Posted 1 week ago
Only considering candidates eligible to work in Grantham, UK ⚠️
Computing Lecturer
Job Reference: CL/09.2024
Salary: This is a full time role with a salary of up to £34,325 per annum.
Working Hours: 33 hours per week over 4 days, working one in four Fridays, 52 weeks per year.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Computing Lecturer to join our Computing department.
It is a particularly exciting time to join Grantham College’s Computing team with new state-of-the-art facilities and equipment. Higher-level computing is at the centre of our new £2.6m Institute of Technology (IoT): a prestigious and high-quality centre delivering higher level technical education in digital and engineering, with a clear route to high-skilled employment. There are also opportunities for the successful candidate to lead on IoT-linked short courses, and digital bootcamps. We have expanded our digital portfolio to include T-Level digital production, HTQ computing, systems development, digital technologies, and cloud computing.
The purpose of the role is to demonstrate a high quality professional practice and provide quality teaching, assessing and learning at a variety of levels with a focus on online level 2 computing qualifications, T Level Digital Production Design and Development, HTQ Level 4 and HTQ Level 5 Computing. Devise teaching plans and maintain appropriate records.
If you are in the first 5 years of your FE teaching career and meet the eligibility criteria you may receive retention incentive payments of up to £6,000. Please ask us for more details.
The successful applicant must have:
- Experience of teaching computing on FE vocational, BTEC Diplomas and digital T Levels
- Good first degree/ HND in a relevant field, such as Computing or Computer Science
- Teaching qualification or working towards
- Knowledge of programming language, including Object Orientated and event Driven which must include Python; relational databases (e.g Microsoft Access, MySQL, SQLite) and SQL;
- Knowledge of Full stack web development including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP or Python and MySQL
- Experience writing lesson plans, schemes of work and assessing work.
This role requires you to engage in regulatory activity in the FE sector. The full definition of regulatory activity is set out in the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 as amended by the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012. Regulated activity includes teaching, instructing, caring for or supervising children if the person is unsupervised.
Fancy a 4-day working week*?
Grantham College operate a 4-day working week. Staff benefit from a reduction in working hours with full pay. You will work core hours (based on a full-time equivalent contract) of Monday to Thursday, working a Friday morning once a month.
Grantham College experience positive benefits from the 4-day week, including improvement to staff wellbeing and morale. We have also seen benefits in terms of reduced staff turnover leading to greater consistency of performance for our students and apprentices. The number of staff sickness absence days has reduced alongside the energy usage for the college and therefore its carbon emissions. We have also seen improvements in key quality indicators such as student attendance and retention and we are confident this will feed through into improved achievement rates and more positive outcomes for our students.
What we offer you in return:
- An excellent pension scheme with an Employer Contribution of 28.68%
- A continued professional development programme of up to £750 per academic year
- In addition to the 8 Bank Holidays a year, a generous annual leave allowance of 7.4 weeks for Academic employees,
- Generous occupational sick pay scheme after one years service
- Family friendly policies, including up to 5 paid occasions for time off for dependants within a 12 month period, after the first year of service
- Up to five college closure days in December in addition to annual leave
The closing date for all applications will be Sunday 15 December 2024.
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Please note that due to the volume of applications we receive we will only be able to contact candidates who have been selected for interview. You are welcome to download a full application pack and return your completed application to [email protected]
Please note that we do not accept CV’s by way of application or online application via other websites, you must complete a Grantham College application form. Grantham College are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. All employment offers are subject to a self-funded satisfactory enhanced DBS check. The successful applicant will have a deduction of £49.50 taken from payroll. We are committed to diversity, equity and inclusion and welcome applications from all sections of the community.
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