Lecturer in ICT 50% - HMP Portland, HMP Portland

Do you want to help transform life opportunities? Have you ever considered the unique challenge of Offender Learning? Teaching in prisons is an incredibly rewarding challenge with the benefits of mainstream education. 

Weston College is the regional provider for OLASS 4 prison education delivery across the South West of England and is now seeking to recruit an outstanding and highly motivated teacher in ICT at HMP Portland.

The successful applicant will be working in a highly dynamic learning environment and will need to be able to show flexibility and innovation in their approaches to teaching. They will have the ability to demonstrate a broad range of skills to engage with a wide range of learners. A relevant teaching qualification or experience is required as is an ability to work in partnership with others and excellent interpersonal skills.

This is an exciting time to join Weston College. The College is Ofsted ‘Outstanding’, its Higher Education provision is graded ‘Gold’ by TEF, and Weston College has recently won the Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education, one of only two Further Education colleges in the country to be awarded this prestigious honour. Furthermore, the College is an Investors in People ‘Champion’ and has been awarded ‘Gold’ by Investors in People, which demonstrates our commitment to invest in our staff to improve performance.