Job Description

Job Category: Non-Teaching
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Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: County Hall, Glenfield. Alternative base at Market Harborough, Hinckley, Coalville, Wigston, Loughborough or Melton would be considered on appointment.
Worker Category: Hybrid Worker, working from home or one of our centres. It is a requirement to attend a small number of meetings and events at our centres and venues throughout the year.
Salary: 28,605 to 31,029 per annum (pro-rata for part-time).
Working Hours: 14.8 hour per week average, based on 0.4 full time equivalent.
Contract Type: Fixed term
Closing Date: 30th September 2025.
Interview Date(s): Week commencing 13th October 2025.
Are you an experienced business administration, adult social care, early years, post-compulsory education or payroll professional? Do you want to play a critical role in supporting professional development within the sector? We are pleased to offer an exciting opportunity to join our highly successful and highly regarded work-based learning team.
About the Role
The successful candidates will join our effective team of vocational experts and educators, delivering a range of courses, currently including our well established apprenticeships from level 2 to level 5 in:

• business, leadership, management and administration;
• customer service;
• payroll;
• education

Also supporting our other work-based programmes including leadership and management, and post-compulsory education.
Working as part of our team you will deliver online or blended learning classes, contribute to planning and resource development, track progress, and carry out pastoral support and reviews.
This role offers a substantial amount of working remotely from home, with access to office bases and learning centres across the county.
Job share and term-term working would be considered for the ideal candidate, at the discretion of the recruiting manager.
To learn more about our provision, view our curriculum website here: and read our independent 'Excellent' employer and apprentice reviews on the .
About You
To apply for this post, you must have:

• Relevant vocational subject qualification and experience.
• An assessor qualification at level 3 or above. Applicants who do not hold this are expected to start this within the probationary period. The post holder would be eligible to take this course in-house with a funded place on our Assessor Award.
• Substantial relevant & recent occupational experience.
• Excellent organisation and record keeping skills.

The following is also desirable:

• A teaching qualification at level 3 or above. Applicants who do not hold this are encouraged to start this within the probationary period. The post holder may be eligible to take this course in-house with a funded place on our

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You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion.
In addition, we also expect you to share and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.
Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.
A DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity is required for this post.
For information on our approach to the recruitment of ex-offenders, please see our .
Interested in Flexible Working?
We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.
Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the page on our career site.
For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:
Dave Hammersley, Adult Learning Programme Manager
Telephone: 0116 305 2250
Email: Dave.Hammersley@leics.gov.uk
How to Apply
Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality, diversity and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ+ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.
To apply for this job, please click on 'Apply Now'. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above. For more information, see the section on our career site.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post or you want to request an application pack in an alternative format, please contact our Employee Service Centre by telephoning 0300 3030222 (select option 2) or raising a ticket via our online portal:
By applying for this post, you agree to our .
About Us:
About Leicestershire County Council
Leicestershire County Council is a and organisation. In August 2021, we also signed up to the . We are strongly committed to promoting equality and opportunity, championing employee wellbeing and investing in staff training and development.
Our aim is to work with communities and partners to deliver public services that make Leicestershire the best possible place to live and work for everyone. Our employees play a key role in supporting this goal and helping us deliver the vital services we provide to the people of Leicestershire.
For further information on what it's like to work for us and the benefits we offer, please refer to the following:

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