Teacher of Health & Social Care
Woking College
Woking, Surrey
- Expired
- Salary:
- up to £42,149 depending on experience plus £1,092 fringe allowance per annum
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- As soon as possible - please contact the College if you would like to discuss a start date
- Apply by:
- 7 February 2022
Job overview
The Role
This is an exciting opportunity for a talented, inspiring and enthusiastic Teacher to join our team and teach Vocational Health & Social Care to Level Level 2 and Level 3. We are looking for a full-time member of staff with dynamism and passion for Health & Social Care to provide continuity for students in our successful and growing College.
Applications from ECTs and Teachers in Schools and Sixth Form College sectors are welcome. A full mentoring programme is organised to introduce all new staff to sixth form college systems and procedures and to support and encourage professional development.
We are looking for an exceptional candidate. We expect high performance from all our staff and are looking for an impressive individual to inspire College students. Candidates should demonstrate their ability and suitability to both the role and the culture of the College
The Department
The Social Sciences department is a large, successful area of the College which includes, sociology, vocational health & social care as well as the NCFE Childcare course. As a direct result of the growth in student numbers, the Social Sciences department was recently split into two separate departments for Psychology and Criminology (Behavioural Sciences) and Sociology and Health & Social Care (Social Sciences).
The department hosts a range of extra-curricular activities which have included educational visits and guest speakers from local universities to discuss their research with our students. Our expectations are high and our students value the support that the department offers to ensure they excel and meet their potential. This includes regular study support workshops, bookable 1:1s for personalised support, target setting and an intensive revision programme, as well as being focused on the development of exam skills and improving literacy.
As part of the Woking Way programme, the College offers the opportunity for wider learning through the short courses programme. This has recently included “Autistic Spectrum Disorder, the role of second-hand stigma and ambiguous loss: An in depth look into carrying out a social science research project” where students gained an introduction to academic research, and explore realistic, ethical and practical choices of topics relevant to the social sciences.
Application Information:
Start Date: as soon as possible, please contact the College if you would like to discuss a suitable start date
Salary: up to £42,149 depending on experience plus £1,092 fringe allowance per annum
To Apply: Please download the Application Pack and click the Apply Now button to access the Application Form. CVs will not be accepted on their own.
Closing date: 9am, Monday 7 February 2022.
Interviews: to be held shortly after the closing date. We advise candidates to apply as soon as possible, and reserve the right to interview in advance of the closing date.
For further information or to return a completed Application Form, please contact: Kirsty Crook, Personnel Officer: kcr@woking.ac.uk
Important information:
The College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Appointed staff will be subject to Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks. The College is committed to equal opportunities.
The College encourages all candidates to be familiar with Section 1 of the DfE paper on “Keeping Children Safe in Education” September 2021 and the College's Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy. These documents can be found on the College's Staff Vacancies page, and Policies page.
In line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) the College asks candidates to consider Woking College's Privacy Notice for Job Applicants, which can be found on the Staff Vacancies page of the College’s website.
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About Woking College
Woking College is an oversubscribed and highly successful college of over 1400 students drawing students from more than 60 different schools. Our very successful strategic focus has, for many years, been to create the very best environment for high quality of teaching and learning alongside the widest range of enrichment activities enhancing the cultural capital of our students. Alongside this we place a very strong emphasis on maintaining our wonderful community, we have a more diverse College population than might be thought of as typical for Surrey but we are determined to maintain our inclusive ethos. We are fully committed to innovation whilst maintaining a humane and caring approach for all members of the College community which has resulted in the doubling of the student population in recent years. These approaches have been key to securing Grade 1 ‘Outstanding’ in all seven categories in our October 2022 Ofsted inspection.
Woking College is enjoying record results, very positive value-added and an abundance of applications and quite rightly has a teaching and learning culture which is the envy of other institutions, indeed in recent staff surveys over 95% of College staff said they were proud to work at Woking College!
We have benefited hugely from an impressive transformation of the College’s estate over recent years, with the completion of a new Sports Centre in 2014, a new Arts Block in 2015 and a modern and larger Science Building in 2016. A full size 3G pitch was completed in 2020. A £3m teaching block and another £3m project working collaboratively with an adjacent community centre will enhance our estate even further within this academic year.
We recognise the advantages of collaboration and have worked hard over the years to build and maintain close working relationships with other education providers and the Local Authority. The College has been a long-standing member of S7, the Surrey and Sussex group of Sixth Form Colleges, possibly the leading college consortium nationally, and we look forward to continued positive engagement with schools, colleges and the local community for the benefit of all.
With strong leadership from our passionate and committed senior leadership team, and with the support of excellent teaching and support staff across all areas, we look forward to the continued evolution of the College; we also look forward to meeting committed, engaging and passionate people who want to join us to further enhance the life-chances and choices of our students – which is of course our main mission as educators.
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