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    • 26 days FTE per annum.
    • Week commencing 09/11/2026.
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Job Post Details

Skills Practitioner - Art and Design
EKC Group
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3.3
Ashford
£26,334 a year
Full-time
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Job details

£26,334 a year
Annual leave
Full-time
Ashford

Full job description

Business Unit:
Ashford College
Location:
Ashford, Kent
Salary Details:
£26,334 FTE per annum
Hours Per Week:
11
Weeks Per Year:
52
Annual Leave:
26 days FTE per annum
Proposed Interview Date:
week commencing 09/11/2026
Advertising End Date:
01/11/2026

About The Role

Art Skills Practitioner
As a Skills Practitioner within Art and Design you’ll play an important part in supporting both staff and students, helping to deliver high-quality, hands-on learning experiences.
You’ll liaise with colleagues and external partners, support learners to reach their goals, and ensure workshops are safe, well-organised, and fully equipped.

In this role, you will:

  • Monitor and promote excellent Health & Safety practices within workshop sessions

  • Order, organise, and issue stock and supplies to keep sessions running smoothly

  • Assist in workshop preparation

  • Provide constructive feedback and support to students

Hours per week: 11
Salary per year: £7,829

Alongside our priority of excellent student experience, we focus on our employees. Take a look at the variety of benefits on our careers website.

About You

Are you organised, hands-on, and positive about helping others? We’re looking for someone who enjoys supporting others to develop practical skills and confidence, while contributing to outstanding teaching and learning.

What are we looking for?

  • You will be confident to support and guide learners through practical tasks
  • You will have a Level 3 qualification in Art
  • You will have some industry experience in the Art sector
  • You will have knowledge of working in a practical art environment which may include
wedging clay ready for wheel use
recycling clay using plaster slab,
working with plaster of paris,
casting and model making skills
printmaking processes
woodworking skills
the ability to use hand and power tools effectively
stretcher making using lap joints by hand
use of sewing machines
  • You will also have knowledge of COSHH, and Health and Safety in art and design
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If you have any queries about this role or would like to come in for a tour of the department, please email us on jobs@ekcgroup.ac.uk



About Us

Outstanding Ofsted Provider

East Kent Colleges Group is an Ofsted Outstanding rated provider. It is proud to be the first General Further Education college organisation in the country to have received the Outstanding grade against each of the strands under the new Ofsted inspection framework. An inclusive provider, our colleagues place our students and the communities we serve at the heart of everything they do across EKC Group and this is illustrated in our ‘Strong’ skills grading by Ofsted.

Commitment to Safeguarding

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and we ensure that all staff are aware of their responsibilities for upholding these principles.

As a designated establishment, we are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore have an obligation to carry out checks to ensure that staff are suitable to work with children and vulnerable adults. These checks include conviction/caution self-declaration, Enhanced DBS check and obtaining sufficient referencing.

It is a criminal offence to apply for a post which involves engaging in regulated activity relevant to children if you are barred from doing so.

If you are successful in being shortlisted to interview, your suitability to work with children and vulnerable adults will be explored as part of the interview process.

Commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

East Kent Colleges Group is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all members of our communities. We are particularly keen to increase the diversity of our staff body and encourage applications from candidates where there is underrepresentation in our workforce.

We are proud to hold the Positive About Disability Award and are a Disability Confident Employer. This confirms our commitment to interviewing all applicants who declare that they have a disability and who meet the essential criteria outlined in the person specification. With any successful candidate, we will explore any reasonable adjustments to a role due to a health needs or disability.

Similarly, we have a commitment to Care Leavers (Care Covenant Pledge) and to current or previous Armed Forces personnel (Armed Forces Covenant Pledge) with a commitment to interview applicants who meet the positions essential criteria and who have declared this on their application.

We welcome applications from anyone wishing to work flexibly and those considering a return to work from a career break.

We do not engage with agencies for permanent staff and have an in-house recruitment team.

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