Lecturer / Assessor of Mathematics

Ref: JP1218

We are looking for someone to join our highly experienced teaching team to teach on a range of cross college Mathematics programmes including predominately Functional skills and GCSE but also potentially at Advanced level. This will include management of learning including the design and delivery of high quality teaching and learning to ensure students achieve their maximum potential together with learning outcomes. You will promote innovation in curriculum design and development within your area and may be required to organise and supervise work placements and to undertake work based assessment where appropriate. You will be required to ensure both the quality of your teaching and of the provision are of a high standard and use College quality systems to monitor track and manage this. You will undertake the role of course leader for selected group(s) and contribute to the wider work of the curriculum / faculty team.

Our expectations

We have high expectations of all of our teaching staff. Good teachers can change the lives of our learners. Our teachers are those who see teaching as a vocation and not simply a job. They are prepared to go above and beyond for their learners to enable them to realise their potential.

As a vocational College focussed on the future careers of our learners, we expect our teachers to be dual professionals. For us, this means an equal emphasis on your pedagogical, subject and vocational skills and ensuring that you continually strive to develop both aspects of your role.

We, like every other Further Education College operate in a challenging and continually changing environment. We are proud of our Outstanding status and understand that it is our staffs’ passion, innovation and commitment to excellence in all they do that will allow us to remain outstanding.

We demand a lot of our staff. We need them to have resilience, determination to ensure the best for their learners, to work flexibly and to put teaching and learning at the heart of everything they do.

What you can expect:

• A full time teaching load of 828 hours per annum which is amongst the lowest in the sector
• A generous 55 days holiday and a further 8 days dedicated to study / development / vocational updating
• 5 College run staff development days per year
• Frequent opportunities for career enhancement for example through our annual appointment of Advanced Practitioners from within our teaching teams
• Well-equipped classrooms and workshops to support innovative teaching, learning and assessment practice
• Significant investment through our digital strategy to support effective teaching and learning
• Sympathetic timetabling wherever possible to avoid a spread of too many different courses and levels and the inclusion, where possible, of repeat lessons
• A culture of support across the organisation
• An expectation of shared practice including resources, schemes of learning and session plans
• An excellent learning support team including support from our Personalised Learning Centre, in class support and a team of specialist support workers to advise and inform teaching and learning
• An active and supportive Quality team
• Well established and effective administration support pods dedicated to each faculty
• A comprehensive professional development programme which includes in-house provision as well as externally supported events

0.6 FTE (21 hpw)

Closing: Wednesday 10th February 2016
Interviews: Wednesday 24th February 2016