King’s Trust Volunteer

Role: King’s Trust Volunteer

Location: Northamptonshire

Salary/Benefits: This is a volunteer post

Hours/Weeks: Various

Contract Type: Sessional – Volunteer

About the role:

We are currently seeking a King’s Trust Volunteer to join our Community Learning department at The Bedford College Group.

As a King’s Trust Volunteer, you play an important role in the success of our students through:

• Programme Support & Delivery – Assists the King’s Trust Team Leader in delivering the 12-week Team Programme, supporting learners with basic skills and contributing to a positive learning experience.
• Learner Engagement & Recruitment – Supports recruitment efforts, helps set up individual learning plans, and provides tailored tuition to meet learners’ educational needs.
• Placement & Promotion – Aids in sourcing work placements and promoting the programme to employers and community organisations to enhance learner opportunities.
• Administration & Compliance – Assists with record keeping, attends meetings and training, and ensures learners adhere to health and safety requirements
• Safeguarding & Development – Upholds safeguarding, equality, and health and safety standards, and actively engages in training and development relevant to the role.

About you:

• Qualifications & Knowledge – Holds GCSE English (A–C or equivalent), with demonstrable understanding of equality, diversity, health and safety, and work placement requirements.
• Experience & Behavioural Insight – Experienced in supporting placements, managing challenging behaviour, and delivering basic skills to a diverse range of learners.
• Skills & Team Contribution – Strong organisational and time management skills, effective communicator, and a positive team player who values others’ contributions and promotes the organisation’s reputation.
• Values & Professional Conduct – Works in line with core values (Caring, Continuous Improvement, Educational Excellence, Inclusive, Student Centred, Teamwork), maintaining professionalism and respectful relationships.
• Safeguarding & Flexibility – Committed to safeguarding, continuous learning, and flexible working across all service locations, with awareness of health and safety and appropriate boundaries with vulnerable groups.

For a more detailed breakdown of the job role and the requirements, please see the Job Description attached to this vacancy.

Interviews to be held: TBC

Successful candidates must also be able to demonstrate alignment to our organisationalVISION values:

• Valuing Teamwork – We are one team who by working together can achieve great things, respecting the opinion and valuing the contribution each of us makes.
• Improving Continuously – We challenge ourselves to always do better by trying new things, sharing knowledge, reflecting on practice and learning from others.
• Student Centred – At our heart is always doing what is best for our students. We consider students in all of our decision making to create positive outcomes and memorable experiences for every student.
• Inclusive – We celebrate differences and diversity, recognising that we can learn from each other.
• Open and Caring – We care about the wellbeing of our staff, our students, our community and wider society, creating an environment built on trust where we listen, engage with and support each other.
• Nurturing Education Excellence – We promote educational excellence by delivering programmes that challenge our students to achieve their ambitions.

What is an Associate?
Associates work on a short term basis as assigned. They teach or provide support services and they work with and are supported by core staff. As an Associate you will be issued with an Associate agreement, under this Agreement period you will be eligible to work on assignments offered to you. Typically an agreement runs from January to December and may be renewed thereafter.

About The Bedford College Group
The Bedford College Group was formed in 2017 following the merger of Bedford College and Tresham College and is now the largest provider of education in the South East Midlands, with over 15,000 students passing through our doors each year.

Today, the Group is made up of a family of colleges across Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire: Bedford College, Central Bedfordshire College and Tresham College in the towns of Bedford, Dunstable, Leighton Buzzard, Corby, Kettering and Wellingborough; Shuttleworth College, a specialist land-based college; The Bedford Sixth Form, (the only dedicated sixth form in Bedford); The Corby Sixth Form, (opened in September 2023); and the National College for Motorsport alongside Silverstone race circuit. To widen accessibility to education and training, the Group also has community-based Learning Centres in Bedford, Corby and Kettering which offer IT training.

Safeguarding our Students
The Bedford College Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to thorough vetting process which includes, an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory references.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975, provides information about which convictions must be declared during job applications and related exceptions and further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide. The Bedford College Group’s policy on Employment of Ex-Offenders is attached to this vacancy.

Candidates who are barred from working with children are reminded it is a criminal offence to apply for this post.

Documents

TBCG Ex-Offenders Policy.pdf

King’s Trust Volunteer JDPS.docx