Lecturer in Functional Skills (English & Maths) - Hourly Paid

Location: West Bromwich, West Midlands

Working Hours: 23

Salary: £26.52 per hour (Qualified Lecturer)

Sandwell College is a fantastic leading organisation. We are a large, successful, richly diverse and growing college based on the outskirts of Birmingham. We have achieved significant success over recent years and we have further, big ambitions for the future with just under 7,000 students currently studying with us.

We offer competitive pay and excellent rewards including:

• Excellent annual leave for Lecturers plus bank holiday allowance
• Competitive pension scheme
• A variety of health and wellbeing programmes
• Discounted gym membership
• Progressive career development and training with regular ‘Appreciation Days’

As one of the leading Further Education Colleges within the West Midlands, we have a brilliant opportunity for an expert within Functional Skills to join us on an ongoing and hourly-paid basis reporting into the Head of Apprenticeships – Delivery and Development.

You will contribute to the apprenticeship on-boarding process by ensuring thorough English and Maths initial assessments are carried out to accurately identify apprentice’s starting point. Working collaboratively with learners, you will successfully deliver both Maths and English Functional Skills and design learning plans to suit individual needs, enable them to achieve their qualifications as well as apply their learning in the workplace. You will ensure the diagnostic assessments are completed for all learners and utilise materials to design Functional Skills programmes covering areas needed of development.

As part of this role, you will ensure sound working knowledge of apprenticeship funding rules in relation to apprenticeship delivery and Functional Skills compliance, whilst pro-actively working towards the Ofsted EIF. You will support quality improvement plans by collaborating with the vocational team to embed Maths and English across the apprenticeship provision.

Preparing innovative teaching materials and delivering engaging teaching and learning, you will be a driven individual who is enthusiastic about Functional Skills and supporting students achieve their goals.

To be successful you will have a recognised teaching qualification, (L5 or above) and experience of working within Maths and English at Level 2 and Study Skills at Level 3 within Further Education across a wide range of vocational areas. You will be inspirational in your teaching and demonstrate the ability to motivate our learners to achieve their targets and career ambitions.

To view the full job description, please click see the attached document or for further information, please contact the HR: HR@sandwell.ac.uk

Closing date is 12 April 2023. We reserve the right to close this vacancy earlier than the advertised date.

Interviews: First stage interviews will take place in TBC

Sandwell College is committed to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults. All appointments are subject to a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service checks. We aim to develop a workforce that reflects the diverse community we serve and positively encourage applications form all.