Bikes maintenance tutor

Job Description

Job Title: Bicycle Maintenance & Repair Tutor / Instructor

Location: Staffordshire area

Salary: From £30,000 per annum

Contract: Permanent, Full-Time

The Opportunity

Are you a skilled bike mechanic, cycle technician, or hands-on engineer looking to step away from the commercial workshop and make a genuine social impact? Or an experienced trainer looking for a unique, highly rewarding environment?

We are recruiting for an enthusiastic Bikes Maintenance Tutor to join a leading training and education provider within a secure youth custodial setting. In this role, you will deliver practical, competency-based cycle mechanics and repair training programmes up to Level 2. Your knowledge will give young learners real-world trade skills, teamwork experience, and the practical qualifications they need to secure a stable career path upon release.

What You Will Be Doing

• Practical Training: Plan and organise engaging cycle mechanics courses up to Level 2, teaching everything from basic servicing and diagnostics to complex bike repairs.
• Progress Tracking: Assess learner progress, maintain accurate records, and contribute to Individual Learning Plans (ILPs) to support each learner's personal goals.
• Integrated Learning: Work collaboratively with Functional Skills Tutors and support staff to embed essential literacy, numeracy, and employability skills naturally into workshop projects.
• Workshop Safety: Maintain a clean, structured, and safe workshop environment, instilling excellent health and safety habits in your learners.
• Quality Assurance: Ensure all course delivery meets standard awarding body criteria, assisting with internal quality assurance (IQA) and compliance tracking.

What We Are Looking For

• Industry Experience: A minimum of 2 years' practical experience in cycle mechanics, bicycle repair, engineering, or a closely related vocational trade.
• Subject Knowledge: Strong, comprehensive knowledge of bicycle components, tools, diagnostic techniques, and servicing standards.
• No Teaching or Assessing Qualifications? No Problem! If you have the trade expertise, our client will fully fund, support, and guide you to achieve your teaching qualification (AET/PTLLS) within 6 months, your Assessor Award within 12 months, and any specific accredited delivery awards within 2 years.
• Core Skills: Excellent communication skills, strong organisational abilities, and a real passion for mentoring young people from diverse backgrounds.

Please note: Due to the secure nature of this environment, the successful candidate must be able to obtain and maintain an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and clear standard security clearances.

Why Apply?

This is a rare opportunity to turn your passion for cycling and mechanics into a stable, structured career with regular daytime hours, a collaborative team, and no weekend retail shifts. Our client is a Gold-accredited 'Investors in People' organisation, meaning your professional development, qualification funding, and career progression are fully backed and supported from day one.

Important Notice

Dovetail and Slate is a specialist education recruitment company. If this role isn't quite right, we welcome your CV and a call to explore other opportunities.

We are committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults. All appointments are subject to satisfactory vetting, including a right to work check and, where relevant, an enhanced DBS, PVG (Scotland), or EWC (Wales) check, in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education.

Dovetail and Slate Ltd (11351060) acts as an Employment Agency and an Employment Business under the Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003.

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Because education matters.

Dovetail and Slate Limited.

Because education matters. Dovetail and Slate Limited (11351060) acts as an Employment Agency.