Project Instructor - NEET (18 hours p/w, Term Time Only + 4 Weeks) in Middleton

To provide high-quality instruction and support within the Skills for Life department. The post holder will primarily facilitate small group projects, with a strong focus on monitoring and coaching learners to make progress across attendance, achievement, personal development, and wider learning goals. The Project Instructor will play a central role in ensuring learners — many with SEND and additional support needs — complete effective projects that recognise, develop and demonstrate a core set of skills, attitudes and personal qualities that enable learners to develop their confidence and resilience required for success in education, employment, and independent living.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and facilitate projects that develop a personal journey focused on building confidence and self-esteem and building their social network.
• Provide structured group sessions that enhance learner communication, organisation and leadership skills.
• Connect and engage with wider college activities, local community projects and initiatives.
• Provide an inclusive environment where learners who have not succeeded in school, or have additional barriers to learning and participation, feel welcome and have the opportunities to develop, enjoy and achieve.
• Monitor, track, record and feedback learner progress, attendance, achievement and personal development, effectively using College systems (ProMonitor, Teams, etc.).
• Contribute to the delivery and reinforcement of wider themes, such as safeguarding, employability, resilience, British Values, and personal/social development.
• Support learners in setting, reviewing and achieving individual targets (including RARPA and EHCP outcomes where applicable).
• Facilitate learning in different settings, e.g classroom, workshops, excursions.
• Work collaboratively with staff teams, support staff and external professionals to ensure a joined-up approach to learner support.
• Provide additional encouragement, motivation and pastoral care to promote learner well-being, engagement and independence.
• Maintain accurate records in line with College policies, ensuring that learner progress and interventions are captured clearly.
• Contribute to the wider Skills for Life team by participating in team meetings, CPD and quality improvement processes.
• Ensure all safeguarding, health and safety, and equality duties are carried out in line with College policy.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

Qualifications

Essential Criteria

• Minimum Level 2 in English and maths (or willingness to work towards).
• Relevant qualification in education, youth work, coaching, or equivalent experience.

Desirable Criteria

• Level 3 qualification in Learning Support, Mentoring, IAG (Information, Advice and Guidance), or Coaching.
• Training in safeguarding, SEND, or mental health awareness.

Experience

Essential Criteria

• Experience of supporting young people or adults in education, training, mentoring, or pastoral care.
• Experience of tracking and monitoring learner progress against targets.

Desirable Criteria

• Experience of working with SEND learners in an FE or school setting.
• Experience of delivering tutorials or structured sessions to groups or individuals.

Specialist Knowledge

Essential Criteria

• Understanding of barriers to learning and strategies to overcome them.
• Awareness of safeguarding, equality and diversity, and health & safety responsibilities in an education setting.

IT Skills

Essential Criteria

• Confident in the use of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Teams) and online tracking systems.
• Ability to maintain accurate and timely records of learner progress.

Desirable Criteria

• Experience using FE learner monitoring platforms (e.g., ProMonitor, e-trackers).