Are you an innovative and outstanding practitioner? Have you been instrumental in making a positive difference in improving Teaching and Learning? Do you have effective coaching skills?

Milton Keynes College deliver an exciting and varied curriculum in 27 of Her Majesty’s Prisons and Young Offenders Institutes and we currently have a vacancy for a Teaching and Learning Advanced Practitioner.

This role will be based in West Midlands working across the ten prisons within this region, supporting the achievement of consistent overall improvements in teaching, learning and assessment, in addition to supporting learner success rates in all subject areas (particularly Maths and English).

As a member of our West Midlands Regional Team, you will drive improvements in Teaching, Learning and Assessment through:

• Effectively coaching colleagues to drive improvements in teaching, learning and assessment
• Identifying and developing models to share best practice
• Planning and delivering engaging CPD and training sessions to meet the development needs of different curriculum areas
• Consistently delivering innovative and outstanding teaching and learning sessions
• Demonstrate expertise and effectiveness through exemplary assessment practice
• The requirement of this role is to work across the whole of the West Midlands prison estate

More about the rewards

• 35 days annual leave, 3 additional days leave for Christmas to New Year closure and UK Bank Holidays
• Able to apply for an NUS Extra Card and Blue lights card, offering a wide range of High Street Discounts
• Teachers’ Pension Scheme
• Childcare Vouchers
• Continued Professional Development Opportunities
• Cycle To Work Scheme
• Access to ‘JUICE’ the employees’ health and wellbeing platform
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Contributions towards Eye Tests for Visual Display users
• Plus, many more

Location: West Midlands Region
Hours: 37 hours per week, 52 weeks per year
Salary: £28,940 to £34,327 per annum
Closing date: Friday 8th September 2017

The West Midlands region is diverse and includes female prisons, high security, young offenders and a range of training establishments. A number of these establishments are Ofsted graded as ‘Good’.

As a successful candidate, you will:

• Be an outstanding and innovative practitioner supported by grade 1 lesson observation records
• Hold a full driving licence, teaching qualification, assessor and verifier awards
• Have effective coaching skills to support colleagues and drive sustained improvements in teaching, learning and assessment
• Have a record of identifying staff development needs; developing and delivering innovative training to meet these needs to improve staff performance and learners’ experience
• Experienced at delivering to challenging cohorts and delivering to a range of different levels
• Able to effectively identify, develop and share resources focused on teaching and learning
• Have knowledge of the Common Inspection Framework and ideally have been involved in the inspection process
• Have knowledge of Functional Skills - English and mathematics

More about the College

Milton Keynes College is proud to be an open and inclusive general Further Education College welcoming learners of all levels and delivering an exceptional educational experience. The College offers a broad range of qualifications with more than 3,000 16 – 18-year-old full-time students studying traditional A Levels, vocational courses, apprenticeships and Higher Education. In addition, the College delivers employability and key skills training programmes to 3,000 people in local community learning centres and is one of the largest providers of Offender Learning in England, working with 27 prisons across the East Midlands, South Central and West Midlands.