Training Coordinator - Electrical

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The Bedford College Group

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Posted:

19.08.2025

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03.10.2025

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Job Description:

Location: Bedford College – Bedford Cauldwell Street Campus

Salary/Benefits: Salary from £29,870 per annum DOE and Qualifications, 27 days annual leave plus Bank holidays, People’s pension, Retail and Leisure Discounts, excellent professional and personal development opportunities, accessing college courses.

Contract Type: Permanent – Full Time

About the role:

We are currently seeking an Electrical Training Coordinator to join our Apprenticeships department at The Bedford College group.

As a Training Coordinator, you play an important role in the success of our students through:

• Supporting apprentices in the work place, enabling them to develop the relevant skills, knowledge and core competencies that will lead to the successful completion of their apprenticeship
• Ensuring that apprentice progress is tracked robustly through each stage of their programme, mapping across all components of their framework or standard, using the OneFile eportfolio system.
• Establishing and maintaining effective relationships with employers and classroom based tutors to ensure regular communication about apprentice performance and progress.
• Teaching/Case Load duties
• Working as an effective member of a delivery team ensuring that learners are appropriately inducted, trained, assessed and supported through their learning programme.
• Working with the employer and apprentice and steering them towards appropriate pathway options to meet their job role and business need requirements.
• Enabling the apprentice to complete a skills scan to establish their starting point at sign up.
• Ensuring that apprentices are initially assessed via BKSB, meet relevant entry points and are accurately enrolled against all mandatory components
• Identifying any additional learning needs of the apprentice, ensuring that a swift referral is made where required and monitor effectiveness of support with apprentice during on programme learning.
• Actively leading the induction process for every apprentice during the first 6 weeks on programme to ensure a high-quality initial experience, clarity of information given and all required evidence is collated.
• Carrying out Health and Safety assessments in the workplace (if relevant).
• Providing each apprentice with a training and learning plan at the start of their programme, which is agreed with the employer and tailored to their needs.
• Supporting apprentices by conducting regular coaching, monitoring, assessment and review visits in the workplace. Reviews must be carried out no less frequently than a minimum of once every 10-12 weeks.
• Regularly liaising with employers to organise assessment/mentoring visits or reviews and provide regular feedback on the progress their apprentices are making.
• Planning, tracking and evidencing an apprentice’s 20% off the job time through their training plan, OneFile, registers of attendance etc.
• Providing opportunities for apprentices to further develop their understanding of maths and English in relation to their workplace environment and job role expectation.
• Giving robust, qualitative feedback to learners on the assessments and evidence they provide.
• Reviewing progress and set “smart” targets with learners to ensure high performance against all programme components.
• Ensuring that records are maintained to evidence enrolment, attendance, contact, achievement and 20% OTJ to meet all internal/external audit requirements.
• Ensuring that all pre-enrolment checks are completed to a satisfactory level, including Skills Scans and Initial Assessments.

About you:

• Hold a qualification at level 3 or above in the relevant vocational subject specialism
• Have English and Mathematics or similar at GCSE grade A-C or equivalent.
• Hold a TAQA L3 or equivalent qualification or be willing to work towards
• Hold a TAQA L4 or equivalent qualification or be willing to work towards
• Hold a Level 3 Award in Education and Training or be willing to work towards
• Have experience of working in the relevant vocational industry
• Have experience of training and assessing NVQ qualifications in the relevant vocational sector
• Possess the ability to confidently use IT software and online eportfolio systems
• Possess the ability to deliver training effectively based on current sector practices, knowledge and qualifications.
• Possess the ability to provide robust qualitative candidate feedback
• Be committed to promoting equality and diversity
• Hold a current driving licence and have access to a car

Successful candidates must also be able to demonstrate alignment to our organisationalVISION 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.

Connolly Foundation Incentive Scheme

Successful candidates who will be entering the education sector directly from a relevant industry role will be eligible for a payment of £5,000 fromThe Connolly Foundation (subject to the rules of the scheme).

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 andTreshamCollegein the towns of Bedford, Dunstable, Leighton Buzzard, Corby, Kettering and Wellingborough;ShuttleworthCollege,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 MotorsportalongsideSilverstonerace 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.

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