Essential Skills Lecturer

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**Essential Skills Lecturer**
**Bircham Newton**
**Grade D: £36,803 - £43,363**

CITB are recruiting Do you have a passion for training? Does working with a highly motivated training team appeal to you?

We are looking to recruit a Lecturer in Essential Skills for our training delivery arm; The National Construction College which is situated in Bircham Newton near King’s Lynn. (Norfolk).

As a Lecturer you will support the Curriculum Manager, ensuring the team deliver innovative and engaging training. The team delivers English, maths and IT to apprentices but also support the curriculum teams in their development by assessing and working with them to achieve levels of Essential Skills required for their role but also embedding this within their own curriculum training for learners.

Your day-to-day activities will include planning, preparing and monitoring learner progression and achievement to ensure NCC continues to deliver outstanding training, whilst the role consists of the duties listed above you may on occasion be required to train and assess our colleagues in the training teams.

If you have gained experience and think you have the skills and ability to lead our Essential Skills provision in qualifying the next generation of construction workers and upskilling the existing workforce, then why not apply.

Our team take a great deal of pride in what they do and get a great deal of satisfaction providing employers and employees with world class skills and training. Our network of Construction colleges delivers a large percentage of specialist construction training in the UK.

With a 35-hour week and occasional travel with overnight stays, we offer a generous renumeration package and benefits, and most of all we will invest in you through training and personal development.

**Key responsibilities and accountabilities
- Leading on embedding Ofsted’s education inspection framework into the vocational training delivery to ensure that course objectives are achieved and meet ESFA requirements, both practical and theoretical, in line with Grade 1 outstanding teaching and learning.
- Ensure that course delivery material, equipment, training aids, Schedule It and documentation is continually reviewed and updated to ensure delivery requirements are meeting current guidelines.
- Produce management information and reports for their area such as progress data for Essential Skills and learners with additional learning Needs or Additional Learning Support requirements.
- Collaborate with the Senior Instructor to help develop Instructional staff (and other relevant colleagues) and apprentice Instructors /Teaching Assistants.
- Act as a lead for maintaining and developing NCC’s eLearning portfolio enabling all trainees' course reports, assessment forms, and other relevant documentation is accurately captured, as required by awarding bodies and NCC quality procedures via One File.
- Play an integral role in Supporting the Colleges continuous quality improvement plan, for the teaching and learning process and in line with Ofsted requirements. Ensuring that a standardised approach is adopted throughout the Colleges.
- Support the Curriculum area in ensuring that numeracy and literacy is fully embedded into apprenticeship programs and the delivery of literacy and numeracy programmes to learners and provision of continuing support to achievement.
- Ensure all relevant accreditation visits are maintained and lead awarding body audits and reaccreditation visits to ensure the College retains its accreditation and direct award status.
- Deliver teaching, assessment and IQA qualifications to colleagues as appropriate.

**Knowledge and Experience**

**Essential**
- Hold a relevant teaching qualification at level 5
- Experience specialising in the teaching of literacy and numeracy
- Hold a mentoring and or coaching qualification or be willing to work toward it.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills Level 2 Numeracy and Literacy.
- Proven ability to motivate, enthuse and develop positive attitudes in learners and support them to overcome barriers to learning and progression.
- Motivated, well organised, and efficient.
- Assessor qualifications (or willing to work toward that).

**Desirable**
- Hold a relevant management or supervisory qualification.
- Deliver training across multiple Curriculum areas.
- Advanced qualifications and experience to be able to deliver teacher training quals.
- Evidence of attendance of Safeguarding Training.

**Special Conditions/Other Requirements:
- Full UK driving licence
- Must be prepared to travel and work at other locations with occasional overnight stays.
- Must have DBS / Disclosure Scotland

**Benefits/Allowances**
- 25 days holiday per year (+ 8 bank/public holidays). Increases with service completed.
- Flexible benefits including buying/selling holidays, cycle to work and insurance
- Pension scheme
- Employee discounts
- Long service awards
- CITB recognition sc