Lecturer - Motor Vehicle (Dunstable)

Location: Central Bedfordshire College - Dunstable Campus

Benefits: Teacher’s pension, Retail and Leisure Discounts, excellent professional and personal development opportunities, accessing college courses.

Contract Type: Full Time - Fixed Term until 04 July 2025

About the role:

We are currently seeking a Motor Vehicle Lecturer to join our Motor Vehicle department at The Bedford College group.

As a Lecturer, you play an important role in the success of our students through:

• Delivering effective, up-to-date, and stimulating learning opportunities, leading to success and progression for our learners.
• Planning relevant learning programmes and schemes of work.
• Designing individual lessons and activities to ensure full coverage of syllabus learning objectives, meeting every learner’s needs.
• Preparing learning resources to enhance learning opportunities.
• Planning work experience as required
• Managing learner behaviour by negotiating ground rules, setting boundaries, and maintaining high standards.
• Ensuring a safe learning environment in the classroom or workshop, conducting risk assessments as appropriate.
• Managing the use of learning resources.
• Monitoring learner attendance and following up on absences with relevant interventions.
• Setting clear lesson objectives with learners.
• Providing a sequenced range of learning activities to engage learners and sustain their interest.
• Offering differentiated learning opportunities for individual learners.
• Maximising the use of time in each session.
• Facilitating learner contributions through demonstrations, presentations, and group work.
• Providing learners with constructive feedback.
• Reviewing lesson objectives with learners.
• Conducting effective initial assessments to select learners for the right course and plan their learning accordingly.
• Preparing and setting activities and assignments to assess learning, using approved marking schemes and grading criteria.
• Setting clear deadlines for learners to complete assignments and return assessed work on agreed dates.
• Attending and participating in all team meetings, providing information and data as required, and contributing actively to quality improvement.
• Contributing to the coordination and development of the courses you teach.
• Embracing development opportunities and seeking out learning opportunities to transform your teaching, keeping up-to-date with industrial developments in your field.
• Managing yourself to maintain a healthy work-life balance.

About you:

• Have a teaching qualification equivalent to Qualified Teacher Learning and Skills (or be willing to work towards)
• Have a Level 2 qualification in maths and English
• Have an Assessor Award (or be willing to work towards)
• Have up to date industry standard vocational skills and commitment to continue to maintain them
• Have experience working in the relevant industry
• Possess the skills required to teach across a range of related vocational areas, and across learner levels
• Have clear presentation skills
• Have relevant and up to date knowledge of the latest technology in the relevant vocational area.
• Have relevant and up to date knowledge of Quality Assurance systems as they apply in the industry
• Possess the ability to solve problems and ensure practical sessions run smoothly
• Possess the ability to demonstrate, motivate and inspire
• Are a good team player
• Are motivated by learner success
• Are committed to personal and continuous professional development

For a more detailed breakdown of the job role and the requirements, please see the Job Description attached to this vacancy.

Successful candidates must also be able to demonstrate alignment to our organisational VISION values:

• Valuing Teamwork - We are one team who by working together can achieve great things, respecting the opinion and valuing the contribution each of us makes.
• Improving Continuously - We challenge ourselves to always do better by trying new things, sharing knowledge, reflecting on practice and learning from others.
• Student Centred - At our heart is always doing what is best for our students. We consider students in all of our decision making to create positive outcomes and memorable experiences for every student.
• Inclusive - We celebrate differences and diversity, recognising that we can learn from each other.
• Open and Caring - We care about the wellbeing of our staff, our students, our community and wider society, creating an environment built on trust where we listen, engage with and support each other.
• Nurturing Education Excellence - We promote educational excellence by delivering programmes that challenge our students to achieve their ambitions.

About Bedford College

Central Bedfordshire College (CBC) operates campuses across Central Bedfordshire.  Offering a wide range of modern and professional facilities to prepare students for their chosen career pathway.  CBC benefits from excellent transport links and town centre locations, enabling students to experience a high standard of education and training, alongside a thriving social experience.

About The Bedford College Group

The Bedford College Group was formed in 2017 following the merger of Bedford College and Tresham College and is now the largest provider of education in the South East Midlands, with over 15,000 students passing through our doors each year.

Today, the Group is made up of a family of colleges across Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire: Bedford College, Central Bedfordshire College and Tresham College in the towns of Bedford, Dunstable, Leighton Buzzard, Corby, Kettering and Wellingborough; Shuttleworth College, a specialist land-based college; The Bedford Sixth Form, (the only dedicated sixth form in Bedford); The Corby Sixth Form, (opened in September 2023); and the National College for Motorsport alongside Silverstone race circuit. To widen accessibility to education and training, the Group also has community-based Learning Centres in Bedford, Corby and Kettering which offer IT training.

Safeguarding our Students

The Bedford College Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to thorough vetting process which includes, an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory references.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975, provides information about which convictions must be declared during job applications and related exceptions and further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide. The Bedford College Group's policy on Employment of Ex-Offenders is attached to this vacancy.

Candidates who are barred from working with children are reminded it is a criminal offence to apply for this post.

Job Description:

Motor Vehicle Job Description (2).docx

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