It could be really satisfying to develop your career by choosing to pass on your skills to someone entering your industry. It might be a new, and equally rewarding, way to use your practical knowledge and experience - and help ensure that there's a new generation of professionals who really know what they're doing. After all, when newly qualified professionals start work in vocations such as health & social care or engineering, it is really important that they have the right skills and knowledge to do the job correctly from the start.
Research has shown that although many further education colleges are offering qualifications in health & social care and engineering, they sometimes have difficulty in finding teachers, tutors and trainers with the right skills to deliver these qualifications.
This is where you come in - because it's your skills that are vital to the development of future workforces.
As an experienced practitioner in your field, we would like to encourage you to consider a career in teaching, tutoring or training in order to pass on your skills to the future workforce. Many colleges are struggling to fill teacher, tutor and trainer vacancies in your field - leaving a whole range of opportunities available within different organisations such as further education colleges, adult and community colleges or work-based learning providers, and enabling you to work on a full-time or part-time basis. As a teacher, tutor or trainer you will be working wherever the learner is - this could be in your local college, a community centre or a workplace.
Pass on Your Skills can fund, support and guide you though achieving the qualification required, and your progression into a new career.
The introductory course is called Preparing to Teach in the Lifelong Learning Sector (PTLLS) and you can find more information on the course in this section of the website.
