Apprenticeship Trainer - Automotive

We're seeking a 'Trainer – Apprenticeship in Automotive' to support our Apprenticeship programme.

• Transfer your expertise to apprentices in classroom, workshop, and garage settings to enhance their employability and technical skills.
• Collaborate with employers to incorporate additional training and qualifications into apprentices' training plans, enhancing their workplace contributions.
• Leverage your industry passion and experience to create new training courses tailored to local industry needs.
• Plan and deliver high‑quality teaching in the subject areas required, using up‑to‑date vocational knowledge.
• Plan and deliver high‑quality teaching with due recognition of the relevant apprenticeship standards, syllabus, qualification and course specifications, given the resources available and within the agreed and approved timetable.
• Satisfy the administrative requirements of the College and examining/validating bodies; including internal verification requirements.
• Support students to develop a growth mind‑set and provide constructive and complete 1:1 sessions with students and setting of targets.

• Level 3 qualification in a relevant area, or a degree‑level qualification in a relevant subject area, or equivalent industry experience.
• Teaching qualification, or willingness to obtain a designated teaching qualification within a specified time.
• Maths and English qualification to Level 2 or higher.
• Up‑to‑date, relevant industry or professional experience.
• An in‑depth and practical knowledge of the relevant subject.
• Recent, successful professional experience in the relevant occupations and industry. As industry professionals, we offer students industry experience and insight and support our unqualified teachers to learn “on the job”. You will be given full support throughout your development to fully qualified teacher status. Whilst employed you would be enrolled onto the Level 3 Award in Education and Training. After completion you can choose to move onto our Level 5 Diploma in Education and Training qualification – a great way for experienced professionals to achieve a recognised teaching qualification whilst in employment.

We are a Disability Confident employer and will offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. In certain recruitment situations such as high‑volume, seasonal and high‑peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non‑disabled people.

For more details please go to our policy page.

Buckinghamshire College Group is a Further Education college with three campuses located in Aylesbury, Amersham and Wycombe. We are proud to be a skills‑based college supporting over 5,000 learners each year to achieve their study and career goals and play a pivotal role in the Buckinghamshire community, working with a wide range of employers for example, Pinewood Studios, NHS Trusts and Flannery Plant Hire.

As a member of our team, you will have an unwavering passion for learning and for supporting students and staff to achieve more than they ever thought possible – while being innovative and comfortable with experimentation of new ideas and approaches including use of digital tools to enhance student engagement. We call this the Bucks College Factor! If you have the Bucks College Factor, this sounds like a role for you and Buckinghamshire College Group sounds like a place you'd like to be part of, then we'd love to hear from you.

The College actively engages with the Education & Training Foundation's Taking Teaching Further scheme to recruit industry professionals to teach within Further Education.

We will encourage you to develop new skills and expand your opportunities within the College. We are also flexible and accommodating, allowing you to be as productive as possible.

• Pension scheme – TPS (Teacher Pension Scheme)
• Generous annual leave entitlement plus Bank Holidays & additional leave purchase scheme
• Access to free training & continuous professional development
• A bespoke package of intensive induction and probation support
• Flexible working policy and a commitment to employee wellbeing
• Discounts in the Aylesbury Day Nursery & Aylesbury Hair & Beauty (HAB) Salon
• 24/7 access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
• Cycle to work and local business employee corporate discount schemes