About the role
Join our growing Automotive department as an experienced Automotive Lecturer and play a key role in delivering exceptional Engineering education to full-time learners and apprentices. You’ll inspire and guide students, ensuring an outstanding learning experience that drives positive achievement outcomes.
In this role, you’ll also take on a variety of administrative and development tasks aimed at enhancing standards, achievements, and the overall learner experience.
Key Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities:
- Teach Engineering Subjects: Deliver high-quality lessons to Level 1-3 full-time students and apprentices, and Level 4-5 part-time students, ensuring success targets are met.
- Monitor Learner Progress: Regularly review attendance and progress, following up to ensure students are on track to meet their targets.
- Assess and Support Students: Conduct initial/diagnostic assessments, provide tailored support, and create differentiated learning strategies to help students reach their goals.
- Provide Assessments & Feedback: Develop relevant assignments, assess student work (formative and summative), and give timely, constructive feedback.
- Maintain Quality Systems: Design lesson plans, assessment activities, and ensure the quality of engineering teaching through curriculum planning and tracking.
- Document & Track Progress: Keep electronic records up-to-date, including learner progress and ILPs on ProMonitor.
- Engage in Quality Improvement: Attend curriculum meetings and contribute to the continuous improvement of course materials and student outcomes.
- Develop Teaching Resources: Create and update resources (including e-resources) to support engineering skill development.
- Embrace Technology: Incorporate new teaching, learning, and assessment technologies to enhance the student experience.
Skills, knowledge and expertise
Qualifications and training- Teaching qualification, e.g. Cert Ed, PGCE or DTLLs, or a firm commitment to achieve a Diploma in Education and Training (DET)
- Relevant Vocational Qualification at Level 3 (Motor Vehicle) (e.g. NVQ Level 3/Level 3 Work-based Diploma)
- Strong occupational history and competence within the Automotive sector with extensive and in-depth knowledge
- Ability to deliver high quality teaching in a variety of Automotive subject areas.
- Assessment/Assessing/Assessor Qualifications (A1, TAQA, CAVA)
- Level 2 qualification (GCSE A* – C, or equivalent) in maths and English or a willingness to attain these qualifications with the support of the College
Skills and expertise- Knowledge/experience of IMI qualifications
- To be an inspiring teacher, enthusiastic with the ability to motivate students and a willingness and ability to tackle poor student performance.
How to Apply
We look forward to receiving your application and knowing more about your qualifications, skills, personal qualities and experience that you would bring to the role and to Telford College. Please take time to review the job description.
Please complete the online application form with details of your full employment history (since leaving school, including education, employment and voluntary work) including reasons for any gaps in employment. This should also include a statement of the personal qualities and experience you believe are relevant to your suitability for the post and how this meets the job description and person specification requirements. Your application form will be re-produced in a standard format by the system (without personal identifiers) to assist us in our anonymised shortlisting process.
Under Section 7 of SVGA 2006 it is an offence to apply for the role if the applicant is barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. . Under KCSIE (keeping children safe in education) guidance the college is committed to all pre-employment safeguarding checks, including online checks and candidate history. Therefore, please note upon clicking to apply you agree for these checks to be completed.
