Programme Manager - Functional Skills - HMYOI Aylesbury
- Recruiter
- Milton Keynes College
- Location
- Aylesbury
- Salary
- 28373.00 - 33654.00 GBP Annual
- Posted
- 29 Sep 2016
- Closes
- 13 Oct 2016
- Sectors
- Travel & Tourism
- Contract Type
- Contract
- Hours
- Full Time
Milton Keynes College are working in partnership with HMYOI Aylesbury to put education at the heart of the prison system.
Are you an outstanding English or Maths Tutor/ Lecturer looking to gain experience in a management role? Are you looking for a new challenge and want to be part of an innovative team who are shaping and driving education?
We have a vacancy opportunity for a functional skills programme manager to join our team on a contract or secondment basis.
HMYOI Aylesbury is a prison housing young prisoners aged 18-21, all serving long sentences. The Education Department works closely with our prison colleagues to deliver medium to long courses that help prepare learners for employment upon release.
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. If you believe that you can inspire and reach challenging young prisoners, then we would like to hear from you!
As a successful candidate you will have:
- A degree or equivalent qualification in English or Maths subject.
- A teaching qualification (QTLS as appropriate).
- Assessor/Verifier Awards (desirable).
- Teaching/training experience English and/or Maths, up-to-date knowledge of these subject areas.
- Understanding of the necessary employability skills required in the current UK economy.
- Evidence of providing high quality effective programmes leading to outstanding success.
- Experience of data analysis.
- Experience of identifying, developing and sharing resources focused on teaching and learning.
- Experience of working with students who may have little experience of education and training (desirable).
- Knowledge of current relevant initiatives within the Offender Learning.
- requirement of this role is to work across the whole prison estate, on all wings where education is delivered.
Location: HMYOI Aylesbury
Hours: 37 hours per week,3 months contract (secondment opportunity for internal applicants)
Salary: GBP28,373 - GBP33,654 per annum, pro rata
Closing Date: 12 th October 2016
When applying for this role, please reference AoC Jobs as your application source when asked.
More about the rewards
As well as having 35 flexible days holiday per year pro rata you will also get 3 additional days to be taken over Christmas and of course all of the bank holidays. We offer a car allowance scheme "Just add fuel", but if you prefer a more environmentally friendly approach to travel we also offer a cycle to work scheme. As part of Milton Keynes College you are entitled to apply for an NUS student discount card with offers in plenty of local restaurants and high street shops. Child care vouchers are available and of course the option of being part of Teachers Pension Scheme. For more about our benefits please visit the MK College website.
More about the College
Milton Keynes College deliver an exciting and varied curriculum in 28 of Her Majesty's Prisons and Young Offenders Institutes. We also have a successful Employment Academy model which works with employers and stakeholders to enhance our learners' chances of re-entering society successfully, to find employment upon release and to live fulfilling lives. The curriculum we offer is designed taking into account both the needs of the learner, external stakeholders and the local employment needs. We are proud of supporting our learners' successfully through education and 'Through the Gate'.