About The Role
Please note this vacancy requires the successful candidate to work 18.5 hours per week with a pro rata salary of £17,365 up to £19,044 per annum.
As a Lecturer - Foundation Learning at East Kent Colleges Group, you will teach, train, and assess students in a variety of learning environments, ensuring a high-quality learning experience. Your role will also include providing support to learners to enable them to achieve their maximum potential and lead as appropriate on designated study programmes and/or courses, with a key responsibility for ensuring the design, delivery, and evaluation of the programme.
The role will involve teaching across a range of study programmes, particularly in English, Maths, IT, Employability, personal and social development skills, working with students who are at risk of being NEET (not in employment, education, or training) and to ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) students from Entry Level 2 to Level 1.
About You
You will be highly organised, creative, and able to plan and teach engaging and innovative lessons with demonstrated interpersonal skills. Assessing and tracking student progress to further plan intervention will be a vital part of the role, ensuring all students develop the skills they need to succeed.
Ideally, you will have experience of teaching or have delivered training in the workplace, although this isn't essential as training will be offered to the successful applicant. You must have a positive outlook, be empathetic towards learners, and have strong class management skills.
You will be able to teach a range of designated study programs from Entry Level 2 to Level 2 and will be able to motivate learners to achieve and succeed in their programmes of study.
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If you are interested in an informal chat about the role, or have any queries, please email us at jobs@ekcgroup.ac.uk.
About Us
Commitment to Safeguarding
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, and we ensure that all staff are aware of their responsibilities for upholding these principles.
As a designated establishment, we are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore have an obligation to carry out checks to ensure that staff are suitable to work with children and vulnerable adults. These checks include conviction/caution self-declaration, Enhanced DBS check, and obtaining sufficient referencing.
It is a criminal offence to apply for a post which involves engaging in regulated activity relevant to children if you are barred from doing so.
If you are successful in being shortlisted for an interview, your suitability to work with children and vulnerable adults will be explored as part of the interview process.
Commitment to Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion
East Kent Colleges Group is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all members of our communities. We are particularly keen to increase the diversity of our staff body and encourage applications from candidates where there is underrepresentation in our workforce.
We are proud to hold the Positive About Disability Award and are a Disability Confident Employer. This confirms our commitment to interviewing all applicants who declare that they have a disability and who meet the essential criteria outlined in the person specification. With any successful candidate, we will explore any reasonable adjustments to a role due to a health need or disability.
Similarly, we have a commitment to Care Leavers (Care Covenant Pledge) and to current or previous Armed Forces personnel (Armed Forces Covenant Pledge) with a commitment to interview applicants who meet the position's essential criteria and who have declared this on their application.
We welcome applications from anyone wishing to work flexibly and those considering a return to work from a career break.
We do not engage with agencies for permanent staff and have an in-house recruitment team.
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