About The Role
Your Skills, Their Success, Supporting the Community's Future - Join us as a Lecturer
As a Lecturer of Bricklaying for EKC Training, you’ll inspire the next generation of skilled tradespeople. You’ll teach, train and assess students across a variety of learning environments, ensuring every learner has the opportunity to succeed and reach their full potential.
This role is based at Eastchurch, Sheppey, where we deliver courses to Cat D prisoners as well as to community learners.
What you’ll be doing:
* Teaching and assessing Level 2 Bricklaying (practical and theory)
* Supporting learners to achieve their qualifications and career goals
* Designing, delivering and evaluating engaging programmes of study
* Encouraging and motivating students to develop confidence and employability skills
* Leading and contributing to designated study programmes and/or courses
* Delivering other multi-trade skills (desirable but not essential)
What we’re looking for:
* Strong knowledge and experience in Bricklaying
* Confident in delivering theory as well as practical sessions
* Organised, supportive and passionate about helping learners succeed
* Teaching experience is welcome, but not essential – training is provided
Why join us?
* Full support through our Teacher Academy with training, coaching and mentoring
* A chance to make a real difference in learners’ lives
* Development of digital skills and teaching confidence
* Opportunity to grow your career within a forward-thinking college group
If you’re passionate about sharing your trade knowledge and supporting learners to achieve their goals, we’d love to hear from you.
Alongside our priority of excellent student experience, we also focus on our employees. Here are just some of our benefits when working for the East Kent Colleges Group:
* Generous and Consistent Holiday Pattern - aligned with our academic calendar
* Teacher Training - we support new teachers with a £7000 investment in your training and coaching through our in-house Teaching Academy
* Flexible Personal Leave - Time off for your child\'s first day at nursery, school or college, moving homes and for interviews
* Exclusive Discounts & Perks - Discounts on restaurants, groceries, retail, holidays, car leasing and tech purchases
* Wellbeing and Health Support - Generous sick pay, counselling services, discounted gym membership, eye tests and glasses vouchers, flexible support for medical appointments and return-to-work transitions
* Competitive Pension Scheme - 28% company contribution
* Culture and Recognition - Community Days, Annual Staff Celebration Day and an eco-friendly organisation working toward net-zero by 2030
Ready to apply?
There is no need to spend time updating your CV—just click apply and complete our short application form. You can save your progress as you go, and we’ll review all applications and get back to all candidates after the closing date.
If you are interested in an informal chat about the role, or have any queries, please email us at jobs@ekcgroup.ac.uk
Salary notes - There are two salary scale points for our Lecturer positions. All candidates start at the introductory salary scale point unless criteria are met. Lecturers usually move to the higher scale after completing one full academic year of teaching. Internal applicants in the same role may qualify for the higher scale; seek clarification if needed.
About You
You will be a highly organised and creative educator, able to plan and deliver engaging lessons that inspire learners and help them reach their full potential. Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to assess, track and support student progress are essential to ensuring all learners succeed.
What we’re looking for:
* Ability to design and deliver innovative lessons that capture learners’ interest
* Strong skills in assessing, tracking and planning interventions to support progress
* A positive outlook and empathetic approach towards learners
* Confident classroom management skills to maintain a supportive learning environment
* Flexibility to teach a range of study programmes from Level 1 to Level 3
* Ability to motivate and inspire learners to achieve their goals
Desirable (but not essential):
* Teaching experience or experience delivering workplace training – full training and support will be provided for the successful applicant
Ready to apply?
There is no need to spend time updating your CV—just click apply and complete our short application form. You can save your progress as you go, and we’ll review all applications and get back to all candidates after the closing date.
About Us
Outstanding Ofsted Provider - East Kent Colleges Group is an Ofsted Outstanding rated provider. It is proud to be the first General Further Education college organisation in the country to have received the Outstanding grade against each of the strands under the new Ofsted inspection framework. An inclusive provider, our colleagues place our students and the communities we serve at the heart of everything they do across EKC Group and this is illustrated in our ‘Strong’ skills grading by Ofsted.
Commitment to Safeguarding - We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and we ensure that all staff are aware of their responsibilities for upholding these principles.
As a designated establishment, we are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore have an obligation to carry out checks to ensure that staff are suitable to work with children and vulnerable adults. These checks include conviction/caution self-declaration, Enhanced DBS check and obtaining sufficient referencing.
If you are shortlisted to interview, your suitability to work with children and vulnerable adults will be explored as part of the interview process.
Commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion - East Kent Colleges Group is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all members of our communities. We are particularly keen to increase the diversity of our staff body and encourage applications from candidates where there is underrepresentation in our workforce.
We are proud to hold the Positive About Disability Award and are a Disability Confident Employer. This confirms our commitment to interviewing all applicants who declare that they have a disability and who meet the essential criteria outlined in the person specification. We will explore reasonable adjustments to a role due to health needs or disability with any successful candidate.
Similarly, we have a commitment to Care Leavers (Care Covenant Pledge) and to current or previous Armed Forces personnel (Armed Forces Covenant Pledge) with a commitment to interview applicants who meet the positions essential criteria and who have declared this on their application.
We welcome applications from anyone wishing to work flexibly and those considering a return to work from a career break.
We do not engage with agencies for permanent staff and have an in-house recruitment team.
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