Specialist Trainer (Fabrication & Welding)

Number of Vacancies

1

Time Type

Full time

Worker Type

Regular

Proposed Interview Date

Thursday, October 29, 2026

Hours of Work

37

Hiring Manager

Rachel David

Contact Number

01482 614367

Job Description Summary

This is a full time, permanent position.

Should you require further details of the role please contact Rachel David on 01482 615 270 for an informal discussion.

Hull Training and Adult Education, part of Hull City Council, is one of the largest providers of vocational training and further education in the region with an excellent reputation for delivering quality courses to industry.

In line with a planned move into a new bespoke city centre training facility in late 2026 we are now seeking a Specialist Tutor to oversee our Fabrication & Welding curriculum. This individual will have the autonomy to design and deliver a brand-new curriculum and contribute to meeting planned growth targets for the engineering department.

We are seeking an inspiring and enthusiastic individual with relevant fabrication and welding vocational experience and qualifications who can make a significant contribution to the quality of our provision. Experience of apprenticeship standards and knowledge of Dfe funded delivery would be an advantage, as would teacher training and/or assessing qualifications.

You will be expected to deliver both practical and theory-based sessions to students as well as carry out work-based visits to employers so good communication skills and an ability to motivate others is essential. You will also be expected to effectively monitor and track the progress of learners, identify and implement extra support where needed and proactively encourage all learners to successfully achieve their qualifications.

If the postholder requires a Standard or Enhanced DBS disclosure the candidate is required to declare full details of everything on their criminal record unless the conviction/s and/or caution/s are considered “protected” in line with filtering rules for DBS checks.

ROLE AND PURPOSE

Supports the Centre manager and Deputy Head of service lead manager in implementing the learning and development approach. Working in Hull training Adult Education (HTAE) enabling services in the delivery of City workforce development and local employers upskilling targets to achieve business plans for their business.

Working with HTAE Executive Board, Elected Members, Assistant Director and Head of Service at all levels across the partnership to ensure the learning creates wider opportunities for the organisational upskilling and underpins the achievement of the City Economic Plan and LSIP targets.

The post holder will be directly responsible for the effective coaching, teaching, planning and organising of occupational skills training to apprenticeship standards and technical certificates as needed, assessing and reviewing learner’s progress and maximising the use of resources.

Responsible for their own teaching, assessment and quality of the engineering programmes delivered at the engineering centre. Developing and providing curriculum that meets the requirements of local people, companies, commerce and industry.

The post holder will provide individualised high quality careers education information advice and guidance (CEIAG) to existing and future cohorts internally and externally engaging learners and employers whilst promoting the service’s engineering provision. The post holder will ensure that effective Gatsby benchmarks are implemented within their curriculum plans.

The post holder will be expected to deliver high quality Apprenticeship standards and will be responsible for the coaching and delivery to learners to achieve skills, behaviours, and knowledge to pass their apprenticeship to a distinction level wherever possible.

The postholder will be responsible for the health & safety of their designated workshops and individual work-based section 10 assessments, ensuring all health & safety documentation including risk assessments and COSHH data sheets are in place and kept up to date.

The post holder will maintain a minimum funded learner caseload, in line with policy and to be agreed with the line manager based on the particular sector subject area(s), the type of employment placement and geographical spread of students.

This role will also be required to undertake service Internal Verification duties.

To carry out the role, ensuring service standards performance indicators, and statutory requirements are met.

Responsible for maintaining all electronic and paper records in accordance with service standards and ESFA contract requirements.

To support the continual improvement cycle by ensuring all information requests from quality team are satisfied in a timely manner and records are maintained to meet the required standards as per ESFA contract expectations.

The post holder will be responsible for recording outcomes, evaluating activities and meeting project targets and deadlines.

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES:

1. To promote and safeguard the welfare of children, young people and/or vulnerable adults (Service Area to include where appropriate)

2. Customer Focus –Undertakes the identification of learning needs and responsible for designing, developing, and implementing learning resources to develop programme delivery and maximise learner performance and achievement.Regularly seeks feedback through the learner voice process and ensures that any issues relating to practice are dealt with promptly ultimately resulting in an improved service offer. Support the Centre Manager to use learner feedback to inform the self assessment process and service improvement.Facilitates effective and responsive engagement with people who use the service through the timely return of assessed / marked work to ensure learners continually progress and relationships are effective.Ensure that there are strong links (and communication flows in both directions) between the organisation and its employer stakeholder work streams to the ‘workshop and work-based training so that the key learning from theoretical practice and work-based assessments (including conducting and maintaining reviews) are communicated to the centre manager. As a member of the training team- the postholder will input into the development of centre training strategy and apprenticeship training programme to ensure these meet the priorities of the service and the needs of the employers.

3. Performance Management – High impact on the outcomes for HTAE young people and adults in terms of improving performance through effective learning and development. Consequential political and legislative risks associated with not achieving the required standards in (Ofsted, FATE, and awarding bodies) inspections are dealt with.Leads the evaluation of learning programmes to ensure impact of learning is measured effectivly. Produces qualititive and quantitive reports to the organisation providing recommendations when required and positively contribute to service improvement.Delivering learning, training, coaching and assessment on work-related programmes to meet the needs of employers and learners and to the standards set by awarding bodies or end point assessment organisations.Develop and facilitate the positive engagement of learners by upholding high expectations for attendance, behaviour, timekeeping and conduct, setting challenging objectives for self and apprentices. Responsible for the quality and timeliness of work. To ensure changes in ESFA funding rules are implemented effectively and the submission of all paperwork complies with ESFA funding rules. To ensure the consistent application of operational practice and policy across the team.To bring to the Centre Managers attention any areas of concern that may impact on service performance, particularly in respect of learners and where funding may be affected and work in a timely and appropriate way to resolve concerns/