Posted 2 weeks ago
Only considering candidates eligible to work in Grantham, UK ⚠️
Plumbing Lecturer & Trainer
Job Reference: PL/03.2025
Salary: This is a full time role with an actual salary of up to £38,642 per annum.
Working Hours: 33 hours per week over 4 days, 52 weeks per year.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Plumbing Lecturer & Trainer to join our Construction department.
The College have successfully secured funding from the Greater Lincolnshire LEP (Local Enterprise Partnership) and have created a multi-million-pound centre of excellence for sustainability and renewable energies. The project transformed our provision with industry-standard workshops, equipment, and digital learning spaces. The Energy Centre allows us to expand our provision and offer new Engineering and Construction courses in electrical installation, plumbing, gas fitting and renewable energies including solar, wind, and air source heating. Together with our Institute of Technology, the Energy Centre marks a flagship investment by Grantham College in training for the jobs of the future.
The purpose of the role is to be responsible for teaching and assessing various Renewable Energy, Gas, Plumbing and Domestic Heating qualifications at Levels 1, 2 and 3 on Full time students and/or Apprentices and assisting with the development of the Construction curriculum.
The successful applicant must have:
- City and Guilds L3 Diploma or other awarding body in Plumbing and Domestic Heating or NVQ Level 3 in Plumbing and Domestic Heating
- City and Guilds 7404 Parts 1 and 2, PGCE or Cert Ed. PTLLS, DTLLS Or a willingness to acquire.
- Good communication skills
- Previous teaching experience at an appropriate level
- Appropriate industrial experience
The roles main duties include:
- Teaching, assessing and as appropriate, internally verifying various Renewable Energy, Gas and Plumbing construction courses up to level 3, on site and off site to students and/or apprentices.
- Supporting the development and expansion of the Construction Curriculum.
- Ensuring that the Construction Curriculum is fully up to quality standard and to assist with the further development of the Construction Centre.
- Assisting in the marketing of the College provision through attendance at Careers Conventions, Open Days and other promotional events.
- Providing vocational support and guidance to learners. To track and target individual student/apprentice progress.
- Carrying out administrative duties associated with teaching, including maintenance of registers, schemes of work, assessments, reports, course records and course evaluations to a good standard and within established deadlines.
- Assisting in the development of curriculum support materials.
- Ensuring safe working practices are observed by yourself and others (including students) for whom you are responsible.
- Providing such returns or reports as may from time to time be required by the Head of Curriculum or College.
- Assisting in the recruitment of students, including interviewing and enrolments.
- Assisting with programmes of work experience and/or industrial and commercial liaison, including the organisation and monitoring of work experience placements.
This role requires you to engage in regulatory activity in the FE sector. The full definition of regulatory activity is set out in the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 as amended by the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012. Regulated activity includes teaching, instructing, caring for or supervising children if the person is unsupervised.
Fancy a 4-day working week*?
Grantham College operate a 4-day working week. Staff benefit from a reduction in working hours with full pay. You will work core hours (based on a full-time equivalent contract) of Monday to Thursday, working a Friday morning once a month.
Grantham College experience positive benefits from the 4-day week, including improvement to staff wellbeing and morale. We have also seen benefits in terms of reduced staff turnover leading to greater consistency of performance for our students and apprentices. The number of staff sickness absence days has reduced alongside the energy usage for the college and therefore its carbon emissions. We have also seen improvements in key quality indicators such as student attendance and retention and we are confident this will feed through into improved achievement rates and more positive outcomes for our students.
What we offer you in return:
- An excellent pension scheme :
- Teachers’ Pension: Employer Contribution 28.68%
- A continued professional development programme of up to £750 per academic year
- In addition to the 8 Bank Holidays a year, a generous annual leave allowance of:
- 7.4 Weeks for Academic employees,
- Generous occupational sick pay scheme after one years service
- Family friendly policies, including up to 5 paid occasions for time off for dependants within a 12 month period, after the first year of service
- Up to Five college closure days in December in addition to annual leave
The closing date for all applications will be Sunday 23 March 2025.
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Please note that due to the volume of applications we receive we will only be able to contact candidates who have been selected for interview. You are welcome to download a full application pack and return your completed application to [email protected]
Please note that we do not accept CV’s by way of application or online application via other websites, you must complete a Grantham College application form. Grantham College are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. All employment offers are subject to a self-funded satisfactory enhanced DBS check. The successful applicant will have a deduction of £61.50 taken from payroll. We are committed to diversity, equity and inclusion and welcome applications from all sections of the community.
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