Lecturer – Health and Social Care

Are you looking for a rewarding job within the education sector? We are looking for Lecturer in Health and Social Care and Childcare to join Buckinghamshire College Group, based at our Wycombe Campus. Working hours are 28 hours per week / 52 weeks per year.

As a Lecturer in Health and Social Care and Childcare you will be educating and engaging our students, preparing them for careers in a variety of work-related areas such as supporting someone during palliative care or helping families and children, the skills deliver in our Health and Social Care Courses will give students the skills and knowledge to achieve success in this sector.

The successful candidate will:

• Promote high levels of student ambition leading to positive progression
• Plan and develop highly effective teaching in subjects areas required
• Contribute to the colleges pursuit of excellence by delivering high quality teaching
• Plan and deliver highly effective learning programmes for diverse and individual students, ensuring they are stretched and challenged to reach their full potential

We will encourage you to develop new skills and expand your opportunities within the college. We are also flexible and accommodating, allowing you to be as productive as possible. While working at Buckinghamshire College Group you can also take advantage of a host of employee benefits including:

• Pension scheme - TPS (23.68 % employers' contribution)
• 35-holiday entitlement & Additional annual leave purchase scheme
• Free onsite parking
• A wide range of learning - access to free training & continuous professional development
• Discounts in the Aylesbury Day Nursery & Aylesbury Salon Intuition
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
• Cycle to work and local business employee corporate discount schemes

Here at Buckinghamshire College Group, we are passionate about helping people of all ages and abilities to achieve their learning goals and life aspirations. You will find a warm welcome at all of our campuses in; Aylesbury, Amersham and High Wycombe, where we are a thriving community of over 590 Staff and 7,000 students and we are sure that whatever your aspirations and career goals, we can help you to achieve them.

This College does one of the most important jobs in the country - educating people of all ages to help them to succeed in life and create the skills society needs. Moreover, we do it well. We have high standards, with good success rates for students and more students joining us each year.

Our staff are the most important resource that the College has in securing this success. We therefore value our staff highly and offer a competitive reward and benefits package.

We hope you will want to be part of Buckinghamshire College Group and we very much look forward to welcoming you.

Taking Teaching Further

The College actively engages with the Education & Training Foundation’s Taking Teaching Further scheme to recruit industry professionals to teach within Further Education.

As industry professionals offer our students industry experience and insight we support our unqualified teachers to learn ‘on the job’. You will be given full support throughout your development to fully qualified teacher status. Whilst in employment you would be enrolled onto the Level 3 Award in Education and training. After completion you can choose to move be onto our Level 5 Diploma in Education and Training qualification. This is a great way for experienced professionals to achieve a recognised teaching qualification whilst in employment.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early, if we receive sufficient applications or source a suitable candidate. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

Only completed applications will be considered for this role. All applicants will need to complete an application form via our College Website

Closing date for applications is the 26th April 2023, with interviews taking place on the 11th May 2023