About The Role

Build Futures, Not Just Walls – Use Your Trade to Make a Real Difference

Are you a skilled Carpenter or Bricklayer ready to take your career in a new and rewarding direction? At EKC Group, we’re looking for industry professionals to help shape lives and futures by delivering high-quality training to serving prisoners at our Eastchurch site, adjacent to HMP Standford Hill.

This is more than just a teaching role — it’s a chance to give back to the community by supporting rehabilitation through education and helping individuals gain the skills they need to lead productive lives post-release.

What You’ll Do:

Teach, train, and assess learners in practical and classroom-based environments
Deliver engaging sessions tailored to a prison education setting
Support learners in achieving their full potential, often for the first time in their lives
Lead on designated programmes, helping shape their design, delivery, and evaluation

Why Join EKC Group?

No teaching experience required – we welcome experienced tradespeople ready to share their knowledge
Full support through our Teacher Academy, including digital skills training and mentoring
- Make a tangible impact on individuals and the wider community
- Join a dedicated and values-driven team in a unique, purpose-led setting
If you're ready to use your skills to change lives — not just build structures — we’d love to hear from you.

Alongside our priority of excellent student experience, we also focus on our employees. Here are just some of our benefits when working for the East Kent Colleges Group:

Competitive salary and holiday entitlement
If new to teaching, you will benefit from £7000 investment in your teacher training when you come straight from industry
Access to 100's of online discounts via our Rewards Scheme (Inc. Restaurant, Grocery, Retail, Gym, Holidays)
Access to cycle to work, car leasing and tech purchasing schemes
Generous pension scheme - 28% employer contribution
Being part of a company with a Eco-Sustainability focus of being Net-Zero
Time off for your child's first day at school, moving home and for interviews
My 10 Days initiative - bid for up-to 10 days off work to pursue voluntary work
Being part of Community Days and Annual Staff Celebration Day

About You

Share Your Trade – Inspire Change Through Teaching

Bring your industry skills to the classroom and make a meaningful difference.

🔹 What We’re Looking For:

A highly organised and creative individual who can plan and deliver engaging, hands-on lessons
Someone with strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build rapport with a diverse range of learners
Confidence in managing a classroom, even in a unique setting like a secure establishment
A positive, empathetic approach to working with learners who may face significant personal challenges
The ability to assess and track learner progress, using this to plan meaningful intervention and support

🔹 Your Teaching Role:

Deliver a range of vocational study programmes, from Level 1 to Level 3
Motivate and inspire learners to achieve qualifications and gain confidence
Create a learning environment that reflects real-world construction standards and expectations
Contribute to the design, delivery and continual improvement of the curriculum

🔹 Ideal Candidate:

You might already have teaching experience – but if not, don’t worry
Experience in delivering training on-site or mentoring junior colleagues is highly valuable
Full training and teacher development support is provided via our Teacher Academy

If you’re passionate about your trade and want to use your skills to change lives, we’d love to hear from you. Just click apply and complete our short application form.

Please contact the Resourcing Team at [email protected] if you have any queries about this position.

Please note that there are two salary scale points for our Lecturer positions. All candidates will start at the introductory salary scale point unless certain criteria are met. Employees can move up the salary scale once one full academic year of teaching for our group is complete, subject to approval. Therefore, internal applicants may qualify for the higher salary scale, although should seek clarification.

About Us

Outstanding Ofsted Provider

East Kent Colleges Group is an Ofsted Outstanding rated provider. It is proud to be the first General Further Education college organisation in the country to have received the Outstanding grade against each of the strands under the new Ofsted inspection framework. An inclusive provider, our colleagues place our students and the communities we serve at the heart of everything they do across EKC Group and this is illustrated in our ‘Strong’ skills grading by Ofsted.

Commitment to Safeguarding

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and we ensure that all staff are aware of their responsibilities for upholding these principles.

As a designated establishment, we are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore have an obligation to carry out checks to ensure that staff are suitable to work with children and vulnerable adults. These checks include conviction/caution self-declaration, Enhanced DBS check and obtaining sufficient referencing.

It is a criminal offence to apply for a post which involves engaging in regulated activity relevant to children if you are barred from doing so.

If you are successful in being shortlisted to interview, your suitability to work with children and vulnerable adults will be explored as part of the interview process.

Commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

East Kent Colleges Group is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all members of our communities. We are particularly keen to increase the diversity of our staff body and encourage applications from candidates where there is underrepresentation in our workforce.

We are proud to hold the Positive About Disability Award and are a Disability Confident Employer. This confirms our commitment to interviewing all applicants who declare that they have a disability and who meet the essential criteria outlined in the person specification. With any successful candidate, we will explore any reasonable adjustments to a role due to a health needs or disability.

Similarly, we have a commitment to Care Leavers (Care Covenant Pledge) and to current or previous Armed Forces personnel (Armed Forces Covenant Pledge) with a commitment to interview applicants who meet the positions essential criteria and who have declared this on their application.

We welcome applications from anyone wishing to work flexibly and those considering a return to work from a career break.

We do not engage with agencies for permanent staff and have an in-house recruitment team.

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Lecturer - Carpentry/Bricklaying