Kings Trust Team Leader

Transforming Lives Through Learning

Due to exciting growth and expansion of our King's Trust Programme, we are looking for passionate, energetic, and inspiring individuals to join our King’s Trust Team Programme within the college.

£28,760 - £33,563 per annum

The King’s Trust Team Programme is a 12-week personal development programme designed to support young people aged 16–25 who may be:

• disengaged from education or employment
• lacking confidence or direction
• facing barriers to learning
• experiencing social, emotional, or personal challenges
• looking to improve their future opportunities

• team-building activities
• community projects
• employability and enterprise skills
• work experience opportunities
• residential experiences
• confidence and wellbeing development
• English and maths support
• progression planning

3x positions available

As part of the college team, you will work directly with young people within community and college settings to deliver engaging, supportive, and meaningful learning experiences.

You will motivate learners, build positive relationships, and help young people overcome barriers while supporting them towards education, employment, training, or volunteering opportunities.

This is an exciting opportunity to help shape and expand provision within the local community while being part of a supportive and forward‑thinking college environment.

• Planning for the weeks ahead – setting out what team members want to achieve and finding out how to get qualifications
• Planning for a week away/Residential
• Community projects
• Work placements
• Planning for the future (CVs, interview skills and job applications)
• Final presentation of the programme to an invited audience

• Deliver the required number of “Teams” which comply with the prescribed 12 week programme
• Recruit a range of young people across targeted groups
• Progress young people through the programme in line with College budgets, achieving a range of Performance Indicator targets, including the number of young people recruited; their retention on the programme and the qualifications and positive outcomes achieved
• Contribute to team review as complied by Princes Trust and College staff and ensure agreed actions to improve the quality of the programme are followed up
• Maintain accurate and up to date records, both paper and electronic, as required by the College and the Trust.
• Negotiate residential and community project activities with local providers under the guidance of the Head of Department
• Assess, verify and report student achievement through the College Exams department.
• Implement action plans to address issues identified in Team Review
• Attend all necessary internal/external training courses/ management and steering group meetings as required
• Carry out related duties as may be reasonably required by the College and by the Trust.

• passionate about transforming lives
• committed to inclusion and equality of opportunity
• positive, adaptable, and resilient
• able to inspire and motivate young people
• experienced in working with young people or vulnerable learners
• confident delivering group activities and community projects
• strong communicators with excellent interpersonal skills
• organised and able to work independently and as part of a team
• Experience with in education, youth work, employability, SEND, community work, coaching, or mentoring would be highly valued.

Salary of between £28,760 - £33,563 per annum based upon a combination of the skills, knowledge and experience that you can bring to the role.

• Enhanced Pension contributions scheme with SYPA
• Annual leave - 30 Days (222 hours) + 8 Bank Holidays (59.2 hours) - this includes a discretionary Christmas closure period
• Health and wellbeing, we offer
• Employee assistance programme through Bupa
• Occupational Health through PAM
• Free eye tests for VDU users
• Free Parking is available at the majority of our campuses

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