Lecturer - Agriculture
Sparsholt College
Hampshire
- £20,950 - £32,241 per year
- Expired
- Salary:
- (dependent upon qualifications and experience)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Part Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 4 January 2021
Job overview
£20,950 - £32,241 (dependent upon qualifications and experience)
Full and Part-time applications considered
Sparsholt College is seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and inspirational lecturer to join our Agriculture team. The post holder will join an experienced team and play a critical role in the successful delivery of the College’s further education programmes in Agriculture.
The role includes teaching, tutoring and assessment of learners in all aspects of the Agriculture curriculum in classroom and practical environments. The curriculum offer includes college-based agriculture programmes at Levels 1-3, agricultural engineering, and apprenticeship programmes in the livestock and crop sectors.
The successful candidate will possess the relevant professional qualifications and a recognised teaching qualification, or willingness to work towards achieving one. A desire to inspire young people to achieve their goals in the agriculture sector is essential.
The college’s farming estate totals 260 hectares which provide a real-work environment for training and skills development. Resources include a dairy and beef unit, a RSPCA and Farm Assured pig unit, two sheep herds and arable and forage cropping. The department has a tractor fleet, and machinery for practical fieldwork as well as for the agricultural engineering curriculum.
Learners utilise all resources to gain experience across all elements of livestock management and fieldwork operations, they also participate in farm duties which requires them to live in residences during the duty period. The post-holder will be responsible for building relationships with the Farm and Workshop teams and planning learning to ensure that learners engage fully with the resources throughout the academic and agricultural year.
The Agriculture department has an excellent reputation, student numbers are circa 200 and are growing year-on-year. Many of our learners choose to live in college residences during the period of study, and we have national and international learners on programme.
Full and part-time applications considered.
Suitable candidates should have the following:
Essential:
- Level 3 or higher qualification in Landbased/Agriculture or similar
- Minimum of 3 years’ experience working in the Agriculture industry
- GCSE Grade C/4 or above in Maths and English or equivalent
- Ability to apply working knowledge of theory and practical to a teaching environment
- Commitment to continuous professional development
- Willingness to undertake level 5 teacher training if not already qualified
- Excellent communication skills and ability to work independently and within a team
- Ability to use Microsoft Office
- Well organised and able to work under pressure
Desirable:
- Recognised teaching qualification
- Previous teaching/training experience
- D1 minibus licence
- Previous assessing skills/qualifications
The college reserves the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing deadline if suitable applications are received.
This post is based at the Sparsholt campus.
Closing Date: 04 January 2021
College Benefits
• Eligibility to join the Teachers’ Pension Scheme (a defined benefit pension scheme)
• Death benefit grant of 3 X salary if in the pension scheme
• Free on- site parking
• Occupational Sick Pay Scheme
• Occupational Maternity Pay Scheme
• Flexible Working Policy
• Holiday entitlement of 42 days plus bank holidays (pro-rated for part-time staff)
• Access to an Employee Assistance Scheme
• Free Library membership
• Facility to purchase Sparsholt produce including: plants, fruit & vegetables, fish and game.
• Ability to access a range of CPD events and support with undertaking professional qualifications.
• Various food outlets and eateries offering good value food and drink at competitive prices
There is a nursery on the Sparsholt campus operated by a commercial provider
Attached documents
About Sparsholt College
- Sparsholt College
- Westley Lane, Sparsholt, Winchester
- Hampshire
- SO21 2NF
- United Kingdom
What’s in a name?
Sparsholt College takes its name from the parish of Sparsholt in which it is situated and the neighbouring village.
Pronounced “Spar - sholt” (not “Spars - holt”), the name derives from two old English words:
Spar - a straight timber for making spears,roof timbers, etc.
Holt - an area of managed woodland.
Thus, rural industry, reflected in the local name, continues to be taught and promoted in its modern forms by the
College today.
History
Hampshire County Council was the fourth in England to commit bricks and mortar to agricultural training and the county’s first Farm School was opened in November 1899 at Old Basing, near Basingstoke.
Its aim was “to provide instruction in the science and practice of agriculture and gardening, but particularly to make the practical side approach as nearly as possible to business conditions, consistent with educational purposes and to provide a centre for domestic work in the county”.
In September 1914, the Farm School was transferred to the 400 acre (158 ha) Westley Farm at Sparsholt, specially bought for the purpose by the County Council. Staff and students made do with huts, barns and Westley farmhouse until 1926, when a new College building (now the administrative centre) was opened.
Numbers of students remained in the 30’s and 40’s for many years, with the development of farm and horticultural buildings in line with modern practice of the times.
Between 1970 and the present time, other College educational buildings have developed to accommodate a rapid growth in student numbers as the breadth of land-based subjects was expanded and the depth of academic progression reflected up to six levels of course qualifications.
Higher Education at the College began in 1983, with the introduction of an HND in Fishery Studies. Since then, HE courses have multiplied. The College is directly funded for its Higher Education courses, not as a subsidiary of university-based courses.
In common with all colleges of further education, the College became independent from the County Council in 1993 and is now funded, for FE courses, from central government through the Learning and Skills Council.
The present day College has excellent teaching and training facilities both for theory and practical classes. A superb library and four computer suites reflects the need to keep pace with new methods of learning, while recent construction of superb new training resources (see individual sections’ facilities) keep pace with rapidly developing industrial technology.
More than 1,400 full-time students and 6,000 part-time enrolments have increased the demand for new teaching space and, to this end, the Sainsbury building, incorporating classrooms, lecture theatre and laboratories was opened in December 2000.
Many students use the highly developed residential, social and sports facilities at the College (over 400 single study rooms on site most of which are en-suite). Over its 100+ year history, Sparsholt College has become one of the largest colleges of its kind in the country and, with highly rated educational standards, one of the best regarded.
As with all Further and Higher Education institutions, Sparsholt College is subject to government standards and inspection processes.
Graded results from the last three inspection reports and recently awarded Centre of Vocational Excellence (CoVE) status show the College to be in the highest league and should give every prospective student full confidence in the quality of their course provision.
A reputation alone does not “make” a college, nor do familiar buildings and top class resources; it is also the commitment of a dedicated staff and the motivation of the students which contribute to that “something special” which is Sparsholt College.
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