Salary: £40,000 - £45,000 depending on experience plus up to 10% bonus + car allowance
Working Location: Lichfield
Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent
Closing Date: 24th January 2025
*Known internally as Senior Trainer (Carpentry Apprenticeship)*
Important Information For Applicants Applying
Please note the planning process for our Hub project is managed by a third-party organisation, which may result in longer-than-expected timelines for interviews and offers. If additional changes arise, this could further delay the process.
Applicants should keep this in mind when applying for this opportunity and foresee potential delays. Expected start date is April 2025, subject to possible change.
Due to the nature of this role, a DBS check will be required and administered by NHBC.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Ensuring training is delivered in a time and cost-effective way.
- Co-ordination and delivery of customer apprenticeship training and/or assessment to achieve qualitative and quantitative targets.
- Liaising and consulting with customers, outside agencies and professional bodies to ensure apprenticeships, qualifications and training programmes meet their qualitative requirements and ensure quality assurance procedures are effectively maintained.
- Maintaining NHBC’s accreditations, including Ofsted, ESFA, and other awarding organisations, as appropriate.
- Supporting the collation and reporting of appropriate KPIs and feedback mechanisms.
- Ensuring apprentices progress and achievements are proactively maintained to ensure compliance with Ofsted & ESFA requirements as directed by compliance processes.
- Consulting with customers in the identification of learning needs and adapting learning to accommodate within our SEND policy
The ideal candidate will have
- Proven track record of providing excellent apprenticeship delivery to successful outcomes
- Suitable experience in the construction industry, particularly in the new-build housing sector at relevant trade level
- It would be advantageous to have timber frame, modular build, or interior fit out experience.
- Examples of where your intervention has provided a sound basis for continual improvement of trade practice.
- A clear understanding of and ability to interpret and engage audiences with the implementation of the NHBC standards.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and be able to negotiate/communicate effectively at all levels.
- Ability to influence & coach others, again at all levels.
- Ability to meet deadlines and coach others including apprentices to meet expectations
Education And Qualifications
- Full driving licence.
- Qualified teacher (or working towards)
- Minimum L.2 Site carpentry qualification
- English & maths qualification to the apprenticeship standard minimum, or above
- Working towards membership of appropriate professional institution. *NHBC will support, where able, progression to professional status and encourage participation in trade related organisations.
Why you should join us
At NHBC we are proud to be unique. No other organisation in our sector combines the variety of services and scale that we offer. As the market leader, our name is synonymous with new home warranty and insurance. Our people are driven by our core purpose to raise standards in housebuilding and protect homeowners.
We are a modern, lifestyle and family friendly employer who are in a period of rapid growth, investing in technology, data and new ways of working. We need passionate, talented and driven people to join us on this journey.
We encourage our colleagues to work flexibly. We don’t promise we can offer you exactly what you want, but we are always happy to talk
flexible working.
Your future with us
We have lots of fantastic examples across our business of people who are building their career with us. We are huge advocates of internal mobility and work hard to retain our best talent. We offer exceptional personal development and career progression opportunities. If you’re ambitious, driven and hard-working you will succeed with us. We’ll support you with full training, ongoing development, and the opportunity to gain recognised qualifications and professional memberships.
Our inclusive culture
We are committed to creating an inclusive culture that encourages everyone to bring their true selves to work. We fundamentally believe in the rights of all our employees and customers to be treated fairly, with dignity and respect, free from discrimination. We have active employee networks that support our colleagues and their allies, creating safe spaces for open conversations and the sharing of ideas.
If you need any adjustments or additional support with your application, please let us know at Recruitment@nhbc.co.uk
