English Lecturer - 3 positions available - #189600

AIM AND PURPOSE OF THE JOB

The purpose of the role is to plan and deliver high quality teaching, learning and assessment in either GCSE or functional skills English to learners across a range of curriculum areas including 16-18 study programme and adult provision. The postholder will undertake administrative and developmental duties that contribute to improving standards and achievements and maximise the learner experience within their Mathematics study.

KEY ROLES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES

• To deliver high quality innovative and engaging teaching, learning and assessment to a range of learners as part of their programme of study by:

• planning, preparing, teaching and assessing as required by your line manager providing students with a well-planned, sufficiently individualised learning and assessment experience.
• effectively managing and monitoring the learning process.
• proving regular assessment opportunities.
• providing timely and constructive feedback.
• guiding and supporting learners to achieve their learning goals.

• To work within the English team to proactively raise learner aspirations and improve achievements for all learners from their starting points.
• To conduct initial and diagnostic assessments of all learners to determine starting points and develop learning plans to enable them to make progress from their starting points.
• To conduct milestone assessments as agreed with the Head of English and provide feedback within the agreed timescale, ensuring feedback supports learners to improve.
• To teach an agreed programme of hours across any of the campuses including revision and intervention sessions.
• Produce and develop teaching resources to support your delivery including schemes of work and lesson plans.
• Keep accurate and timely information about learner attendance, achievement and progress to be shared with the Head of English, CRQ leaders and directors, parents and learners.
• To liaise and work with vocational teams and CRQ leaders to address issues with learner attendance, behaviour and engagement to maximise progress and achievements.
• To attend staff meetings to develop and improve the curriculum.
• Support learner progress evenings through the production of reports and meeting with parents and vocational teaching teams.
• To take part in administrative activities to support the learning of English delivery by supporting the collection and collation of data relating to learner's entry qualifications when establishing groups at the start of the year and in ensuring group lists are accurate and up to date throughout the year.
• Take part in verification and standardisation activities where required.
• Keep up to date with developments and qualifications in the areas of English.
• Where appropriate, liaise with other departments (e.g., Exams and MIS).

GENERAL ACCOUNTABILITIES

• To commit to the safeguarding and promotion of the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults.
To participate in the College’s Performance Management Scheme and attend such training events as are necessary to enable him/her to carry out the duties of the
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• To continually improve teaching, learning and assessment through proactive CPD and sharing best practice.
• To actively participate in the College’s Quality System, including quality improvement strategies and initiatives.
  
• To undertake such other duties as may be assigned commensurate with the grade and purpose of the post.
• To take reasonable care for the health and safety of him/her and for others affected by his/her work.
• To actively support College Safeguarding, Equality and Diversity policies.
  
• To operate/conduct all HR tasks and functions within the principles of GDPR.

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  This is current at the date shown below and is a guide to the work you will be required to undertake. In consultation with the post holder, it may be changed from time to time by the College to meet changing circumstances.

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  CONDITIONS OF SERVICE – Academic staff

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  The appointment is subject to the Conditions of Service for Academic Staff. The work pattern of a Lecturer is not necessarily linked to the traditional academic year.

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  All successful applicants will undergo the following checks:

• • Enhanced DBS
  • 2 x References, one of which must be your current or most recent employer
  • Qualification validation check.

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  SALARY

• The salary range for this post is from £26,687 to £30,753 per annum/pro rata for unqualified lecturers and £31,503 to £41,413 per annum/pro rata for qualified lecturers. Starting salary will be dependent upon experience and qualifications. Once you have successfully passed your probationary period, your salary will increase within the salary band on an annual incremental basis, until you reach the top of the salary scale. Increments are in August.

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  TEACHING QUALIFICATION

• Applicants are required to hold an appropriate teaching qualification or be willing to undertake and gain the Certificate in Education and Training within 2 years of their appointment. Successful applicants will be required to attend the course on-site as the College delivers the course in-house.

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• Please note – whilst obtaining a teaching qualification is a contractual requirement, the College reviews its CPD budget on an annual basis regarding availability of funds and cannot therefore guarantee that newly appointed staff will receive either part or full funding for the course fees. However, student loan facilities are available.

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  MATHS AND ENGLISH

• All staff are required to have a minimum level 2 qualification in both English and Maths. If you are not already in receipt of one or both qualifications, you will be expected to obtain them during your employment at the College.

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  SAFEGUARDING

• The College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults, and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

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  All newly appointed staff will be required to undertake safeguarding training following their appointment.
  
  

• Heart of Worcestershire College adheres to the Department of Education’s guidance on ‘Keeping children safe in Education’. As part of your induction, you will be required to read and understand part 1 of this document.

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  VALIDATION OF QUALIFICATIONS

• The College will undertake qualification validation by writing to the appropriate educational institute. Only those qualifications which are essential for the post will be followed up.

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  HOURS OF WORK

• We currently have 3 vacancies available, offering a range of working hours: 14.8 hours per week, 18.5 hours per week and 29.6 hours per week. Actual hours of work and desk duty time will be agreed with your manager. Please specify in your application what hours you would prefer.

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  ANNUAL LEAVE

• The post carries 37 annual leave days with an additional eight public bank holidays plus a further five concessionary days as ‘leave to be taken at the principal’s discretion’. Annual leave will be pro rata if part time.

• Please note that only in exceptional circumstances, with your director’s permission, will staff be able to take more than 3 consecutive weeks of leave in any leave year.

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  PENSION SCHEME

• The College operates an occupational pension scheme, namely the ‘Teachers Pensions’.

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  PROBATIONARY PERIOD

• All newly appointed staff must serve a 9-month probationary period. During the probationary period you will have to complete the corporate staff induction, a Teaching and Learning Induction session if you deliver learning and additional mandatory courses on: Equality & Diversity session, Keeping Children safe in Education, Safeguarding Training session, Prevent, GDPR, Cyber Security and Health & Safety training session. Failure to complete this will prevent you from successfully completing your probation.

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  REFERENCES

• All candidates must have 2 satisfactory references.

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  LOCATION

• The successful applicant will be based at either Redditch or Bromsgrove but may be required to work at other locations from time to time. Please specify your preferred location in your application.

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  RECRUITMENT OF EX-OFFENDERS

• The College is committed to the fair treatment of its staff, potential staff or users of its services, regardless of race, gender religion, sexual orientation, responsibilities for dependants, age, physical/mental disability or offending background.

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  As an organisation we use the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) to assess the suitability of all prospective appointments. We undertake not to discriminate unfairly against any subject of a Disclosure on the basis of conviction or other information revealed.

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  Applicant/employees are required to declare any unspent conditional cautions or convictions under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 or any adult cautions (simple or conditional) or spent convictions that are not protected as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020’. The only exception to this requirement is that applicants/employees do not need to disclose any ‘protected’ cautions, or convictions as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2013.

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  Please read the ‘Guidance Note to applicants on disclosing information about cautions and convictions in their application’ document before you complete your application form.

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  Having a criminal record will not necessarily bar you from working with us. This will depend on the nature of the position and the circumstances and background of any offences.

• DISCLOSURE & BARRING CHECK

• All successful applicants will be required to complete and pay for a Disclosure & Barring Service check. The costs of this check will be deducted from the applicants first salary payment from the College. The College adheres to the DBS Code of Practice and has policies covering the Recruitment of Ex-Offenders and the Secure Storage, Handling, Use, Retention and Disposal of Disclosures and Disclosure Information. Copies of these are available on request.

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  TRAINING

• All successful applicants will be required to undertake all mandatory training and update sessions and any appropriate training and development as required, including Health and Safety.

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  NO SMOKING POLICY

• HoW College is a Smoke Free environment from the effects of direct/indirect contact with smoking, including using the following:

• • Cigarettes
  • E-cigarettes
  • Vaporisers
  • Pipe smoking
  • Cigars
  • And all other associated smoking products.

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• APPLICATIONS

• Please submit a completed application form on our website. We will not accept a Curriculum vitae as a substitute.

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  It would greatly assist the shortlisting panel if the information submitted on your application clearly identifies and demonstrates how your qualities match those listed under the essential requirements on the person specification.

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  Please remember that it is not sufficient to merely repeat what is in the specification – you must show how you meet each requirement. You must also provide details under ‘previous employment’ which must include all employment undertaken since leaving full time education.

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  Completed application forms should be submitted by 18th June 2026 via our website at www.howcollege.ac.uk

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  INTERVIEWS

• The Interview date for this post is; TBC, short-listed candidates will be notified with the details for interview. In view of the high cost of postage, it is not our intention to notify unsuccessful applicants. If you have not heard from us within four weeks of the closing date, please assume that your application has been unsuccessful and accept our thanks for your interest in applying. College reserves the right to withdraw a position before the closing date if the appointment has been arranged or no longer required.

• DATA PROTECTION/GENERAL DATA PROTECTION REGULATION (GDPR)

• Please be aware that HoW College complies with the current Data Protection Act and is currently developing systems to ensure that we will be fully compliant with GDPR when this comes into force in May 2018. GDPR is a European wide update to the Data Protection Act, with more requirements and stronger enforcement. As such we expect all staff to fully comply with the requirements of this legislation. Failure to do so will lead to formal disciplinary action.

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  Members of staff will be provided with guidance in relation to GDPR to ensure that full compliance is achieved and maintained within the College.

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  Further information can be obtained by using the following link:

• https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protection/guide-to-the-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr/

Requirements

Attainment (e.g. Qualifications, Experience)

Essential:

• • Level 2 (at least) qualification in both Maths and English, or a willingness to gain.
• • GCSE (or equivalent) qualification in English (as appropriate for the position applied for).
• • A degree or appropriate academic qualification.
• • A recognised teaching qualification (or one must be obtained within a specified period).

Desirable:

• • Level 5 Specialist Teaching Diploma in Literacy/Numeracy.
• • Higher Degree qualification.

General Skills

Essential:

• • Recent or current experience of teaching GCSE English.
• • Proven track record in Mathematics delivery.

Desirable:

• • Experience of teaching GCSE Mathematics within a further education context.

Specific Special Skills

Essential:

• • Ability and willingness to investigate and develop new delivery styles, tools and methods including ILT to engage learners and enhance their experience and improve progress and achievements.
• • Ability to engage in effective verbal and written communication with a range of staff, learners, parents/carers.
• • Strong organisational skills.
• • Effective time management.
• • Understand GCSE and functional skills curriculum model.

Desirable:

• • First Aid Trained, or willingness to undertake the training and remain up to date.

Disposition/Personal Qualities

Essential:

• • Be willing and able to work across all HOW College campuses and be able to travel independently to different sites.

Desirable:

No Desirable Disposition/Personal Qualities

General Points

Essential:

No Essential General Points

Desirable:

No Desirable General Points