Construction Lecturer

Southern Education Recruitment (SER) are currently supporting a College in Tonbridge with their Construction Lecturer cover need. Please read below for more details on the role:

Where you’ll work: On site at the college’s Tonbridge Campus

Hours and duration: Currently in need of cover full-time 5 days per week until end of the academic year.

Your pay: £163.47 (£25.15 pr hr)

Essential skills and knowledge required in at least one but desirable in all following trades: Plumbing, Carpentry, Electrics

Qualifications or experience requirements: A teaching qualification would be desirable but not essential. Experience within the Construction industry and having supported apprenticeships/ training up of new workers essential. We are looking for someone with the confidence and know how to be able to teach young people the skills of your trade in order to gain a qualification and opportunities to work in their chosen field.

About the organisation:

Based in Tonbridge, the college are a small campus part of a national not-for-profit business group providing an alternative and special education, delivering full and part time provision in Primary, Secondary and College settings for young people with barriers to education or to whom mainstream education is not suitable.

Their programmes and services aim to:

* support and engage young people who display a wide range of complex barriers to education, including those who are excluded or at risk of exclusion and those with Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) needs or Special Educational Needs,

* help young people to prepare for and support transition and re-engagement back into either mainstream education or employment and training, and

* improve academic attainment, behaviour, self-confidence and self-esteem, enabling young people to realise their full potential.

Their Approach:

The organisation specialises in offering learning and training opportunities for young people outside of a traditional academic environment. They provide their students with a different option – the opportunity to carry on their learning in a smaller, highly supportive environment where the focus is on providing learning and training options to help learners gain the skills, qualifications and experiences needed to achieve your goals in life.

Programmes can be tailored to each learner’s individual needs, education and employment goals, with tutors working with young people to design a tailored learning programme that is matched to their interests and goals. These learning options can include literacy and numeracy skills, work experience, and vocational qualifications, alongside personal and social development, and behaviour, attendance and attainment support.

If you are interested in this role, please send your CV over. All candidates will be subject to the necessary vetting and background checks. Relevant qualifications and experience will be highly beneficial, yet it will be your ability to build relationships and increase pupil attainment and sense of worth that will make you a success.

All candidates must:

* Be able to commit to working the hours specified above.

* Provide an enhanced DBS registered on the update service. If you do not hold a valid DBS be willing to apply for a new DBS. The cost of a DBS is a one-off payment of £48 with an annual subscription of £13 per year to the DBS Update Service.

* If you have been a UK resident for less than 5 years, a right to work visa must be provided and a criminal background check certificate must be provided for any country resided in for 6 months or more within the past 5 years.

* Provide all required documentation (ID, Qualifications)