Plumbing Lecturer

Description:

About Our Client

Our clients overall mission is to unleash potential; creating better futures for their learners, businesses and communities. They strive for excellence in being able to support and deliver inspirational learning and excellence through career focused education and their staff are integral to making this happen!

Our client are constantly investing in their people and facilities to ensure they are delivering an outstanding experience for those who learn from them. £50m has been invested in their spaces and facilities over the last 8 years, and the £15m East London Institute of Technology is at the forefront of technical education.

Main Duties

* Teach and assess on one or more of the courses delivered, or serviced, by the curriculum area and contribute to the development of existing and new, innovative provision, including the implementation of motivational, flexible and blended learning and cost effective teaching and learning styles.

* Complete the administrative work associated with teaching efficiently and effectively, including timely completion of registers (which are auditable documents and a requirement by law), lesson planning documentation, schemes and records of work, E ILPs, learner tracking and monitoring documentation and various forms of learner progression sheets.

* Develop and implement learner centred , learner assessment strategies in accordance with policies (which place learners at the centre and emphasise the significance of constructive and developmental feedback for successful learning).

* Awarding Body assessment requirements must also be followed rigidly.

* Adopt a consistent and constructive approach in dealing with learner discipline in accordance with the learner support and disciplinary policy.

* Adopt procedures and practices to create safe working environments and enforce any health and safety standards in the area of work, ensuring all learners understand and comply.

* Ensure that equipment and materials are treated with respect by classes for which they are responsible and that laboratories, computing rooms and other teaching areas are left clean and tidy

* Keep abreast of developments in their specialist field/subject area, especially in the theory and practice of education and the latest industry/sector training requirements/ standards

* Participate fully in staff learning and development activities, including teaching, learning and assessment practices, lesson observation and peer reviews, motivational dialogue as part of coaching/tutoring for learners, and undertake training or re training and the acquire essential qualifications

* Undertake personal coaching / tutorial and pastoral responsibilities for designated learners in order to support learners in their own development and their future progression.

* Be an active course team member and participate fully in meetings, career conventions, staff learning and development training sessions, conferences, seminars, open evenings and learner assessment/progression evenings, in addition to teaching and administrative responsibilities.

* Keep up to date with Quality improvement and enhancement initiatives and be aware of, and meet, service standards for the curriculum area. For success rates, the aspiration is to acquire a minimum of 80% success rate for Long and All qualifications.

* Work flexibly, which may include evening and weekend work. Evening work may be teaching or evening duty.

Personal Specification

Education / Training

* Have a relevant qualification in the subject area to the course to be delivered

* Possess a teaching qualification or be prepared to undertake a further education teaching qualification

* Possess an assessor qualification

* Possess an Internal Quality Assurance qualification or be prepared to undertake.

Experience

* Have recent and relevant experience of teaching subject to learners from Entry Level to Level 3 with knowledge of Plumbing & Heating also Gas pathway

* Evidence of recent teaching and assessment practical issues in delivering subject programme

* Be prepared to undertake CPD activities as required.

Skills and Abilities

* Ability to deliver excellent teaching, learning and assessment pedagogic practice

* Be able to deliver a variety of pedagogic strategies to suit a variety of learning styles

* Have the ability and interest to contribute to learner enrichment activities

* Possess excellent interpersonal and team development skills and have the ability to contribute to the team and its goals. Be able to work independently and as a member of the team

* Be well organised, reliable and punctual

* Possess good IT and administrative skills and be able to keep accurate tracking records of learners’ progress, keep an up to date schemes and records of work.

Benefits

A competitive salary including London Weighting

Generous holiday and pension packages

Being part of a team passionate about education and success

Links with industry and CPD opportunities

Free parking, travel to work and technology assistance schemes.

Paul Feldman is the National Skills Agency Data Protection Officer. Your data will be stored until notice is given by you for it to be removed. Our Data Protection Policy will be forwarded to you on request. As we get a high number of applications we may be unable to give feedback to unsuccessful candidates. We will retain your details to keep you informed of other opportunities. National Skills Agency Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy and is an Equal Opportunities employer we welcome applicants from all backgrounds