Employability Trainer Opportunity at Oaklands

An exciting opportunity has arisen at Oaklands for a passionate and professional Employability Trainer to deliver outstanding, innovative teaching and support that empowers learners to take the next step in their career journey.

The Oaklands Education Group is a vibrant and diverse learning-centred community, providing transformational education for over 100 years. Oaklands is more than just a college—it is well positioned to be internationally known, nationally recognised, regionally relevant, and locally significant.

As we grow our portfolio to meet global economic and social needs, we are seeking a dynamic Employability & Skills Needs Trainer to play a vital role in our journey.

Role Overview

We are looking for a motivated and learner-focused Employability & Skills Needs Trainer to join our team and play a crucial role in preparing learners for the world of work. In this position, you will:

• Deliver Employability & Local Skills Needs training across a range of programmes
• Plan and deliver engaging, activity-based lessons that stretch and challenge learners
• Set and monitor individual learner targets to ensure meaningful progression
• Provide strong pathways into employment, with local skills needs outcomes prioritised
• Assessing learner needs and creating tailored development plans
• Supporting learners to achieve outcomes such as employment, apprenticeships, qualifications, and other progression routes
• Managing learner data, enrolment, and support needs efficiently and accurately

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver courses as nominated by the Manager and carry out all associated course administration
• Complete learner registers accurately and on time
• Plan and deliver functional skills as an embedded part of the training programme
• Assess clients’ needs and set robust plans and targets to meet their needs on an individual basis
• Achieve outcomes for clients that provide a wide range of benefits including jobs, apprenticeships, qualifications and other progression routes
• Prepare learners for their subsequent next steps in the world of work
• Manage data for learners including initial assessment, enrolment, and daily registration and ensure all requests for ALS & support needs are processed efficiently
• Manage individual client targets, always ensuring that clients are being stretched and challenged to ensure their onward progression
• Deliver learning programmes flexibly across the Hertfordshire region
• Produce schemes of work and lesson plans and prepare teaching materials/resources for all teaching
• Mark and assess student work promptly, accurately and objectively
• Be responsible for learner progress, including setting and monitoring of learner targets
• Comply with quality standards including undertaking internal verification work
• Prepare reports for external parties, for example, parents, employers, training agencies
• Contribute to and attend meetings, events and working parties as requested
• Ensure statistics for learner attendance and achievement are monitored and acted upon when necessary