Industry Coach - Electrical Installation Apprenticeships

Ref: REQ001395

Competitive salary and excellent benefits. Full Time.

We currently have a vacancy to join our highly successful apprenticeship team, as an Industry Coach for our apprentices completing their Apprenticeship to become a qualified Electrician. You will have appropriate industry experience.

The Industry Coach will provide a tripartite service in the workplace. Sharing your skills and knowledge, you will utilise your experience to motivate apprentices and other work-based candidates to achieve their qualification. You will work to enhance and support the learner and employer experience through effective skills coaching and will be responsible for supporting and assessing off the job elements through training sessions and one to one meetings with the apprentice and employer. You will support learners on all elements of their apprenticeship including skills, knowledge, and behaviours. This role will require fully preparing apprentices as they work towards their end point assessment.

Working from our Aldershot Campus, the post is to deliver high quality training and assessment that supports effective learning and high levels of learner retention and achievement.

You will have a level 3 or above qualification in Electrical Installation and relevant industry experience. In addition, you will ideally have a recognised assessor qualification although the college will train and support suitable candidates to achieve their Assessor qualification.

This is a superb opportunity for a first-class applicant to work in an Outstanding College. In turn we can offer you interesting and varied work with an excellent benefits package.

Benefits include: LGPS Pension, 32 days holiday, onsite gym, Employee Assistance Programme including Savings Centre offering retail discounts, Refectory and free on-site parking.

Farnborough College of Technology is an Equal Opportunities Employer.

Interviews will take place shortly after the published closing date or when a suitable number of appropriate applications have been received, so early submissions are encouraged. Suitable candidates may be interviewed before the closing date and we reserve the right to withdraw the position if an early appointment is made.

The College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment.

Positions within the College will involve contact with young people and vulnerable adults. Consequently, post-holders will be obliged to demonstrate and maintain their suitability to work with young people and vulnerable adults. This will include a requirement to undertake an enhanced DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) check, in addition to referencing and qualification checks.

Farnborough College of Technology complies fully with the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Code of Practice regarding the correct handling, storage, retention and disposal of Disclosures and Disclosure information, and undertakes not to discriminate unfairly against any subject of a disclosure on the basis of a conviction or other information revealed.

Since the post for which you are applying may involve unsupervised access to children and vulnerable adults, it will be exempt from the provisions of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exemptions Amendment Order 1986) please refer to the DBS website for further information.

Candidates who are offered an interview for such posts will be required to disclose details, cautions (including final warnings or reprimands), or convictions which are not "protected" as defined by the Exceptions Order 1975 (2013 and 2020), or any other matters that may be relevant to their suitability to work for the College. The College will regard any failure to disclose your criminal record as a breach of trust. It is College Policy that all candidates will be subject to a Disclosure check if offered the post for which the application has been made. Please note that the College is unable to consider an application further if the candidate declines to complete the Disclosure form.