About The Role

Your Skills, Their Success, Supporting the Community's Future - Join us as a Lecturer

As a Lecturer of Bricklaying for EKC Training, you’ll inspire the next generation of skilled tradespeople. You’ll teach, train and assess students across a variety of learning environments, ensuring every learner has the opportunity to succeed and reach their full potential.

This role is based at Eastchurch, Sheppey, where we deliver courses to Cat D prisoners as well as to community learners.

What you’ll be doing:

Teaching and assessing Level 2 Bricklaying (practical and theory)
Supporting learners to achieve their qualifications and career goals
Designing, delivering and evaluating engaging programmes of study
Encouraging and motivating students to develop confidence and employability skills
Leading and contributing to designated study programmes and/or courses
Delivering other multi-trade skills (desirable but not essential)

What we’re looking for:

Strong knowledge and experience in Bricklaying
Confident in delivering theory as well as practical sessions
Organised, supportive and passionate about helping learners succeed
Teaching experience is welcome, but not essential – training is provided

Why join us?

Full support through our Teacher Academy with training, coaching and mentoring
A chance to make a real difference in learners’ live
Development of digital skills and teaching confidenc
Opportunity to grow your career within a forward-thinking college group

If you’re passionate about sharing your trade knowledge and supporting learners to achieve their goals, 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:

Generous and Consistent Holiday Pattern- aligned with our academic calendar
Teacher Training- we support new teachers with a £7000 investment in your training and coaching through our in-house Teaching Academy
Flexible Personal Leave- Time off for your child's first day at nursery, school or college, moving homes and for interviews
Exclusive Discounts & Perks- Inc. restaurant, grocery, retail and holidays discounts as well as car leasing and tech purchasing schemes
Wellbeing and Health Support- Generous sick pay, counselling services, discounted gym membership at Canterbury College, free eye tests and glasses vouchers, flexible support for medical appointments and return-to-work transitions
Competitive Pension Scheme- 28% company contribution
Culture and Recognition- Being part of Community Days, an Annual Staff Celebration Day, and an eco-friendly organisation dedicated to reaching net-zero by 2030

About You

You will be a highly organised and creative educator, able to plan and deliver engaging lessons that inspire learners and help them reach their full potential. Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to assess, track and support student progress are essential to ensuring all learners succeed.

What we’re looking for:

Ability to design and deliver innovative lessons that capture learners’ interest
Strong skills in assessing, tracking and planning interventions to support progress
A positive outlook and empathetic approach towards learners
Confident classroom management skills to maintain a supportive learning environment
Flexibility to teach a range of study programmes from Level 1 to Level 3
Ability to motivate and inspire learners to achieve their goals

Desirable (but not essential):

Teaching experience or experience delivering workplace training – full training and support will be provided for the successful applicant

Ready to apply?

No need to spend time updating your CV, just click apply and complete our short application form. You can save your progress as you go, and we’ll review all applications and get back to all candidates after the closing date.

If you are interested in an informal chat about the role, or have any queries, please email us on[email protected]

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. Lecturers will normally move up to the highest salary scale once one full academic year of teaching for our group is complete. (Lecturers must be in post by 1^st September in any given year to qualify and this is subject to approval). Therefore, internal applicants in the same role 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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