Vacancies – Derbyshire Adult Community Education Service – Programme Development Worker

Programme Development Worker

Derbyshire Adult Community Education Service has a 22.2 hour per week (0.6 fte) vacancy for a Programme Development Worker (PDW) within the north area of the county based in the High Peak (Glossop, Buxton and New Mills) area. The previous base was Glossop, but this is negotiable. This is a temporary post until 31 December 2022 due to the secondment of the previous postholder.

The PDW posts carry out a wide range of duties supporting the development of programmes, management of delivery staff, promotion and improvement of teaching and learning within DACES provision, liaising with partner agencies and families and monitoring achievement and progression. This includes:

Community learning – Engaging people in learning, supporting progression to other learning, to improve life chances and enhance independence including family learning and learning for personal development and wellbeing. Provision that includes self-financing or full-cost provision across the whole curriculum, learning clubs, programme for local businesses, voluntary sector and other public sector organisations.

Qualification learning – Development and delivery of employability and qualifications up to Level 2 for adults, including supporting 14-19 programme and adult learner loans provision; to prepare people and help them get into work.

This post will be primarily concerned with supporting the delivery of the Community Learning programme in the High Peak area.

A casual car user allowance is attached to this post, but it is possible for the allowance to be converted to other forms of transport where there is a requirement to undertake travel as part of this post.

Due to this post potentially having access to children and/or vulnerable adults, the successful candidate will be required to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Service check. The possession of a criminal record will not necessarily prevent an applicant from obtaining this post, as all cases are judged individually according to the nature of the role and information provided. Click here to see our policy on criminal background checks.

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For further information contact: nikki.wright@derbyshire.gov.uk

Programme Development Worker

Derbyshire Adult Community Education Service has a 14.8 hour per week (0.4 fte) vacancy for a Programme Development Worker (PDW) within the north area of the county based in the High Peak (Glossop, Buxton and New Mills) area. The previous base was Glossop, but this is negotiable.

The PDW posts carry out a wide range of duties supporting the development of programmes, management of delivery staff, promotion and improvement of teaching and learning within DACES provision, liaising with partner agencies and families and monitoring achievement and progression. This includes:

Community learning – Engaging people in learning, supporting progression to other learning, to improve life chances and enhance independence including family learning and learning for personal development and wellbeing. Provision that includes self-financing or full-cost provision across the whole curriculum, learning clubs, programme for local businesses, voluntary sector and other public sector organisations.

Qualification learning – Development and delivery of employability and qualifications up to Level 2 for adults, including supporting 14-19 programme and adult learner loans provision; to prepare people and help them get into work.

This post will be primarily concerned with the development of the targeted Community Learning programme in the High Peak area.

A casual car user allowance is attached to this post, but it is possible for the allowance to be converted to other forms of transport where there is a requirement to undertake travel as part of this post.

Due to this post potentially having access to children and/or vulnerable adults, the successful candidate will be required to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Service check. The possession of a criminal record will not necessarily prevent an applicant from obtaining this post, as all cases are judged individually according to the nature of the role and information provided. Click here to see our policy on criminal background checks.

Apply for this post

For further information contact: nikki.wright@derbyshire.gov.uk