Ref: REQ002003
Excellent Salary and benefits. Full Time
Due to a huge expansion of apprenticeships, we currently have a vacancy to join our highly successful apprenticeship team, as a Coach/Mentor in Engineering Apprenticeships. You will ideally have Industry experience in Engineering.
Working with our Business Services and Engineering team in Farnborough, the post will include working with employers, apprentices, and working with colleagues from across the College to deliver high quality apprenticeships in a way that supports effective learning and high levels of retention and achievement.
The Coach/Mentor will support and guide the apprentices through their programme including assisting apprentices and employers to prepare for the end-point assessment for the apprenticeship standards. This will include visiting apprentices in their workplace to carry out regular reviews so some travel will be required.
Applicants will need to be qualified to at least level 3 and ideally have appropriate Engineering vocational experience. A high level of administration skills and organisation are key, and applicants must also have excellent communication and IT skills.
This is a superb opportunity for a first-class applicant to work in a highly respected and top-performing college. In turn we can offer you interesting and varied work with an excellent benefits package.
Benefits include: LGPS Pension, 32 days holiday, onsite gym, Employee Assistance Programme including Savings Centre offering retail discounts, Refectory, and free on-site parking.
Farnborough College of Technology is an Equal Opportunities Employer.
Interviews will take place shortly after the published closing date or when a suitable number of appropriate applications have been received, so early submissions are encouraged. Suitable candidates may be interviewed before the closing date, and we reserve the right to withdraw the position if an early appointment is made.
Please note we are not accepting speculative applications from agencies.
Safeguarding for Employees
The College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment.
Positions within the College will involve contact with young people and vulnerable adults. Consequently, post-holders will be obliged to demonstrate and maintain their suitability to work with young people and vulnerable adults. This will include a requirement to undertake an enhanced DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) check, in addition to referencing and qualification checks.
Disclosure and Barring Service
Farnborough College of Technology complies fully with the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Code of Practice regarding the correct handling, storage, retention and disposal of Disclosures and Disclosure information, and undertakes not to discriminate unfairly against any subject of a disclosure on the basis of a conviction or other information revealed.
Since the post for which you are applying may involve unsupervised access to children and vulnerable adults, it will be exempt from the provisions of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exemptions Amendment Order 1986) please refer to the DBS website for further information.
Candidates who are offered an interview for such posts will be required to disclose details, cautions (including final warnings or reprimands), or convictions which are not "protected" as defined by the Exceptions Order 1975 (2013 and 2020), or any other matters that may be relevant to their suitability to work for the College. The College will regard any failure to disclose your criminal record as a breach of trust. It is College Policy that all candidates will be subject to a Disclosure check if offered the post for which the application has been made. Please note that the College is unable to consider an application further if the candidate declines to complete the Disclosure form.
