King's Trust Team Lead/Assistant Team Lead

onlyFE; West Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 34,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous pension scheme

35 days annual leave

Cycle to work scheme

Support from Recruitment Team

Enhanced sick pay and leave

Job summary

Askham Bryan College invites applications for Team Leader roles within the King's Trust Team Programme across Leeds, Wakefield and Huddersfield. You will lead delivery, support learners and work within the Adult & Future Skills team to help young people realise potential.

You will recruit, mentor and supervise learners, coordinate activities, and foster a positive learning environment while ensuring safeguarding and inclusive practice across residential and workplace experiences.

Qualifications

• Experience working with young people.
• Strong communication and organisational skills.
• Ability to motivate and inspire learners.
• Experience within education, employability, youth work or community settings.
• Flexible approach to working including residential activities.

Responsibilities

• Recruit, enrol and support the retention of learners onto the King's Trust Team Programme (Team Leader responsibility).
• Deliver and support engaging personal development, employability, team-building and classroom-based learning activities.
• Provide one-to-one and small group support to learners, including those with additional learning, social, emotional or behavioural needs.
• Support learners throughout all aspects of the programme, including classroom sessions, residential experiences, community projects, volunteering activities, employer visits and work placements.
• Help learners develop confidence, resilience, communication, team-working and employability skills.
• Create and maintain a positive, inclusive and motivating learning environment that supports learner engagement and achievement.
• Promote positive behaviour, attendance, wellbeing and learner success.
• Monitor learner attendance, progress and achievement, maintaining accurate records and contributing to performance reporting.
• Build and maintain effective relationships with employers, referral partners, community organisations and other stakeholders to create meaningful opportunities for learners.
• Work collaboratively with colleagues and support services to ensure learners receive appropriate guidance, support and interventions.
• Contribute to safeguarding, learner welfare and wellbeing processes, ensuring a safe and supportive environment.
• Accompany and support learners during educational visits, residential activities, employer engagement events and other off-site learning opportunities, including overnight stays where required.
• Motivate, inspire and engage learners from diverse backgrounds to achieve positive outcomes and progression routes.

Job description

Team Leader / Assistant Team Leader – King's Trust Team Programme

Make a Difference. Change Lives.

Are you passionate about empowering young people to realise their potential and take positive steps towards their future? Askham Bryan College are seeking enthusiastic, inspirational and motivated individuals to lead and support on the delivery of our King's Trust Team Programme. With outreach sites across West Yorkshire, we are looking for Team Leaders and Assistant Team Leaders within Leeds, Wakefield and/or Huddersfield. This is a rewarding opportunity to work with young people aged 16–25, helping them build confidence, resilience, employability skills and aspirations through personal development, community projects, residential experiences, work placements and employer engagement activities.

If you thrive in a dynamic environment, enjoy making a tangible difference to people's lives and have experience working with young people, education, employability or personal development programmes, we would love to hear from you.

About The Role

As a Team Leader or Assistant Team Leader, you will play a key role in delivering the King's Trust Team Programme, supporting young people through a life-changing journey that helps them overcome barriers, build confidence, develop employability skills, and progress into employment, education, or training.

Working as part of the Adult & Future Skills team, you will create a positive, engaging and inclusive learning environment where learners can thrive. You will support the recruitment, retention and progression of learners, deliver inspiring activities, and provide individual and group support tailored to learners' needs.

The level of responsibility will be commensurate with the successful candidate's experience and role appointment.

Key Responsibilities

• Recruit, enrol and support the retention of learners onto the King's Trust Team Programme (Team Leader responsibility).
• Deliver and support engaging personal development, employability, team-building and classroom-based learning activities.
• Provide one-to-one and small group support to learners, including those with additional learning, social, emotional or behavioural needs.
• Support learners throughout all aspects of the programme, including classroom sessions, residential experiences, community projects, volunteering activities, employer visits and work placements.
• Help learners develop confidence, resilience, communication, team-working and employability skills.
• Create and maintain a positive, inclusive and motivating learning environment that supports learner engagement and achievement.
• Promote positive behaviour, attendance, wellbeing and learner success.
• Monitor learner attendance, progress and achievement, maintaining accurate records and contributing to performance reporting.
• Build and maintain effective relationships with employers, referral partners, community organisations and other stakeholders to create meaningful opportunities for learners.
• Work collaboratively with colleagues and support services to ensure learners receive appropriate guidance, support and interventions.
• Contribute to safeguarding, learner welfare and wellbeing processes, ensuring a safe and supportive environment.
• Accompany and support learners during educational visits, residential activities, employer engagement events and other off-site learning opportunities, including overnight stays where required.
• Motivate, inspire and engage learners from diverse backgrounds to achieve positive outcomes and progression routes.

Who We're Looking For

• Experience working with young people.
• Strong communication and organisational skills.
• Ability to motivate and inspire learners.
• Experience within education, employability, youth work or community settings.
• Flexible approach to working including residential activities.

Benefits Of Working With Askham Bryan College

• Generous pension scheme with generous employer contributions
• 35 days annual leave, plus 8 days bank holiday, plus Christmas shut down
• Cycle to work scheme
• Continuous support from our Recruitment and Employee Lifecycle Partner
• Enhanced sick pay, dependant leave and compassionate leave scheme
• Enhanced maternity/adoption pay

Safeguarding Statement

The College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff, volunteers and partners to share this commitment. The Governors and Staff at Askham Bryan College regard each learner as a unique individual and therefore seek to support learner development in ways, which will foster security, confidence and independence. We recognise that high self‑esteem, peer support, a secure College environment and clear lines of communication with trusted adults helps all young people and adults particularly those at risk or suffering abuse. These are regarded as central to the wellbeing of the individual and are therefore seen to be an intrinsic part of all aspects of the curriculum and ethos.

Specific Measures Relating To Pre-employment Checks

• We may undertake online searches on internet activity as part of our pre-recruitment checks.
• We ask applicants for details of any convictions and cautions, regardless of whether these have been deemed as "spent". It is a condition of employment that applicants provide these details.
• We undertake Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Checks for prospective employees. Please note that it is an offence to apply for a regulated role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity involving children or vulnerable adults.

Note on “regulated activity”: You are engaging in a regulated activity if you:

• Will be responsible, on a regular basis in a school or college, for teaching, training instructing, caring for or supervising children or vulnerable adults;
• Will be working on a regular basis in a specified establishment, such as a school, or in connection with the purposes of the establishment, where the work gives opportunity for contact with children or vulnerable adults; or
• Engage in intimate or personal care or healthcare or any overnight activity, even if this happens only once