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Curriculum Leader for Nuclear Skills Academy
Onsite
This role will be based on site, primarily in the named location.
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The University of Derby is a modern university with a modern outlook. Everything we do is driven by delivering excellence and opportunities for our students, our staff and our region.
We have some of the best university facilities in the UK and achieve outstanding results for our teaching and research and have been awarded Gold in the prestigious Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) 2023 - making it one of the top universities in the country recognised for its outstanding student experience and student outcomes.
Financially strong and seriously ambitious we offer our employees an inclusive culture that centres itself around staff wellbeing, where you can be confident you will receive all the help and encouragement you need to build a rewarding career with lots of opportunities to enhance your skills.
The Nuclear Skills Academy is the first of its kind and aims to sustain nuclear capability within the UK's submarines programme by creating a dedicated pipeline of talent at the start of their careers. Based in Derby at the iHub, the Nuclear Skills Academy is a partnership between the University of Derby and Rolls-Royce. The Nuclear Skills Academy team draws upon it's multidisciplinary and award winning skills to facilitate the delivery of apprentices across Levels 2-6.
Instructor Mentors play a pivotal role in the apprenticeship journey. They are at the front line, delivering sessions, assessing, and carrying out reviews to ensure apprentices gain the skills, knowledge, and behaviours they need to excel. In this role, you'll deliver high-quality, practical, and theoretical learning in Electrical Engineering, supporting apprentices from their first day through to successful completion.
Working closely with employers and colleagues, you'll design and deliver engaging, industry-relevant training across areas such as installation, maintenance, fault-finding, and testing. You'll make full use of the facilities at the Nuclear Skills Academy to provide a professional, hands-on learning experience that prepares apprentices for their roles and end-point assessments.
Interview Date:24th September 2025 (On-Site)
You'll be at the front line, delivering sessions, assessing, and carrying out reviews. You'll bring hands-on industry experience, academic excellence, and engaging teaching practice, while being a collaborative team player who contributes to the onward journey at the Nuclear Skills Academy. Apprentices will be at the centre of your work, with values and behaviours embedded from day one and the facilities and resources used to best effect.
You will value interdisciplinary collaboration, industry engagement, and work with stakeholders to deliver an outstanding experience. Ideally, you'll hold - or be willing to work towards - assessing and verifying qualifications, alongside a relevant Electrical Engineering qualification at Level 3 or above. Your mix of technical expertise and commitment to teaching will help shape the next generation of electrical engineering professionals.- To plan and deliver practical, technical vocational and associated theoretical learning activities for apprentices including training, support for learning and assessment using a variety of methods both on and off the job.
- Prepare suitable learning materials for a range of activities to develop the students' knowledge, skills and behaviours linked to relevant apprenticeship standards or frameworks.
- Demonstrate tasks and processes to individuals and groups.
- Provide instruction to the specified standards and provide feedback to students on progress through written and online methods, coaching for high expectations of progress and attainment.
- Provide individual and group mentoring for apprentices to ensure that apprenticeship candidates are selected appropriately and are matched to the needs of the employer.
- Supervise groups of apprentices undertaking knowledge and skill acquisition through scheduled off the job learning activities, project work or while on work placement.
- Assess knowledge and skills acquisition using a variety of assessment methods including individual coaching techniques to accelerate the learning of knowledge, skills and behaviours.
- Provide specific learning support to apprentices as required and ensure that learning support records are kept up to date.
- Work with groups of apprentices or individuals to prepare them for external qualification and end-point assessment according to the requirements of the relevant apprenticeship.
- Complete all associated internal, employer and external documentation and track the students' progress, including recording apprentice data on attendance and achievement using prescribed records systems, both manual and online.
- Ensure that any assessment carried out is completed to the standards laid down by the awarding body and the College Quality Assurance systems.
- Integrate the development of English and Mathematics skills, including their integration into broader learning activities linked to both on and off the job activities.
- Monitor attendance of apprentices at prescribed off the job learning activities, ensuring that records systems are updated as required and employers are kept informed.
- Ensure that apprentices are coached to behave in a professional manner at all times to a high standard of safety in the workplace and during off the job activities.
- Work with liaison and business development teams and independently to develop new business opportunities to increase employer engagement and apprentice uptake and progression.
- To undertake any other duties which may, from time to time, reasonably be required within the general level of responsibility.
- To comply with the requirements of Safeguarding Children and Vulnerable Adults, Prevent, Health and Safety, Quality and other University policies including Equal Opportunities, Risk Management and Equality and Diversity.
- Achieve personal and team targets for recruitment, progress, completion and achievement or apprentices within designated durations.
- To take an active role in the mentoring and progress of apprentices, providing a liaison between the apprentice, their employer and the off the job training provider.
- Take an active part in the College and University's Staff Development Programmes.
- Take an active role, when required, in all curriculum management activities, including open days, recruitment events and external moderation activities.
- To understand and comply with the University's Equality and Diversity Policy.
- To comply with copyright, software licensing legislation and related University procedures.
- To ensure that the College's quality assurance procedures are adhered to and additional action taken where necessary.
- Hold or be willing to undertake a Level 5 Teaching Qualification
- Level 2 qualifications (either in functional skills or GCSE A-C/4-9) in both English and Maths, or a willingness to achieve within an agreed timescale
- Relevant Electrical Engineering vocational qualification at Level 3 and Level 4 (or higher)
Experience - Demonstrable industrial or commercial experience within an engineering trade or business sector
- Experience of working with apprentices, delivering, coaching, and assessing against apprenticeship standards
- Experience of internal and external verification process
Skills, knowledge & abilities - Demonstrable evidence of ability to engage with learners to support high quality learning outcomes
- Highly developed communication skills
- Ability to use own initiative
- Ability to work effectively on your own and with a small team
- Well-developed administrative and organisational skills
- Ability to work flexibly within a team
Business requirements - A commitment to the principle of widening participation
- A commitment to continued professional development
- A commitment to College and University values and behaviours
- A willingness to work across College sites and externally
- Willingness and flexibility to travel and work between University and external sites in a cost effective and timely manner
- Ability to work evenings, weekends and during holiday periods
- Completed DBS check with child barred list
- Generous annual leave entitlement of 47 days inclusive of bank holidays and concessionary days (pro rata)
- Suite of holistic wellbeing benefits and support including family-friendly policies, generous sick pay provision and comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme
- Access to a variety of staff discounts at high street retailers
- Discounted onsite gym
- Cycle to Work scheme
- A flexible working environment
- A commitment to personal and professional development
For further information and informal enquiries regarding the role, please contact Paul White, Curriculum Leader for Nuclear Skills Academy via
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