The role is a tutor post building and running the Highways Academy at Askham Bryan College, a specialist land-based college, on a full-time basis. The work centres on teaching theory and practical learning to apprentices, managing a caseload, and carrying out workplace assessments and reviews. It also involves recruiting new apprentices, finding placements and building links with employers to meet local skills needs. Candidates need experience in the highways sector, and an enhanced DBS check is required.
What the job involves
- Plan, co-ordinate, deliver, assess and review learning activities associated with Highways
- Teach theory and practical learning to a cohort of apprentices against apprenticeship knowledge, skills and behaviours
- Manage and monitor the progress of a learner caseload and arrange workplace assessment visits
- Provide proactive, regular contact with employers
- Interview applicants and carry out skills analysis and initial assessments for new apprentices and employers
- Help learners find work placements and build links with local employers to generate repeat business
- Produce, monitor and update individual training plans for apprentices
- Conduct work-based assessments and internal verification, and prepare for external verification
- Develop work-based assessment materials covering skills, knowledge and behaviours
- Plan, prepare and deliver teaching in line with the college's curriculum needs
- Visit employers and apprentices at work to carry out reviews and support their progress
What’s required
Experience
- Experience in the highways sector
Checks & eligibility
- Enhanced DBS check
- Declaration of all convictions and cautions, including spent ones, as a condition of employment
- Online searches as part of pre-recruitment checks
What’s offered
- Teachers' Pension Scheme with generous employer contributions
- 35 days annual leave, plus 8 bank holiday days pro rata, plus Christmas shutdown
- Company car or mileage paid for visiting apprentices
- Flexible working arrangements (role dependent)
- On-site facilities including a farm, equine centre, wildlife park and VR suite
- Discounted gym membership on site
- Enhanced sick pay and compassionate leave scheme
- Enhanced maternity and adoption pay
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Highways Tutor employer: The Methodist Church in Britain
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
