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Teacher of Carpentry and Joinery

RNN Group • Full-time • Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom • £32,199 - £37,199 / year • 5d ago

Further Education Teacher of Carpentry and Joinery

Hours; Full time (37 hours each week, all year round)

Duration; Permanent

Salary; £32,199 to £37,199 (based on qualified teacher status) a year + benefits

Location; Rotherham College, Rotherham

About the Role

Ready to swap the tools for a truly impactful career? This is your chance to leverage your deep Carpentry and Joinery expertise to directly shape the next generation of skilled professionals. We're not just offering a teaching job; we're offering you a role in developing a Centre of Excellence for our curriculum.

You may also be an experienced tutor or assessor, looking for a change or a new challenge. Whatever your rationale, this role is a fantastic opportunity to make a real difference. We are growing and developing our curriculum and want passionate, industry experienced and committed individuals to help us achieve our goals and develop the area as a Centre of Excellence.

Within this role the successful candidate will be responsible for delivering outstanding teaching and assessment up to Level 3 which includes study programmes, adult programmes and apprenticeships within carpentry and joinery, in both a workshop and classroom environment. With an enthusiastic and engaging approach, you will have the ability to motivate students and support them to achieve their potential.

Deliver Outstanding Education: Provide engaging and enthusiastic teaching and assessment in both workshop and classroom settings, making the subject come alive through practical, theoretical, and digital methods.

Mentor and Inspire: Motivate and support diverse learners, tracking their progress and setting SMART goals to help them achieve their highest potential.

Collaborate and Grow: Work as an effective, motivated team player with colleagues and management to achieve ambitious organisational goals.

You will…

You will play an important role in developing creative resources to inspire outstanding learning and will be responsible for the monitoring and tracking of learner progress to promote positive outcomes for learners.

Candidates should be an effective and motivated team player, with excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work effectively with colleagues and management to achieve strategic and organisational objectives.

You will hold a vocational qualification at Level 3 or above, as well as a relevant Level 5 teaching qualification and assessors award, or be willing to work towards.

You will be able to bring the subject to life, using combined methods of practical, theoretical and digital which will engage your learners and provide them with the best skills, knowledge and behaviours for the future.

Department Info

You will work as part of the curriculum team at Rotherham and you will also closely, and take direction from our Curriculum Team Leaders. You will be line managed by the Curriculum Manager.

In this role you will also work in collaboration with Technicians, Personal Development Coordinators, Work Placement Officers and

Our excellent benefits and rewards package:

Access to teachers pensions scheme
Up to 50 days annual leave per year including closure during Christmas period
Access to our gyms, restaurants and salons
Staff health & wellbeing and benefits schemes including in-house Occupational Health service
Full, part time and flexible working hours available in many roles
Parking available at all of our sites
Fantastic career development opportunities including funding for teacher training, apprenticeships and various other industry recognised qualifications
New FE teachers can also apply for grants of up to £6,000 in STEM subjects (conditions apply) through the levelling up premium payments initiative
Recruitment Referral Scheme for all employees, worth £200 per referral made

What is the RNN Group?

RNN Group’s main goal is to be an ‘outstanding’ education and training provider and this is at the heart of everything that we do. To help us achieve this we are looking to recruit highly motivated, innovative and dynamic individuals to join our existing teams. To be a part of the team at RNN Group we will expect you to be committed to our values too;

We are Inclusive,
We have Integrity,
We Deliver,
We are One Team.

We are OFSTED ‘Good’ (November 2022)

We celebrate diversity and are proud to have been recognised as Investors in Diversity for our commitment to the FREDIE (Fairness, Respect, Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Engagement) Model. This means that you’d be working in a supportive environment that encourages, recognises and celebrates effort, achievement and cooperative attitudes. We welcome applications from everyone regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, faith or disability. We are also proud to be part of the Disability Confidence Scheme and offer reasonable adjustments to all applicants throughout the recruitment process.

The RNN Group is proud to be part of the South Yorkshire Institute of Technology (SYIoT).

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, vulnerable adults and young people. All new employees will be required undertake a DBS check and other associated checks in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education Guidance.

The Group’s core operating hours are 8.30am-5.00pm (9pm on a Tuesday and Thursday during term time). You may be expected to work at any time during these hours to ensure business needs are met.

All candidates must have the legal right to work in the UK.

Closing date: Monday 27 October 2025 – if you are shortlisted for this post, you will be contacted within a week of the closing date.

Provisional Interview Date: Tuesday 4 November 2025