Team Leader - Construction in Scunthorpe

DN Colleges Group is seeking an ambitious and motivated Team Leader to work in conjunction with the Curriculum Leader, managing the operations within our Construction Apprenticeship department, developing and delivering high-quality vocational training and outstanding apprentice achievement. In this pivotal role, you will contribute to the full apprentice journey—from enrolment through to End-Point Assessment—ensuring excellent progress, strong retention, and high-grade outcomes. You will manage and support a team of tutors and assessors, implementing timely interventions where needed, and work closely with employers to align on‑job and off‑job training for a seamless experience. Collaborating with the Curriculum Lead, you will ensure workshop delivery and curriculum plans are innovative, ambitious and that they meet the demands of today’s construction industry.

Key Responsibilities

• Team Management: Provide daily leadership to a team of vocational specialists, fostering a culture of high expectations and mutual support. Acting as deputy during Curriculum Leader absence. Supporting curriculum planning and delivery.
• Operational Oversight: Manage the logistics of the construction hubs, ensuring health and safety compliance, resource efficiency, and effective timetabling. For example, arranging class cover. Monitoring and coaching supervisees.
• Compliance & IQA: Lead the Internal Quality Assurance (IQA) process to ensure the department remains “Ofsted-ready” and fully compliant with DfE/DWP funding rules.
• Performance Reporting: Monitoring progress, attendance and achievement, ensure timely interventions. Use data-driven insights to monitor trends and report on achievement milestones to the Curriculum Leader. Represent the curriculum area at college meetings, working groups and events. Support recruitment, marketing and growth of apprenticeship provision.

Who We Are Looking For

• Qualified Expert: A Level 3 (or higher) vocational qualification in a Construction trade, alongside a recognised Teaching Qualification (PGCE/Cert Ed).
• Proven Leader: Experience in a supervisory or lead‑assessor role, with a demonstrable ability to motivate others and manage performance.
• Achievement Focused: A deep understanding of the Apprenticeship Standards and a track record of driving high achievement and retention rates.
• Collaborative Mindset: The ability to work effectively with the Curriculum Lead to translate educational strategy into high-quality practical delivery.

To ensure your application is competitive, please use the Supporting Statement section of the application form to provide clear evidence and specific examples of how you meet the requirements of this role. We are particularly looking for evidence in the following areas:

• Driving Apprentice Achievement: Provide examples of strategies or interventions you have implemented to improve learner retention, achievement rates, or End‑Point Assessment (EPA) outcomes.
• Leadership and Team Management: Describe your experience in supervising or leading a team of vocational staff. How have you motivated colleagues to maintain high standards and meet departmental targets?
• Curriculum Collaboration: Demonstrate how you have worked alongside a Curriculum Lead (or similar role) to ensure that practical workshop activities and theoretical schemes of work are effectively integrated.
• Quality and Compliance: Detail your experience with Internal Quality Assurance (IQA) and your understanding of how to maintain “Ofsted-ready” documentation and ESFA funding compliance.
• Employer Engagement: Give an example of how you have successfully managed a relationship with a construction employer to support an apprentice’s progress or resolve a delivery challenge.
• Industry Expertise: Briefly outline how your vocational background and teaching qualifications have prepared you to lead a multidisciplinary construction department.

Why Join Us?

• Competitive salary
• Enrolment onto the Teachers Pension Scheme – 28.68% Employers contribution
• 35 Bookable annual leave days, bank holidays, and 2 weeks off at Christmas.
• Professional development opportunities.
• Access to same‑day GP appointments, high street discounts, discounted hair and beauty treatments, electric car scheme.
• On‑site gym & florist (site dependent).
• Access to our In‑house Food Hall & Coffee Shops.

Additional Information

• Safer Recruitment: As part of the recruitment process and in line with keeping children safe in education, we will conduct social media checks on shortlisted candidates. Additionally, before commencing employment, all employees undergo safer recruitment checks, including an enhanced DBS.
• Right to Work: Applicants must be authorised to work in the UK. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.

Closing Date: 12th April

Interviews: 24th April

For any further details contact us at staff.recruitment@dncolleges.ac.uk

About Us

At DN Colleges Group, we are working towards a common goal: to transform our communities through learning. This vision reflects our belief in our students and in our ability to transform their lives so positively. Our students are at the heart of everything we do. Our educational hub spans Scunthorpe to Doncaster and beyond. We combine distinct, high quality teaching and learning with local, regional and global reach. We connect our students and staff with partners and employers across the east/west corridor from Sheffield City Region to the Humber and Lincolnshire, across the UK and internationally.

Our values

This vision is supported by a set of values that underpin how we operate every day across our organisation. Across every team and department, we follow core values that guide our decision making, our interactions and our approach to challenges. These values are a fundamental part of DN Colleges Group, as we aspire to deliver outstanding and inspirational teaching and learning for our students every day.

• Ambition: To achieve the highest standards.
• Support: A caring, safe and inclusive environment.
• Partnership: Collaborative working to achieve shared goals.
• Innovation: We use our initiative and are agile in finding creative solutions.
• Responsibility: We take individual and collective responsibility.
• Equality: We work with integrity and are open, honest and respectful of each other.