Lecturer -It Digital Trainer & Community Worker

IT Digital Trainer & Community Worker Lecturer

35 hours per week Full time - Permanent contract

Salary Range: £32,379-£46,014

Main Location Stretford- Able to travel across all 5 campuses and with community partners.

About us- A Great Place to Work.

As an employer and a provider of education and training, Trafford & Stockport College Group is an inclusive organisation where individual differences are respected, staff and learners are treated on their merits, and everyone has a fair opportunity to fulfil their potential. If you share our passion for success and want to inspire our future workforce there has never been a better time to work for Trafford & Stockport College Group.

About the Adult and Community Learning Department

The Adult & Community Learning is an ambitious and fast-moving division that focuses on delivering professional adult courses in a vast range of subject areas whilst providing excellent customer service and quality services for our staff and students.

The Role

• You will deliver outstanding courses using a diverse range of teaching and learning strategies. You will provide learners with an exceptional educational experience enabling them to maximise their potential.
• You will teach the standard curriculum of Functional Skills IT and Essential Digital Skills to Part-Time Adult groups whose English is a second language ( ESOL) to enable learners to progress on to more advanced IT courses. Recent and relevant experience of teaching these subjects (Beginners through to Level 3) would be advantageous.
• You will be required to identify marketing opportunities and create marketing materials to meet individual community needs. Represent the College in a calendar of events to raise the profile of Community learning.
• You will have to ensure documentation including schemes of work, lesson plans and specialist resources are in place before the start of courses. Respond to student and partner enquiries, and provide advice on learning opportunities and support systems. Contribute to the day-to-day organisation, running and administration of the Team, and ensure all paperwork, data and administration is kept up to date.
• You will be required to provide information, advice and guidance for learners, identifying individual support needs and individual progression opportunities. Where appropriate liaise with other agencies and signpost leaners to appropriate provision.
• You will participate in course teams and other staff meetings. Carry out any other duties that may be reasonably required, commensurate with the grade at the initial place of work or other locations within the Group’s catchment area.
• To work closely with the Community Learning (CL) Coordinator to deliver responsive, high-quality community learning provision.
• To actively research and identify community needs, using local intelligence and partnership work to maximize the opportunities for community learning.
• Develop and maintain strong links with a wide range of community partners, agencies, groups and development workers to strengthen the capacity of local people in different communities to participate in adult/community learning.
• Liaise with individuals in the community to create demand-led provision by understanding national/regional agendas and translating this into local opportunities thus meeting the needs of local communities and organization.

About you :

If you are passionate about teaching and sharing your knowledge, skills, and experience and have an enthusiasm for supporting learners then there has never been a better time to join Trafford & Stockport College Group. You must be enthusiastic, experienced, confident at teaching a range of students at different levels, and be able to engage the learners.

Our staff Care Bundle

• Generous annual leave allowance, including Christmas/New Year closure.
• Substantial Pension scheme
• Well-being programme with counselling, fitness, and sports facilities
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• On-site Café
• Customise Learning & Development career programs.
• Staff discounts on a range of products and services including travel and high street savings.
• Family Friendly policies to ensure work-life balance.
• Job opportunities, providing flexibility in choosing or changing a career path to suit your changing needs and ambitions.

Staff at Trafford & Stockport College Group go above and beyond to ensure that our students get the best possible teaching and support to enable them to reach their ambitions. We expect the very highest standards for all students, and this is evidenced year after year by our achievement and progression outcomes.

The Trafford & Stockport College Group promotes, celebrates and values diversity and is committed to promoting equality for all. As part of our commitment to being a Disability Confident Employer, all disabled applicants who meet the minimum requirements of the job, as set out in the job description and person specification, will be guaranteed an interview.

The Trafford & Stockport College Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all learners and expects all staff to share this commitment. Employment at the Trafford & Stockport College Group is subject to an Enhanced DBS (Disclosure & Barring Service) Check via the Disclosure and Barring Service and any post in regulated activity will also be subject to an additional barred list check. The Group will meet the costs associated with this.

Please note that due to the volume of applications we receive, we are unfortunately not able to respond to each applicant. If you have not been called for an interview within 3 weeks of the closing date, you should assume that on this occasion your application has been unsuccessful.

This position is open to direct applicants only.

We look forward to receiving an application from you.

** This role may close early please submit your application early to avoid disappointment **