Technician - Motor Vehicle ME2122022b
Northampton College
Northamptonshire
- £20,160 - £22,285 per year
- Expired
- Salary:
- Depending on skills, experience and qualifications
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 2 December 2021
Job overview
About Northampton College
Northampton College is proud, as the leading provider of further education in the South East Midlands region, to have been ranked, in the 2018/2019 National Achievement Rates Tables (NART), as 7th out of more than 200 colleges for 16 to 18-year old education and training. As a College, who have been rated by Ofsted as ‘good’ with outstanding features, we are committed to developing the professional and technical skills of our students, who are the workforce and leaders of the future.
The Team
The Motor Vehicle team work with students across a range of different courses from general Light Vehicle Maintenance to Heavy Vehicle Maintenance, Vehicle Refinishing, Fabrication and Welding. Automotive full-time courses are run for a full range of levels from Level 1 to Level 3. The college also have a part time adult provision in both Light Vehicle Maintenance and Fabrication and Welding.
The Role
This role would be suited to someone looking to support students learning, with a particular focus on the Light Vehicle Maintenance curriculum. You will support our Motor Vehicle teachers in a vehicle workshop environment with a particular emphasis on health and safety.
You may be asked to demonstrate tasks to enable students to learn new specialist Motor Vehicle skills on their learning programmes. The role could include delivery of general information sessions for students on health and safety in Motor Vehicle.
Managing and ordering equipment, materials and stock within Motor Vehicle in an effective and sustainable manner is an essential part of the role.
The Successful Candidate
The successful candidate’s knowledge, skills, experience, abilities and qualities will include:
- Educated to level 4 (including GCSE Maths & English at a grade C/4 or above)
- A qualification in Motor Vehicle is desirable but not essential. The candidate must be able to demonstrate skills and expertise in the specialist area.
- Experience of working with young people and adults
- Enthusiastic, motivated and committed to supporting and motivating students.
- Digital skills are desirable but not essential, including word processing and electronic communication.
- Passionate about the Motor Vehicle industry.
- Well organised and able to plan and manage resources in a highly effective manner.
Rewards and Benefits include
- 35 days annual leave, comprising 24 personal days, pro rata (1 September – 31 August), including 8 bank holidays and 3 closure days. The College reserves the right to designate up to 3 closure days per holiday year
- Discounts through membership of the NUS, ranging from Student Prime (Amazon), to eating out, fashion, beauty, entertainment, technology and travel
- Eligible to join the Local Government Pension Scheme (a defined contribution scheme including an employer contribution rate of 18.6%)
- Access to continued professional development
- Free car parking
- Gym facilities
- 24 hours per day, 365 days per year Employee Support Helpline
- Enhanced maternity/shared parental and paternity schemes
- Paid Compassionate Leave - up to five working days paid absence (in a rolling twelve-month period) on compassionate grounds in the event of bereavement or serious illness of a close relative)
If you would like to be a part of our successful team please go to https://www.northamptoncollege.ac.uk/working-for-us.html for further details on how to apply.
Job share will be considered for this post
This post will require a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check
Attached documents
About Northampton College
- Northampton College
- Booth Lane, Northampton
- Northamptonshire
- NN3 3RF
- United Kingdom
Northampton College is a mixed, non-selective, non-denominational further education college situated in Northamptonshire. It is a 16-plus institution with three campuses: a major building at its main Northampton site, a smaller campus near the town centre and another 20 miles away in Daventry. It provides places for around 9,000 students aged 16 and over, most of whom are full-time and aged 16-18.
Northampton College was opened in 1973. It merged with Daventry Tertiary College to expand its Daventry campus in August 2004, and its Booth Lane campus reopened after a large redevelopment in 2012.
Principal
Pat Brennan-Barrett
Values and vision
Northampton College’s mission is to give students a sense of development through education. It is an inclusive learning environment that focuses on key strands of provision, provides high-quality learning experiences, and works alongside the local community to create a wider level of participation in learning. The college ethos promotes mutual respect, a high level of engagement and playing a positive role in the community.
Ofsted report
“The inclusive culture promotes a high level of recruitment of students from diverse backgrounds and with a wide range of abilities, many of whom are successful in gaining qualifications and progressing to higher levels of study. Resources and accommodation are almost all of a very high quality and are used very effectively; the learning environment is safe, very well-maintained and welcoming. Governors are very knowledgeable and provide well-informed and constructive challenge to managers in order to promote improvement.”
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