Team Leader

**Role**: Team Leader - Teaching Assistants

**Location**:Central Bedfordshire College - Dunstable Kingsway Campus

**Salary/Benefits**: Salary is between £28,325 and £33,231 per annum (Pro-Rata) DOE and Qualifications, People’s pension, Retail and Leisure Discounts, excellent professional and personal development opportunities, accessing college courses.

**Hours/Weeks**:37 hours per week - 40 weeks per year

**Contract Type**: Permanent - Term Time

**About the role**:
We are currently seeking a Teaching Assistant Team Leader to join our Additional Support department at The Bedford College Group**.**

As a Team Leader, you play an important role in the success of our students through:

- **Team Leadership & Management** - Line manages Teaching Assistants across college, conducting appraisals, probation reviews, mentoring, interviews, and regular 1:1s to support performance and development.
- ** Strategic Deployment & Support** - Coordinates TA deployment to meet student needs through effective timetabling, matching, and utilisation within funding limits, ensuring quality support and promoting student independence.
- ** Operational Oversight** - Manages classroom and lunch cover, tracks support hours, facilitates EHCP review attendance, and steps in during extreme absence to maintain continuity of support.
- ** Collaboration & Communication** - Works closely with curriculum, pastoral, and behavioural leads to share information, develop training programmes, and align TA roles with classroom expectations.
- ** Compliance & Development** - Upholds safeguarding, EDI, and health & safety standards; engages in ongoing training and development; and contributes to college-wide activities and meetings.

**About you**:

- **Qualifications & Experience** - Holds Level 2 English and Maths, a Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management, with recent experience supporting individuals in education and managing large teams across multiple sites.
- ** Specialist Knowledge & Skills** - Experienced in working with students with diverse learning needs and abilities across vocational contexts, with strong administrative skills and budget prioritisation capabilities
- ** Professional Competencies** - Demonstrates excellent communication, teamwork, record-keeping, and organisational skills, with the ability to meet deadlines, work independently, and maintain high job performance.
- ** Values & Attitudes** - Committed to equality, safeguarding, and promoting the college’s reputation, with a sensitive and respectful approach to individual needs and professional relationships.
- ** Flexibility & Development** - Willing to work across sites, adapt to changing work patterns, travel as needed, and engage in ongoing professional development to support student welfare and success.

For a more detailed breakdown of the job role and the requirements, please see the Job Description attached to this vacancy.

**Interviews to be held**:11 September 2025
- **Valuing Teamwork**:

- We are one team who by working together can achieve great things, respecting the opinion and valuing the contribution each of us makes.
- ** Improving Continuously** - We challenge ourselves to always do better by trying new things, sharing knowledge, reflecting on practice and learning from others.
- ** Student Centred** - At our heart is always doing what is best for our students. We consider students in all of our decision making to create positive outcomes and memorable experiences for every student.
- ** Inclusive** - We celebrate differences and diversity, recognising that we can learn from each other.
- ** Open and Caring** - We care about the wellbeing of our staff, our students, our community and wider society, creating an environment built on trust where we listen, engage with and support each other.
- ** Nurturing Education Excellence** - We promote educational excellence by delivering programmes that challenge our students to achieve their ambitions.

**About The Bedford College Group**
The Bedford College Group was formed in 2017 following the merger of Bedford College and Tresham College and is now the largest provider of education in the South East Midlands, with over 15,000 students passing through our doors each year.

Today, the Group is made up of a family of colleges across Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire: Bedford College, Central Bedfordshire College and Tresham College in the towns of Bedford, Dunstable, Leighton Buzzard, Corby, Kettering and Wellingborough; Shuttleworth College, a specialist land-based college; The Bedford Sixth Form, (the only dedicated sixth form in Bedford); The Corby Sixth Form, (opened in September 2023); and the National College for Motorsport alongside Silverstone race circuit. To widen accessibility to education and training, the Group also has community-based Learning Centres in Bedford, Corby and Kettering which offer IT training.

**Safeguarding our Students