You’ll be part of a supportive team which has your wellbeing and professional development at heart. There’s no greater job satisfaction than seeing the difference you make every day to the lives of children and young people.

We Offer

• JNC instructor pay scale, alongside teachers’ terms and conditions plus additional allowances
• Funding for you to study for relevant qualifications
• Ongoing training opportunities for you to build the skills you need to do your best for the young people in your care
• A clear career path for the right candidates through the team structure, with potential for progression
• A range of staff benefits to help you boost your wellbeing and make your money go further
• Membership of the Teachers’ Pension Scheme

How To Apply

Before applying please read the job description and employee specification carefully. To apply you should submit:

• a Leeds City Council application form
• a supporting statement (maximum 1 page) explaining your suitability for the role

Your supporting statement must demonstrate that your skills, knowledge and experience meet the requirements in the job description and employee specification. Think about your transferable skills, competencies and attributes and explain how these qualify you for the position.

Email your application form and supporting statement to adelbeck.admin@leeds.gov.uk. You may also submit a CV to support your application should wish to.

To arrange an informal chat about the role please call our main reception on 0113 378 3701 or email adelbeck.admin@leeds.gov.uk.

A Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check against the Children’s or Adults’ barred list as applicable will be carried out on preferred candidates. Read our recruitment of ex-offenders policy.

We welcome applications from everyone and actively seek a diverse range of applicants from all backgrounds and cultures. We particularly encourage applications from, but not limited to, women, carers, veterans as well as LGBT+, ethnically diverse, disabled and care experienced people.

This role is based in the UK. Home Office guidance states that candidates must evidence their right to work in the UK prior to commencing employment, either as a UK or Irish citizen, under the EU Settlement scheme or having secured any other relevant work visa.

If you do not have the right to work in the UK, you must consider your own eligibility for sponsorship for a particular role through the Skilled Worker visa route before applying. To be eligible for sponsorship you'll usually need to be paid the standard salary rate of at least £41,700 per year or meet one of the other eligibility criteria. Ensure you are eligible before applying.

Job Description

Job Purpose:

Adel Beck

All staff are required to support the Home’s main purpose of encouraging and enabling children and young people to develop attitudinally, behaviourally, educationally and emotionally in order that they may deliver positive contributions to their families, society and their local communities whilst reducing offending, resulting in the decrease in victims of youth crime. To create and maintain a customer focused attitude and approach at all times that promotes positive relationships and generates a culture of openness and trust. To deliver efficient, effective and quality services by way of flexible working. To work together with colleagues from all other service areas within the home to provide and maintain a safe and secure living and learning environment that promotes the safety and welfare of children and young people in which they can prosper, develop and achieve. To foster, maintain and support pro-social behaviour, a restorative and solution focussed approach with, children, young people and colleagues.

Role:

To take responsibility to give instruction and learning in vocational training in Motor Vehicles within the Home’s Education facility, ensuring a high quality of training that meets with Education Standards, Children’s Homes regulations, Children’s Homes National Minimum Standards and the Youth Justice Standards and requirements.

Responsibilities

• Set high expectations which inspire, motivate and challenge pupils.

  • Establish a safe and stimulating environment for pupils, rooted in mutual respect.
  • Set goals that stretch and challenge pupils of all backgrounds, abilities, and dispositions.
  • Demonstrate consistently the positive attitudes, values and behaviour which are expected of self and pupils.

• Promote good progress and outcomes by pupils.

  • Be accountable for pupils’ attainment, progress, and outcomes.
  • Plan and deliver training to build on pupils' capabilities and prior knowledge.
  • Guide pupils to reflect on the progress they have made and their emerging needs.
  • Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of how pupils learn and how this impacts on training.
  • Encourage pupils to take a responsible and conscientious attitude to their own work and study.

• Demonstrate good subject and vocational training curriculum knowledge.

  • Have a secure knowledge of the relevant subject(s) and vocational training areas in which to foster and maintain pupils’ interest and address misunderstandings.
  • Demonstrate a critical understanding of developments in the subject(s) and vocational training areas and promote the value of learning.
  • Demonstrate an understanding of and take responsibility for promoting high standards of literacy, articulacy and the correct use of standard English, whatever the instructor’s specialist subject(s).

• Plan and instruct well-structured lessons.

  • Impart knowledge and develop understanding through effective use of lesson time.
  • Promote a love of learning and intellectual curiosity.
  • Set homework and plan other out-of-class activities to consolidate and extend the knowledge, learning and understanding pupils have acquired.
  • Reflect systematically on the effectiveness of lessons and approaches to instructing and learning.
  • Contribute to the design and provision of an engaging vocational training curriculum within the relevant subject area(s).

• Adapt delivery to respond to the strengths and needs of all pupils.

  • Know when and how to differentiate appropriately, using approaches which enable pupils to be taught and to learn effectively.
  • Have a secure understanding of how a range of factors can inhibit pupils’ ability to learn and how best to overcome these.
  • Demonstrate an awareness of the physical, social and intellectual development of pupils, and know how to adapt subject and vocational training delivery to support pupils’ education at different stages of development.
  • Have a clear understanding of the needs of all pupils, including those with special educational needs; those of high ability; those with English as an additional language; those with disabilities; and be able to use and evaluate a variety of approaches to engage and support them.

• Make accurate and productive use of assessment.

  • Know and