Role: Lecturer – Maths
Location: Tresham College - Corby, Kettering & Wellingborough Campuses
Salary/Benefits: Salary from £31,930 per annum plus a £3,000 Market Supplement is available, DOE and Qualifications, Teacher’s pension, Retail and Leisure Discounts, excellent professional and personal development opportunities, accessing college courses.
Hours/Weeks: 37 hours per week
Contract Type: Permanent – Full Time
About the role:
We are currently seeking a Lecturer in Maths to join our Maths and English department at The Bedford College Group .
As a Lecturer, you play an important role in the success of our students through:
1. Teaching and Assessment - Prepare, deliver, and assess maths courses across various levels, ensuring high-quality learning experiences and meeting students' individual needs.
2. Curriculum Development - Contribute to curriculum development, prepare up-to-date schemes of work, and implement new learning materials.
3. Student Support - Guide students to achieve success, conduct tutorials, monitor progress, and prepare reports on student performance.
4. Administrative and Quality Processes - Complete administrative tasks, participate in course team meetings, implement quality processes, and contribute to course reviews.
5. Marketing and Safeguarding - Participate in marketing activities, ensure compliance with safeguarding, equality, and health and safety requirements, and engage in continuous training and development.
About you:
6. Qualifications and Experience - Relevant degree or Level 5 qualification in maths, willingness to achieve teaching certification, and recent experience teaching and assessing maths courses.
7. Skills and Abilities - Strong organizational skills, effective communication, ability to work independently and as part of a team, and proficiency in Microsoft Office.
8. Values and Attributes - Commitment to college values (Student Focus, High Performance, Respect, Openness, Honesty), promoting equality and diversity, and maintaining positive relationships.
9. Professional Development - Willingness to continuously update skills and knowledge, awareness of health and safety requirements, and commitment to professional development.
10. Additional Requirements - Flexible approach to work, safeguarding responsibilities, willingness to work at all college locations, and holding a current driving license with access to a vehicle.
For a more detailed breakdown of the job role and the requirements, please see the Job Description attached to this vacancy.
Interviews to be held: 04 April 2025
Successful candidates must also be able to demonstrate alignment to our organisational VISION values:
11. Valuing Teamwork - We are one team who by working together can achieve great things, respecting the opinion and valuing the contribution each of us makes.
12. Improving Continuously - We challenge ourselves to always do better by trying new things, sharing knowledge, reflecting on practice and learning from others.
13. Student Centred - At our heart is always doing what is best for our students. We consider students in all of our decision making to create positive outcomes and memorable experiences for every student.
14. Inclusive - We celebrate differences and diversity, recognising that we can learn from each other.
15. Open and Caring - We care about the wellbeing of our staff, our students, our community and wider society, creating an environment built on trust where we listen, engage with and support each other.
16. Nurturing Education Excellence - We promote educational excellence by delivering programmes that challenge our students to achieve their ambitions.
About Tresham College
Tresham College has three main sites in Corby, Kettering and Wellingborough, each with impressive modern buildings. Across our sites we offer a range of subjects including art & design, construction, engineering, motor vehicle, hairdressing and beauty therapy and more in support of our local communities.
About The Bedford College Group
The Bedford College Group was formed in 2017 following the merger of Bedford College and Tresham College and is now the largest provider of education in the South East Midlands, with over 15,000 students passing through our doors each year.
Today, the Group is made up of a family of colleges across Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire: Bedford College, Central Bedfordshire College and Tresham College in the towns of Bedford, Dunstable, Leighton Buzzard, Corby, Kettering and Wellingborough; Shuttleworth College, a specialist land-based college; The Bedford Sixth Form, (the only dedicated sixth form in Bedford); The Corby Sixth Form, (opened in September 2023); and the National College for Motorsport alongside Silverstone race circuit. To widen accessibility to education and training, the Group also has community-based Learning Centres in Bedford, Corby and Kettering which offer IT training.
Safeguarding our Students
The Bedford College Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to thorough vetting process which includes, an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory references.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975, provides information about which convictions must be declared during job applications and related exceptions and further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide. The Bedford College Group's policy on Employment of Ex-Offenders is attached to this vacancy.
Candidates who are barred from working with children are reminded it is a criminal offence to apply for this post.