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We are seeking an enthusiastic and dedicated Learning Facilitator to join our dynamic teaching and learning team. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in delivering high-quality, career-focused education while supporting students in their academic and personal development. You will work closely with academic staff, supporting delivery across workshops, lessons, and project-based sessions to enhance the learning experience and contribute to the achievement of the college’s mission.

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We are seeking an enthusiastic and dedicated Learning Facilitator to join our dynamic teaching and learning team. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in delivering high-quality, career-focused education while supporting students in their academic and personal development.

You will work closely with academic staff, supporting delivery across workshops, lessons, and project-based sessions to enhance the learning experience and contribute to the achievement of the college’s mission.

Duties and Responsibilities

  • Deliver and support engaging learning experiences across lessons, workshops, and group sessions.
  • Champion project-based learning, helping students build practical and career-relevant skills.
  • Support academic progress by helping students set and monitor targets, compile evidence for assessment, and engage actively in their own learning.
  • Prepare and maintain learning environments, ensuring resources and materials are available, functional, and fit for purpose.
  • Collaborate with academic staff, employers, and support teams to ensure the highest standards are met across the curriculum.

You will also play a key role in helping students prepare for employment or further study, ensuring sessions reflect industry expectations and fostering strong connections with local employers.

Job Requirements

Essential:

  • A-level qualification in a relevant subject.
  • Strong ICT skills and a high standard of literacy and numeracy.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Ability to motivate, support, and connect with young people.
  • High levels of initiative, time management, and attention to detail.
  • A collaborative, flexible, and reflective approach to supporting learning.

Desirable:

  • A degree in a relevant subject area.
  • Teaching qualification (e.g., PGCE).
  • Relevant industry/professional experience.
  • Experience working in further education or employer-engaged learning.
  • Participation in curriculum development or leadership responsibilities

The right candidate will have:

  • High standards of communication and interpersonal skills.
  • The ability to work as a team.
  • A strong attention to detail.
  • The ability to work towards deadlines.
  • The ability to motivate both students and your peers.
  • Highly motivated and enthusiastic.
  • Excellent attendance and punctuality.
  • Experience innovating to deliver the curriculum

Why choose us?

Our strategy is to create a Career Focused, Digital Learning environment, ensuring that the learner experience and our relationship within our community, local and regional employers, are at the heart of everything we do. We are proud to be selected as finalists for the AoC Beacon awards for effective use of digital Technology in FE. Providing a high achieving, focused learning environment allowing our students to achieve the grades they need for higher educations, or the skills and aptitude required to secure a suitable role in their chosen career. Our college is set in the leafy suburbs of Essex, with easy access to surrounding areas and amenities, we are based in a well-connected location both by road and rail.

What we offer:

  • A dedicated and friendly team of professionals who are keen to develop and learn
  • Excellent pension provision
  • Annual Staff Awards
  • CPD days - opportunities to grow and development through mentorship and coaching
  • Free onsite parking
  • Staff appreciation days
  • Eye care vouchers
  • Onsite Starbucks & Restaurant
  • Well-being days & activities
  • Electric Vehicle Scheme*
  • Discounted gym membership
  • Hybrid Working available
  • Fully immersive teaching rooms allow simultaneous online teaching at multiple locations
  • Free Employee Assistance Programme available 24/7, 365 days offering legal & financial advice, as well as general support & guidance

* subject to terms & conditions

This role is considered exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. Which means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.  It is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.

Shortlisted candidates will be required to complete a self-declaration of their criminal record or information that would make them unsuitable to work with children. Self-declaration is subject to Ministry of Justice guidance on the disclosure of criminal records, further information can be found on GOV UK

USP College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults, we therefore expect all staff to share this commitment. The successful applicant will be required to undertake an enhanced disclosure via the Disclosure and Barring Service, and any other checks that the role requires to ascertain suitability for working with children and/or vulnerable adults, which may include online searches.

We will hold and process any personal data, including sensitive (special category) personal data, relating to you in accordance with our legal obligations, in the manner set out in the Privacy Notice for staff and in accordance with our Data Protection Policy, which is set out on the College’s website, found here. You should familiarise yourself with our Data Protection Policy (and all other subsidiary policies to it) and comply with them at all times. Neither the Privacy Notice for Staff nor those policies form a part of your contract of employment.