Mechanical Engineering Apprenticeship Instructor/Mentor
Mechanical Engineering Apprenticeship Instructor/Mentor
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About The University
We have one simple promise – to make a positive impact. Through our ground-breaking research, teaching excellence and commitment to sustainable living, we are changing lives for the better.
About The University
We have one simple promise – to make a positive impact. Through our ground-breaking research, teaching excellence and commitment to sustainable living, we are changing lives for the better.
The University of Derby is a modern university with a modern outlook. Everything we do is driven by delivering excellence and opportunities for our students, our staff and our region.
We have some of the best university facilities in the UK and achieve outstanding results for our teaching and research and have been awarded Gold in the prestigious Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) 2023 – making it one of the top universities in the country recognised for its outstanding student experience and student outcomes.
Financially strong and seriously ambitious we offer our employees an inclusive culture that centres itself around staff wellbeing, where you can be confident you will receive all the help and encouragement you need to build a rewarding career with lots of opportunities to enhance your skills.
About The College/Department
The Nuclear Skills Academy is the first of its kind and aims to sustain nuclear capability within the UK’s submarines programme by creating a dedicated pipeline of talent at the start of their careers. Based in Derby at the iHub, the Nuclear Skills Academy is a partnership between the University of Derby and Rolls-Royce. The Nuclear Skills Academy team draws upon it's multidisciplinary and award winning skills to facilitate the delivery of apprentices across Levels 2-6.
About The Role
Instructor Mentors play a pivotal role in the apprenticeship journey. They are at the front line, delivering sessions, assessing, and carrying out reviews to ensure apprentices develop the skills, knowledge, and behaviours needed to thrive. In this role, you will deliver high-quality teaching and learning in Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, with a particular focus on advanced manufacturing techniques, precision machining, quality control, and continuous improvement.
Working with HNC/HND-level apprentices, you will design and deliver engaging, industry-relevant training that prepares learners for both their job role and successful End-Point Assessment. You will make full use of the state-of-the-art facilities at the Nuclear Skills Academy, collaborating with employers and colleagues to provide a seamless and impactful apprenticeship experience.
Interview Date: 24th September 2025 (On-Site)
About You
You’ll be at the front line, delivering sessions, assessing, and carrying out reviews. You’ll have an eye for academic excellence, hands-on industry experience, and engaging teaching practice, whilst being a team player who contributes to the onward journey at the Nuclear Skills Academy. The apprentice will be at the centre of your efforts, ensuring that you are embedding values and behaviours with them from day one, utilising the space and resources available to best effect.
You will value interdisciplinary collaboration, industry engagement, and be keen to work with stakeholders to deliver an outstanding experience. Ideally, you will have experience and qualifications in Assessing and Verifying, or the willingness to undertake these qualifications, along with strong technical knowledge in CNC operations, milling, turning, grinding, and inspection processes. Your blend of practical expertise and commitment to teaching excellence will help shape the next generation of engineering professionals.
Principal accountabilities
* To plan and deliver practical, technical vocational and associated theoretical learning activities for apprentices including training, support for learning and assessment using a variety of methods both on and off the job.
* Prepare suitable learning materials for a range of activities to develop the students’ knowledge, skills and behaviours linked to relevant apprenticeship standards or frameworks.
* Demonstrate tasks and processes to individuals and groups.
* Provide instruction to the specified standards and provide feedback to students on progress through written and online methods, coaching for high expectations of progress and attainment.
* Provide individual and group mentoring for apprentices to ensure that apprenticeship candidates are selected appropriately and are matched to the needs of the employer.
* Supervise groups of apprentices undertaking knowledge and skill acquisition through scheduled off the job learning activities, project work or while on work placement.
* Assess knowledge and skills acquisition using a variety of assessment methods including individual coaching techniques to accelerate the learning of knowledge, skills and behaviours.
* Provide specific learning support to apprentices as required and ensure that learning support records are kept up to date.
* Work with groups of apprentices or individuals to prepare them for external qualification and end-point assessment according to the requirements of the relevant apprenticeship.
* Complete all associated internal, employer and external documentation and track the students’ progress, including recording apprentice data on attendance and achievement using prescribed records systems, both manual and online.
* Ensure that any assessment carried out is completed to the standards laid down by the awarding body and the College Quality Assurance systems.
* Integrate the development of English and Mathematics skills, including their integration into broader learning activities linked to both on and off the job activities.
* Monitor attendance of apprentices at prescribed off the job learning activities, ensuring that records systems are updated as required and employers are kept informed.
* Ensure that apprentices are coached to behave in a professional manner at all times to a high standard of safety in the workplace and during off the job activities.
* Work with liaison and business development teams and independently to develop new business opportunities to increase employer engagement and apprentice uptake and progression.
* To undertake any other duties which may, from time to time, reasonably be required within the general level of responsibility.
* To comply with the requirements of Safeguarding Children and Vulnerable Adults, Prevent, Health and Safety, Quality and other University policies including Equal Opportunities, Risk Management and Equality and Diversity.
* Achieve personal and team targets for recruitment, progress, completion and achievement or apprentices within designated durations.
* To take an active role in the mentoring and progress of apprentices, providing a liaison between the apprentice, their employer and the off the job training provider.
* Take an active part in the College and University’s Staff Development Programmes.
* Take an active role, when required, in all curriculum management activities, including open days, recruitment events and external moderation activities.
* To understand and comply with the University’s Equality and Diversity Policy.
* To comply with copyright, software licensing legislation and related University procedures.
* To ensure that the College’s quality assurance procedures are adhered to and additional action taken where necessary.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential Criteria
* Hold or be willing to undertake a Level 5 Teaching Qualification
* Level 2 qualifications (either in functional skills or GCSE A-C/4-9) in both English and Maths, or a willingness to achieve within an agreed timescale
* Relevant Mechanical/Manufacturing Engineering vocational qualification at Level 3 and Level 4 (or higher)
Experience
* Practical industry experience in a manufacturing, machining, or precision engineering
* Experience of working with apprentices, delivering, coaching, and assessing against apprenticeship standards
Skills, Knowledge & Abilities
* Technical knowledge of CNC operations, milling, turning, grinding, and inspection processes.
* Demonstrable evidence of ability to engage with learners to support high quality learning outcomes
* Highly developed communication skills
* Ability to use own initiative
* Ability to work effectively on your own and with a small team
* Well-developed administrative and organisational skills
* Ability to work flexibly within a team
* Good time management skills
Business Requirements
* A commitment to the principle of widening participation
* A commitment to continued professional development
* A commitment to College and University values and behaviours
* A willingness to work across College sites and externally
* Willingness and flexibility to travel and work between University and external sites in a cost effective and timely manner
* Ability to work evenings, weekends and during holiday periods
* Completed DBS check with child barred list
* Prohibited from Teaching check
Benefits
* Generous annual leave entitlement of 47 days inclusive of bank holidays and concessionary days (pro rata)
* Teacher’s Pension Scheme
* Suite of holistic wellbeing benefits and support including family-friendly policies, generous sick pay provision and comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme
* Access to a variety of staff discounts at high street retailers
* Discounted onsite gym
* Cycle to Work scheme
* A flexible working environment
* A commitment to personal and professional development
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Key contact
For further information and informal enquiries regarding the role, please contact Paul White, Curriculum Leader for Nuclear Skills Academy via p.white3@derby.ac.uk
For enquiries regarding your application and for sponsorship eligibility, please contact the recruitment team via recruitment@derby.ac.uk.
Important information
Visa Sponsorship Eligibility
The University is unable to sponsor the employment of international workers under the Skilled Worker route for this role; however, applications are welcome from candidates who are able to demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.
Please visit visit our website for more information.
DBS check
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974 and is therefore subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.
Any information you provide will be treated in confidence and only used when considering your suitability for the post.
To enable us to process your DBS check please ensure you are able to supply the documentation listed on the DBS website at interview stage.
Equity, diversity and inclusion
The University of Derby is committed to promoting equity, diversity and inclusion, regardless of age, disability, trans status, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief (or none), sex and sexual orientation.
We are Disability Confident Employers, demonstrating our commitment to disability inclusion, and invite applicants to highlight adjustments they may require to ensure equitable participation in our recruitment processes.
Further, we are committed to ensuring an environment which is trans and non-binary-inclusive for all our staff, students, partners, and visitors, and continuously review our policies, guidance and training.
When applying to join the University, you can choose your preferred title, including the gender-neutral title 'Mx'. We also ask our candidates if they would like to share their preferred pronouns. This is voluntary but demonstrates our commitment to inclusivity for trans and non-binary candidates. Once employed, you can add pronouns and preferred names onto our system.
The University of Derby undertakes anonymised shortlisting during the staff recruitment process. This means that, when shortlisting, panel members will not be able to see an applicant’s name and will see an applicant number instead. This demonstrates the practical steps we are taking to remove barriers to recruitment by minimising the possible impact of our unconscious bias.
However you identify, we actively celebrate the knowledge, experience and talents each person brings. Our students come from a wide range of backgrounds; therefore we are particularly interested to hear from applicants who will help our leaders and teams be more reflective of our student population.
For more information on equity, diversity and inclusion at the University of Derby, please visit our website.
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