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General Household Maintenance Tutor

Reference: NOV20201226
Expiry date: 2020-11-30 23:59:00.000
Location: Bicester
Salary: £18,015.00 - £32,578.00 Per Annum
Benefits: Excellent Benefits
Attachments: GeneralHouseholdMaintenanceTutorAdvert.pdf
GeneralHouseholdMaintenanceTutorJobDescription.pdf

Milton Keynes College has an exciting opportunity for a General Household Maintenance Tutor to join the education team based at HMP Bullingdon. As a General Household Maintenance Tutor, you will deliver classes including constructing kitchen cabinets, fitting a sink, fitting skirting boards and general household repairs.

Vocational courses at HMP Bullingdon are very popular, with plenty of interest and engagement from learners. A key aspect of this role is being able to effectively engage with learners, some of whom may have had a negative experience in mainstream education or who have limited knowledge. This is an incredibly rewarding opportunity where you will support and inspire learners to develop confidence, skills and experience to achieve vocational qualifications, which they can use to gain sustainable employment upon release.

If you are creative, passionate and can effectively engage with a diverse group of learners, this could be a fantastic opportunity for you to join the education team based in HMP Bullingdon.

If you are not already a teacher this should not stop you reading on and getting in touch. If you do not currently possess a teaching qualification but are willing to work towards one, Milton Keynes College can support training.

Location: HMP Bullingdon, Bicester, OX25 1PZ
Hours: 37 hours per week, 52 weeks per year
Salary: £18,015 - £32,578 per annum
Closing date: Monday 30th November 2020

Milton Keynes College Rewards:

  • 35 days annual leave, 3 additional days leave for Christmas closure (arrangements organised with your line manager) and UK Bank Holidays
  • Access to a generous pension scheme
  • Access to an employee wellbeing platform
  • Access to Continued Professional Development, including in-house teacher training, professional qualifications and a variety of training courses
  • Free 24/7 comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme, including counselling for you and your immediate family, advice on eldercare and referral to serious illness & accident support.
  • Death in Service Plan Benefit
  • Discounts at The Graduate Salon
  • Flexible working options supported (arrangements organised with your line manager)
  • With more to discover

 

About HMP Bullingdon:

Bullingdon Community Prison is situated near the village of Arncott in Bicester, Oxon. HMP Bullingdon is a complex prison that has several functions.  It is categorized as a local category B prison which a category C resettlement function. HMP Bullingdon has the capacity to hold 1114 offenders all serving a range of sentences from remand to life, with the average length of stay between 3 and 6 months.

The College works closely with our prison colleagues to deliver short to medium courses that help prepare learners for employment upon release.  Courses include: English and Maths Functional Skills (Entry 2 to Level 2), ESOL, ICT, Barista, Hospitality, Business, Self-Employment, Personal Development, Art, Painting & Decorating, Horticulture, General Maintenance Skills, Mentoring and Barbering.

In the department we believe the opportunity to gain skills and knowledge will help our learners to end their offending behaviour.  We engage the hardest to reach learners and encourage them to take pride in their own education and self-development.  As a department, we endeavour to inspire learners to achieve and for some, attain their first significant qualifications.

As a successful candidate, you will:

  • Hold a relevant qualification (level 3 or above).
  • Hold a recognised teaching qualification (DTLLS, PGCE, Cert Ed) or willing to work towards
  • Hold relevant assessor/verifier awards.
  • Have teaching/training or vocational experience in relevant subject area and relevant up-to-date knowledge.
  • Have a proven track record of managing and supporting diverse groups of learners through nationally accredited programmes.
  • Have experience of identifying, developing and sharing innovative and creative teaching resources
  • Have experience of working with students who may have little experience of education and training (desirable).
  • Have knowledge of current curriculum and accreditation developments within Further Education and specific subject area(s).
  • Have the ability to teach creatively, adapting to the needs of a variety of learners and willing to explore new teaching and learning strategies.
  • Have good IT skills and willing to develop further.
  • Show accuracy and precision in written presentation.
  • The requirement of this role is to work across the whole prison estate, on all wings where education is delivered.

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 vocational courses, apprenticeships and Higher Education at our campuses in Milton Keynes. In addition, the College delivers employability and skills training programmes to 3,000 people in local community learning centres. For nearly 30 years, we have worked with offenders in both custody, and the wider community and currently work with 19 prisons across England; this includes 13 prisons, which make up the Long Term High Security Estate, and 6 category B, C & D men’s prisons.

Milton Keynes College is a committed safer recruitment employer in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education. We take extreme care in ensuring the safety and welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All positions therefore undergo a thorough on boarding process to include DBS. In addition, security clearance is required for all prison services positions.

Milton Keynes College has been officially recognised for its commitment and approach to equality, diversity and inclusion. It has been awarded the much sought-after Leaders in Diversity accreditation from the National Centre for Diversity. The award recognises the College’s clear ethos and values and a belief in the importance of diversity.

 

**Please note successful candidates are required to undertake National Offender Management Service (NOMS) Clearance before being able to commence with any role. For high security sites they are also required to obtain Counter Terrorism Check (CTC) in addition to NOMS. The process of obtaining clearance can take anywhere from 3 weeks upwards and the outcome is not controlled by the College or the individual prison**