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Salary:£25,646 (Pro-rata: £10,258.40)
Reference No: SR2065
Location: Cross Campus
Hours:14.8 hours per week, 52 weeks per year
Contract: Permanent
Duties and Responsibilities
- Deliver and support engaging learning experiences across lessons, workshops, and group sessions.
- Champion project-based learning, helping students build practical and career-relevant skills.
- Support academic progress by helping students set and monitor targets, compile evidence for assessment, and engage actively in their own learning.
- Prepare and maintain learning environments, ensuring resources and materials are available, functional, and fit for purpose.
- Collaborate with academic staff, employers, and support teams to ensure the highest standards are met across the curriculum.
You will also play a key role in helping students prepare for employment or further study, ensuring sessions reflect industry expectations and fostering strong connections with local employers.
Job Requirements
Essential:
- A-level qualification in a relevant subject.
- Strong ICT skills and a high standard of literacy and numeracy.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to motivate, support, and connect with young people.
- High levels of initiative, time management, and attention to detail.
- A collaborative, flexible, and reflective approach to supporting learning.
Desirable:
- A degree in a relevant subject area.
- Teaching qualification (e.g., PGCE).
- Relevant industry/professional experience.
- Experience working in further education or employer-engaged learning.
- Participation in curriculum development or leadership responsibilities
The right candidate will have:
- High standards of communication and interpersonal skills.
- The ability to work as a team.
- A strong attention to detail.
- The ability to work towards deadlines.
- The ability to motivate both students and your peers.
- Highly motivated and enthusiastic.
- Excellent attendance and punctuality.
- Experience innovating to deliver the curriculum
Why choose us?
Our strategy is to create a Career Focused, Digital Learning environment, ensuring that the learner experience and our relationship within our community, local and regional employers, are at the heart of everything we do. We are proud to be selected as finalists for the AoC Beacon awards for effective use of digital Technology in FE. Providing a high achieving, focused learning environment allowing our students to achieve the grades they need for higher educations, or the skills and aptitude required to secure a suitable role in their chosen career. Our college is set in the leafy suburbs of Essex, with easy access to surrounding areas and amenities, we are based in a well-connected location both by road and rail.
What we offer:
- A dedicated and friendly team of professionals who are keen to develop and learn
- Excellent pension provision
- Annual Staff Awards
- CPD days - opportunities to grow and development through mentorship and coaching
- Free onsite parking
- Staff appreciation days
- Eye care vouchers
- Onsite Starbucks & Restaurant
- Well-being days & activities
- Electric Vehicle Scheme*
- Discounted gym membership
- Hybrid Working available
- Fully immersive teaching rooms allow simultaneous online teaching at multiple locations
- Free Employee Assistance Programme available 24/7, 365 days offering legal & financial advice, as well as general support & guidance
* subject to terms & conditions