Solihull, England, United Kingdom
Carpentry Lecturer with Head of Department for Construction and Motor Vehicle Apprenticeships experience. An achievement driven, self-motivated professional with a successful background in construction both in education and industry. An in depth knowledge of teaching, assessment, quality assurance and team management. A proven track record of delivering excellent teaching to full time employees and apprentices in wood trades and construction, developing excellent relationships with both the learner and employer. Action orientated and high performing individual at ease with high levels of responsibility who is adept at managing, coaching and developing staff and students. Key Skills Overview • Most recently worked as an agency lecturer, assessor and IQA, teaching theory and practical at all levels across multiple awarding bodies. • Financial management and budget planning for the construction apprenticeship department. • Staff and team management. Can work under pressure to tight challenging deadlines with minimum supervision. • Excellent interpersonal skills developed through working with external stakeholders within apprenticeships, including awarding bodies and employers. • A1 and V1 assessing and internal verification qualifications gained to ensure quality assurance process. • Successful achievement of City and Guilds NVQ 3 Advanced Craft Carpentry and Joinery. • Full teaching qualification, FENTO 3, with 12 years lecturing and assessing experience in carpentry and construction. • HND and BA (Hons) management qualifications.
● Delivering practical and theoretical elements of construction diplomas, NVQ’s and the new Standards to ages 14 - 19 and 19+ ● Conducted IQA role remotely during Coronavirus lockdown across Warwickshire Colleges multiple campuses for Carpentry, Brickwork and Maintenance Operations. ● Extensive assessment duties over a range of qualifications and levels, monitoring students progress by completing progress reports ensuring students and apprentices kept on track towards a timely completion.
● Teaching full time Maintenance Operations students and part time adult evening carpentry students. ● Extensive assessment duties over a range of qualifications and levels, conducting both formative and summative quality assurance. ● Monitoring students progress by completing progress reports, ensuring students kept on track, ultimately for a timely completion. ● Worked in close connection with parents, awarding bodies and colleagues to deal with sensitive and confidential situations.
● Teaching to full time students and NVQ apprentices on both framework and the new apprenticeship standard. ● Extensive assessment duties over a range of qualifications and levels. Conducting both formative and summative quality assurance. ● Monitoring student’s progress by producing progress reports, ensuring the student completes in a timely manner. ● Excellent track record for student achievement and retention. ● Working in close connection with awarding bodies, staff and parents to deal with sensitive and confidential situations. ● Delivery of health and safety teaching programmes ready for testing to CSCS. Warwickshire College June
The Head of Work Based Learning is responsible for the leadership and management of the Construction and Motor Vehicle Work Based Learning curriculum area. With direct accountability for the success and positive progression of the student cohort. Accountable for curriculum, resource & financial management, and quality assurance. Through the effective deployment of resources, college systems and procedures I ensure that each student has access to and receives an outstanding experience including high quality teaching, learning and assessment. Ensuring our students develop the employability skills to gain a competitive advantage as they progress towards and along their chosen careers.
•12 years as a lecturer for Construction, Wood Occupations and Maintenance Operations. Delivering practical and theoretical elements of NVQ, City and Guilds diplomas and BTEC from ages 14 to 19 and 19 plus. •Extensive assessment and internal verification duties over a range of awarding bodies, qualifications and levels. Conducting both formative and summative quality assurance. •Creating new teaching materials such as assignments and ensuring these are standardised across the college’s multiple sites. •Monitoring student’s progress by producing tracking systems and progress reports, ensuring the student completes in a timely manner. •Excellent track record for student achievement and retention. •Ensuring all safe guarding requirements are implemented and followed. •Working in close connection with awarding bodies, staff and parents to deal with sensitive and confidential situations. •Delivery of health and safety teaching programmes ready for testing to CSCS. •Achieved a Warwickshire College ‘Above and Beyond’ award for successfully managing the Carpentry department whilst the Head of Department had an extended period of absence. •Construction department and Warwickshire College graded a 2 ‘Good’ overall in 2015 •Set up a new carpentry department at our new Evesham campus which was a recent Warwickshire College acquisition in 2016.
Self-employed Carpenter 1st and 2nd fix carpentry, production of all types of carpentry and joinery products required on site including the construction of timber framed housing. The management and organisation of budgets, materials, time sheets and payment. Working locally and nationally on large construction sites and equally smaller construction jobs within customer’s homes.