Care and welfare teacher

Team: Care and welfare training
Location: Purmerend and Zaandam
Salary scale: LB (max. €5,495 based on full appointment) or LC (max. €6,210 based on full appointment)
Type of vacancy: starting with a one-year contract
With effect from: 1 January 2026
Responding for: 16 October 2025

Are you that driven, flexible teacher who is not shy of a challenge? Who knows how to passionately challenge and inspire students to get the best out of themselves. Then we are looking for you!

The function
We find it important that you are able to teach interactive, challenging lessons using a variety of (digital) teaching methods. In this position, your tasks include the following:

• preparing, conducting and evaluating profession-specific lessons such as medical knowledge (anatomy/disease/medicine knowledge), triage and medical technical handling;

• as a mentor guiding students while working on vocational assignments, during classes and in their school careers;

• making tests;

• Contribute to the development of educational materials;

• conducting exams;

• Participate in various consultation events;

• performing common teaching tasks within the team.

About the team
The Healthcare Department provides various courses, which train and prepare students for a position in Healthcare. These include the positions of assistant, carer and nurse. We also train for positions such as assistant in Health Care (AG); doctor, pharmacist and dentist assistants.
You will join the Helping Care and Welfare team where passionate staff strive to bring out the best in students. We offer education in Zaandam and Purmerend. In the near future also in a district learning centre in the region. Affinity with the Helpende Zorg en Welzijn target group is highly desirable.
Besides regular education, LLO (lifelong development) is increasingly becoming part of our MBO. This means that, as a teacher, you play a role in providing opportunities for students and other adults to continue developing their knowledge and skills, even after completing their MBO education. You do this, if required, on location. LLO ensures that people stay vital and are flexibly and sustainably employable in the labour market. 

Job requirements

Your profile

• Work experience as a caring IG/nurse is a must;

• You have a completed or nearly completed teacher training programme for Zorg en Welzijn and are qualified to teach in MBO. If you do not (yet) have a qualification, you must be willing to obtain one;

• you are focused on cooperation in a results-oriented team;

• you have coaching skills;

• You are able to see and influence group dynamics within your group. You are strong in your classroom management and in establishing professional relationships with your students;

• you have excellent written and oral expression skills.

Our offer
The field of work and your profession are constantly changing. We stand and go for lifelong learning. For your professional and personal development, we have our own Talland Academy and the online platform Good Habitz. In addition, you can count on excellent terms of employment, including:

• This is initially a temporary appointment for the period of one year, with the possibility of an extension;

• For qualified teachers, we offer the possibility of being appointed to the position of Core Teacher in salary scale LC (max. € 6,210 for a full-time appointment). If you have no teaching qualification for MBO, you will be graded as a teacher in scale LB (max. € 5,495 for a full-time appointment). Classification takes place on the basis of knowledge, skills and education;

• holiday allowance of 8% and a year-end bonus of 8.33%;

• group insurance;

• attractive vitality and lifestyle schemes.

Who are we?
Talland College believes in the power of together. Only together can we do what we need to do: train professionals who matter to society. We do this with our 1,800 employees, each with their own talents, ambitions and qualities. At our locations in Noord-Holland, Alkmaar, Heerhugowaard, Hoorn, Purmerend and Zaanstad, we provide more than 200 MBO programmes. We work closely with social institutions and companies in our regions.
With us, you get the space to design your own work. Because we believe that you know what lives and what is needed for it. That demands something of you. Initiative, a critical eye and daring to call each other to account. Apart from thinking, above all doing. We are there for each other, in education and support services. So that, together with your colleagues, you can do your work with pleasure.

Details
Interviews will take place on Wednesday 29 October next between 1pm and 5pm.

Information 
For more information about the position, please contact Frank Sitaram, training manager, 06 39 71 60 94. 
If you are interested, we look forward to receiving your response no later than 16 October using the application button below