstrate and relay an in depth understanding of the specific curriculum area when involved with trade shows and careers events.
- Represent the College in a positive manner with all learners attending courses.

**Knowledge and Experience**:
**As an experienced operative in your chosen field all required training in Health and Safety, Teaching and Occupational disciplines will be provided by NCC.**

**Essential**
- Strong written and oral communication skills (prepared to attend training and achieve Level 2 Numeracy and Literacy).
- Sound proven knowledge of current industry practices and experience/ability in construction skills relevant to position applied for in one off the following areas; Construction, Access, Health and Safety or Plant.
- Must be prepared to work towards and achieve relevant teaching qualification to at least level 3 (achieved within an agreed timescale) and progress to level 4 within the relevant time frame.
- Prepared to work toward and achieve relevant qualifications that support the vocational area of the curriculum (achieved within an agreed timescale)
- Hold a relevant Health and Safety qualification (SMSTS /IOSH training will be given).
- Attend 'disarm from within' course within 12 months
- An understanding of and commitment to Safeguarding and equality and diversity (training will be given).
- First Aid at Work Certificate (complete within 6 months).
- Health and Safety qualifications / training relevant to the specific role, training will be provided within 6 months.

**Desirable**
- Possession of Assessor units would be advantageous (training will be