Lecturers in Animal Management - Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom - Ashford College

Description

EKC Group are looking for a Lecturer of Countryside Management to work in the Animal and Land-Based department at EKC Canterbury College and Spring Lane.

As a Lecturer of Countryside Management, you will teach, train, and assess students at our Spring Lane and New Dover Road campuses, ensuring a high-quality learning experience.

Your role will also include providing support to learners to enable them to achieve their maximum potential and to lead as appropriate on designated study programmes and/or courses, with a key responsibility for ensuring the design, delivery, and evaluation of programme.

We pride ourselves in the support we can give those who are new to teaching, with ongoing training and coaching through our Teacher Academy.

So, if you do not have any teaching experience or teacher qualifications but have a passion for sharing your knowledge and would like to be considered for this teaching role please apply.

Competitive holiday entitlement
Days off for moving home and child's first school day.
Store, retail, and gym discounts.
Cycle to work scheme.

Opportunity to progress, train and develop - we have a fantastic teaching programme and CPD opportunities across the group.

Generous teacher pension scheme.
Laptop provided to every staff member.
They will have knowledge and experience with both countryside management theory and practical countryside estate skills tasks.

Ideal candidates will hold a minimum of a Level 4 or higher qualification in Countryside Management or a similar related subject (candidates who do not hold the qualification should have experience and knowledge of countryside management topics and estates activities).

Candidates will demonstrate their willingness to learn new skills to support learners on the Countryside programmes.

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.

The successful candidate will be able to teach a range of designated study programs and/ or courses from Level 1 up to Level 3 and will be able to motivate learners to achieve and succeed on their programmes of study.

You could qualify for the 'Taking Teaching Further' scheme.

This could help you with paid study time and additional support in your new role, so you can complete your teaching qualification alongside your work.

Employees can move up the salary scale once one full academic year of teaching for our group is complete, subject to approval.

Therefore, internal applicants may qualify for the higher salary scale, although should seek clarification.
Outstanding Ofsted Provider
East Kent Colleges Group is an Ofsted Outstanding rated provider.

It is proud to be the first General Further Education college organisation in the country to have received the Outstanding grade against each of the strands under the new Ofsted inspection framework.

As an inclusive provider, our colleagues place our students and the communities we serve at the heart of everything they do across EKC Group and this is illustrated in our 'Strong' skills grading by Ofsted.

EKC Group is 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.

We therefore have an obligation to carry out robust checks to ensure that staff are suitable to work with children and vulnerable adults; If you are successful in obtaining an interview, your suitability to work with children and vulnerable adults will be explored as part of the interview process.

Applicants should note that 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.

All applicants are required to complete and submit a self-declaration of their criminal record or information that would make them unsuitable to work with children and vulnerable adults.

EKC 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; 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.

We do not engage with agencies for permanent staff and have an in-house recruitment team.
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