Trainee Lecturer - Counselling in Kettering

Location: Kettering

Salary: Salary from £26,651 to £31,982 per annum (Pro-Rata) DOE and Qualifications, Teacher’s pension, Retail and Leisure Discounts, excellent professional and personal development opportunities, accessing college courses.

Hours/Weeks: 12.58 hours per week

Contract Type: Permanent - Part Time

About The Role: We are currently seeking a Trainee Lecturer in Counselling to join our Care, Childcare and Counselling department at The Bedford College Group.

• Qualifications: Relevant qualification in subject specialism, Level 5 teaching qualification (e.g., PGCE/Cert Ed/Diploma in Education and Training) or willingness to work towards one.
• Experience: Teaching and counselling experience, able to teach up to level 4, extensive experience as a counsellor.
• Skills: Excellent communication, organizational, interpersonal, prioritization, classroom management, numeracy, and IT skills; ability to handle sensitive data confidentially.
• Attributes: Ability to work alone and in a team, adapt to changing workload demands, meet deadlines, build professional relationships, attention to detail, work in line with College values, policies, and procedures.
• Flexibility: Ability to travel to all campus locations, adapt working hours, and maintain professional boundaries with children and young people.

About You:

• Qualifications / Training: Relevant qualification in subject specialism (one level above the level to be taught), Level 5 teaching qualification (e.g., PGCE/Cert Ed/Diploma in Education and Training) or willingness to work towards one, current safeguarding training, equality and diversity training.
• Knowledge / Experience: Excellent knowledge and understanding of teaching counselling, recent experience of teaching counselling, extensive experience as a counsellor, able to teach up to level 4, experience of embedding innovation best practices.
• Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication, organizational, interpersonal, prioritization, classroom management, numeracy, IT skills (Microsoft Office), mentoring teaching colleagues, experience with Moodle or similar platforms.
• Attributes: Ability to handle sensitive data confidentially, work alone and in a team, adapt to changing workload demands, meet deadlines, build professional relationships, attention to detail, work in line with College values, policies, and procedures.

Additional Requirements: Ability to travel to all campus locations, adapt working hours, maintain professional boundaries with children and young people.

Successful candidates must also be able to demonstrate alignment to our organisational VISION values:

• Valuing Teamwork: We are one team who by working together can achieve great things, respecting the opinion and valuing the contribution each of us makes.
• Improving Continuously: We challenge ourselves to always do better by trying new things, sharing knowledge, reflecting on practice and learning from others.
• Student Centred: At our heart is always doing what is best for our students. We consider students in all of our decision making to create positive outcomes and memorable experiences for every student.
• Inclusive: We celebrate differences and diversity, recognising that we can learn from each other.
• Open and Caring: We care about the wellbeing of our staff, our students, our community and wider society, creating an environment built on trust where we listen, engage with and support each other.
• Nurturing Education Excellence: We promote educational excellence by delivering programmes that challenge our students to achieve their ambitions.

About Bedford College: Bedford College has a number of sites across the town and surrounding areas, these include our main Cauldwell Street campus in the heart of the town, our hair and beauty salon on the High Street, the advanced automotive centre on Brunel Road and the gas and technology plumbing centre in Kempston.

About The Bedford College Group: The Bedford College Group was formed in 2017 following the merger of Bedford College and Tresham College and is now the largest provider of education in the South East Midlands, with over 15,000 students passing through our doors each year.

Today, the Group is made up of a family of colleges across Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire: Bedford College, Central Bedfordshire College and Tresham College in the towns of Bedford, Dunstable, Leighton Buzzard, Corby, Kettering and Wellingborough; Shuttleworth College, a specialist land-based college; The Bedford Sixth Form, (the only dedicated sixth form in Bedford); The Corby Sixth Form, (opened in September 2023); and the National College for Motorsport alongside Silverstone race circuit. To widen accessibility to education and training, the Group also has community-based Learning Centres in Bedford, Corby and Kettering which offer IT training.

Safeguarding our Students: The Bedford College Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to thorough vetting process which includes, an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory references. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975, provides information about which convictions must be declared during job applications and related exceptions and further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide. The Bedford College Group's policy on Employment of Ex-Offenders is attached to this vacancy. Candidates who are barred from working with children are reminded it is a criminal offence to apply for this post.