Job Title: Variable Hours Lecturer: Teaching Generalist with Personal and Social Development - Fixed Term
Type of Vacancy: Teaching
Subject Area: Skills for Life
Type of Employment: Part Time
Location: HMP Bedford
Salary Range: £17,316 - £26,218, pro rata
Closing Date: 17/03/2010
Interview Date: TBC

Status: Fixed term maternity cover contract (until March 2011 initially)

Hours: 12 hours per week, 42 weeks per year (Plus additional holiday cover)

Milton Keynes College is a leading Further Education College providing vocational, academic, professional and higher education courses across four Milton Keynes based campuses. We also deliver offender learning programmes at various prisons and young offenders units. We offer careers in teaching, assessing, management, student and staff support. We are looking for talented people to share in our future and join our professional workforce of 1,300 employees.

HMP Bedford is a category B prison, with a maximum capacity of 506 males over 18 years of age. As part of Milton Keynes College's expansion in Offender Learning we require skilled professionals for various positions. We are looking for a talented individual to deliver learner success through effective teaching and delivery on our programmes.

As the PSD Variable Hours Lecturer you will deliver employability and personal/social development skills to adult offenders at Bedford. You will use your initiative and creativeness to engage and challenge students across the whole range of programmes. We would welcome applications from individuals who could offer either Personal and Social Development skills or employability skills.

As the successful candidate you will:

• Have relevant experience within a personal, social development or employability environment.
• Have proven experience within a teaching or training position, ideally teaching entry level to Level 2 programmes.
• Hold a minimum of a Level 4 qualification, within a personal/social development or employability discipline.
• Ideally hold a recognised teaching qualification (DTTLS, PGCE, Cert Ed).
• Ideally hold relevant assessor/verifier awards (A1, V1, D32, D33).
• Have well developed interpersonal skills in relating to prison staff and in working with students who may have little experience of education and training.
• Have the ability to work as part of a team and on their own initiative.
• Be sensitive to the complexities of prisons as closed institutions and have the ability to work positively within the inherent restraints.