Travel and Tourism Programme Tutor

Join Our Journey at Oldham College as a Programme Tutor - Travel & Tourism

Salary: £31,061 to £35,997 per annum + excellent benefits

Why Choose Oldham College?

At Oldham College, we offer more than just a competitive salary. As part of our team, you'll enjoy a host of exceptional benefits:

• Generous Pension Scheme
• Fantastic Staff Benefits and Rewards Platform
• Generous Holiday Entitlement
• Employee Assistance Scheme
• Enhanced Maternity/Paternity Provision
• Staff Development Days/Week (Jan, July, Aug)
• Free Confidential Counselling Service
• Staff Recognition Awards
• Car Scheme
• Subsidised Car Parking
• On-site Day Nursery
• On-site Hair and Beauty Salon 

About the Role:

A fantastic opportunity to join an outstanding college!

Do you have experience in the travel and tourism industry, such as working as Cabin Crew, in Aviation, as a Tour Rep, or in a travel agency? Maybe Hotel experience or as a Tour operator? We're seeking a high-calibre Programme Tutor in Travel & Tourism to join our Retail and Commercial Faculty. This role involves approximately 24 hours of teaching per week and is a vital role for our future plans.

As well as teaching, other responsibilities include:

Managing learner attendance, assessment, progress tracking, and setting SMART targets

Engaging with employers and supporting learner personal development, behaviors, and welfare

Key Responsibilities:

• Deliver the new NCFE programme for Travel and Tourism
• Promote excellence in teaching, learning, and assessment
• Organize teaching and learning for specific learner groups
• Provide excellent customer service both internally and externally
• Set value-adding targets for learners to achieve their full potential 

What We're Looking For:

To succeed as a Programme Tutor in Travel and Tourism, you will need:

• Relevant industry experience and a qualification in Travel and Tourism
• A recognised teaching qualification and previous classroom experience
• Commitment to personal CPD
• Knowledge of UK awarding bodies for Travel and Tourism and experience in FE
• Ability to challenge and inspire learners to achieve their full potential

The right individual will join a supportive faculty team that includes other curriculum areas, to secure high quality curriculum delivery and progression pathways as well as develop a flexible delivery model to suite both full time and part time learners, on site and off site/on-line learning.

About the College:

Oldham College is a great career choice for ambitious professionals. With a “good” Ofsted rating, one of the best apprenticeship programmes in the region, excellent 16-18 results and truly outstanding GCSE English results, we are already a high performer.

But we want to deliver much more than this. Our ambition is to be “The Best Place to Learn and Work” and we have a clear Strategic Plan which sets out what this means and what we will do to deliver it. We will keep on improving and innovating, and we are investing in new provision, new facilities, and new technology; including our state-of-the-art clinical simulation suite.

We expect a lot from you, so we want ambitious, open minded candidates, who are ready to give their best. But we give a lot in return, from training to pensions, our own benefits package, and one of the best and most helpful group of colleagues you could ever wish to meet.  

The role will require you to embed and work to the college’s values; working with Integrity, having Ambition to help our learners succeed and being Inclusive to learners and colleagues alike.

At Oldham College, our mission is to welcome everyone and create inclusive teams. We encourage everyone to join us, as we create a workforce that is as diverse as our wonderful student community. We do monitor responses to our diversity questions in our application, to ensure that we can continue to build a workforce that is representative of the community that we serve.

We understand that not everyone works to the same timetable, and offer a range of flexible working options, including flexible start and finish times, part-time, term-time only or hybrid options, where the role permits.

We will do everything we can to support you during your application. If you need us to make any adjustments to our recruitment process, contact our HR team who will be happy to advise.

If your application is successful, your personal data may be used for a pre-employment screening check by a third party as permitted by applicable law. Depending on the vacancy and applicable laws, a pre-employment screening could include, employment history, education and other information (such as media information) that may be necessary for determining your qualifications and suitability for the role.

Oldham College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment.

Any appointments will be subject to enhanced DBS checks and a check of the DfE Barred List.

Further details including a Person Specification are included within the attached Job Description.

This role is exempt from the Rehabilitation Act 1974. It is an offence to apply for the role if the applicant is barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children and vulnerable adults.