17 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    As soon as possible

  • Closing date

    15 November 2026 at 11:59pm

  • Date listed

    29 October 2026

Job details

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Subject

Public services

Working pattern

Full time: 37 hours per week.

Contract type

Permanent

Full time equivalent salary

Commencing at £31,916 with progression to £35,912 per annum pro rata

What skills and experience we're looking for

About the Role

Leeds City College is recruiting a Teacher of Uniformed Public Services to join our team, who can deliver inspiring sessions to our learners to help them prepare for a career in their chosen uniformed service.

We are looking for someone with career experience working in Uniformed Public Services; this could be within the Armed Forces or Emergency Services, including Police and Fire Services, who can share their experience and skills with our learners to help them succeed in their chosen career.

The School of Public Services at Leeds City College supports over 400 students on courses from Level 1 to Level 3, preparing them for careers within the emergency services and armed forces and many more sectors.

We don’t just teach in classrooms – our students learn self-discipline, communication, problem-solving, and teamwork skills through practical experience.

To learn more about what we do, check out our Instagram @LCC_Publicservices and watch our course information video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3QDAH_sSms

What You Will Do

We are looking for someone with the passion and skills to deliver topics such as:

  • Prepare for a career in a chosen uniformed service

  • Carry out map reading and navigation across open country

  • Emergency planning and response in the uniformed services

  • Uniformed services hierarchy and routine

https://www.ncfe.org.uk/qualification-search/qualification-detail/ncfe-level-3-diploma-for-entry-to-the-uniformed-services-720-560

Core responsibilities include:

  • Develop learners to make positive progress towards their career goals whilst developing skills and qualities that ensure they have successful outcomes.

  • Plan, prepare and develop schemes of work, session plans, teaching and learning resources, and learning and assessment plans.

  • Deliver inspiring sessions across the curriculum using a wide range of teaching methods for identified modules.

  • Deliver and assess essential knowledge and understanding to learners.

  • Be responsible for recording student progress - Adapt curriculum delivery methods to maximise their effectiveness, including through the use of technology.

About You

  • Ability to inspire and motivate learners to achieve their optimum.

  • A passion for subjects that include topics relating to emergency services and the armed forces.

  • Relevant up-to-date subject knowledge from working in the services or recent delivery in the Further Education or school sector.

  • Recent teaching delivery demonstrates active learning and differentiated teaching styles in any setting.

  • Ability to be adaptable and flexible towards the requirements of different learner needs.

What the college offers its staff

The group offers a range of excellent benefits, including:

Annual leave:

  • Curriculum and Management:44 days plus bank holidays
  • Curriculum support and business support: 39 days plus bank holidays

Pension schemes with generous employer contributions:

  • Teachers’ Pension Scheme
  • Local Government Pension Scheme
  • People’s Pension Scheme

CPD opportunities:

  • Annual staff conference plus 2 additional staff development days.
  • Qualifications including PGCE, Apprenticeships, Leadership and Management courses.

Employee wellbeing initiatives:

  • Family Friendly Policies, discounted onsite spa (Printworks) and gym (Park Lane).

Travel and commuting:

  • Discounted travel available through Metro card, Northern Rail, First Bus, Arriva Bus and Cycle to work schemes

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.
Visas cannot be sponsored.
If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

At Luminate Education Group we are committed to the safeguarding and welfare of all our students. We expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful applicants will be required to complete mandatory pre-employment checks which include an enhanced DBS check, online checks and must have two satisfactory references. Please be aware that it is a criminal offence to apply for a job with us if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity in connection to children.

Applying for the job

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About Luminate Education Group

Organisation type
FE College, ages 14 to 99
Education phase
Sixth form or FE college
Size
No information available
Age range
14 to 99
Ofsted report
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Luminate Education Group is a collective of education providers based in Yorkshire with one clear purpose: to make a positive difference to people's lives through genuinely transformative education and training.

We are a group of seven organisations, based in the Leeds City Region: Harrogate College, Keighley College, Leeds City College, Leeds Conservatoire, Leeds Sixth Form College, Pudsey Sixth Form College and University Centre Leeds. 

Together, we are inspiring a whole generation of people and new leaders who will go on to make their own impact on the region and beyond.

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