Apprentice Skills Coach in Early Years – 0.3 FTE

We’re looking for a permanent Apprentice Skills Coach (Assessor) in Early Years, come and join us on our journey to outstanding.

As a support colleague you’ll go into the Greater Manchester Pension scheme with a generous employer contribution and enjoy some really great benefit’s, for example, Costa Coffee on site, Free on site Gym at Beaufort Road, onsite bakery products at Tameside One, The Restaurant at Tameside One, to name but a few. Of course we offer retail discounts, a cycle to work scheme, a great holiday allowance of 33 days which don’t include bank holidays or efficiency days at Christmas, a cash health care plan and a savings club via the Manchester Credit Union.

Here’s the standard bit: - You will deliver training, assessing and quality assuring work-based learning programmes, in line with the college’s Apprenticeship Strategy. Working towards the growth of high quality, employer focused provision that maximises the opportunities for learners to achieve and progress into sustained employment.

As a highly engaged and motivated Apprentice Skills Coach (Assessor), you will have a genuine desire to improve the life chances of our learners whilst being a strong experienced team player with excellent communication skills.

What you’ll need: - it is essential that you have substantial relevant occupational experience along with experience of dealing with the training needs of learners through a range of methodologies. Who is enthusiastic, resilient and are a highly motivated individual with Literacy and Numeracy to at least Level 2, Assessor qualifications (A1, TAQA, D32), and NVQ Level 3 in Plumbing.

About us: - Tameside College has an excellent reputation backed up with a ‘good’ Ofsted rating. This is a real opportunity for you to make a difference in people’s lives.

Tameside College in Ashton-Under-Lyne Greater Manchester, is a diverse and vibrant further education college that offers a wide range of course including A level and advanced level vocational study programmes, Apprenticeships and adult courses up to degree Level. We aim to give all our students an exceptional experience.

Believing in excellence and we back that up with high expectations, a superb working environment (as part of the Vision Tameside £100 million+ accommodation strategy) and outstanding teaching. We also believe that attending college is about more than achieving a qualification, important though that is. This is why we aim to give learners every opportunity to develop their full potential in a supportive and friendly environment.

Tameside College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all learners and expects all staff to share this commitment. Employment at Tameside College is subject to an Enhanced DBS (Disclosure & Barring Service) Check via the Disclosure and Barring Service and any post in regulated activity will also be subject to an additional barred list check. Tameside College will meet the costs associated with this.

Please note Keeping Children Safe in Education 2025 guidance requires us to carry out an online search as part of our due diligence on shortlisted candidates. This is to enables us to identify any incidents or issues which we might want to explore at interview with you. Once shortlisting has taken place, this search will be carried out for all candidates who are invited to attend an interview.

Please note that due to the volume of applications we receive we are unfortunately not able to respond to each applicant. If you have not been called for interview within 3 weeks of the closing date, you should assume that on this occasion your application has been unsuccessful.

Recruitment Agencies: We are not utilising the service of recruitment agencies for this vacancy and will accept direct applications only. Unsolicited CV’s will be treated as a gift. We will not be subject to or liable under your terms and conditions for agency fees.