Lecturer - Engineering

**Please note this is a part time vacancy and requires the successful candidate to work 30 hours per week, with a pro rata salary of £28,160 up to £30,882**

 Engineers, Technicians, Machinists… time to start your future in education

You may have experience in a different engineering field, and we’re interested in how you can tailor your knowledge to teach our students.

This is the perfect place to start your education and teaching career and you don’t need to have worked in an education setting before!  

If you don’t have a teaching qualification, we’ll support you and give you the skills to teach. We’ll support you in your training and give you time during your working week to get the qualification. For more information, have a look at our Teaching Academy page. 

Working in Further Education isn’t the same as working in a secondary school, you’ll be supporting adults and young people in practical environments and machine workshops with lathes, CNC and Milling Machines.  

What does a typical day look like?

• You’ll provide learning/technical support to staff and students, undertaking assessment and quality checking duties.
• You’ll be liaising with internal and external customers and managers.
• You’ll be providing feedback to students that will aid successful progression and achievement.
• You’ll manage stock control, ordering and issuing of supplies.

Alongside our priority of excellent student experience, we also focus on our employees. Here are just some of our Benefits when working for the East Kent Colleges Group:

• Competitive salary and holiday entitlement 
• If new to teaching, you will benefit from £7000 investment in your teacher training when you come straight from industry
• Access to 100's of online discounts via our Rewards Scheme (Inc. Restaurant, Grocery, Retail, Gym, Holidays)
• Access to cycle to work, car leasing and tech purchasing schemes
• Generous pension scheme - 28% employer contribution
• Being part of a company with an Eco-Sustainability focus of being Net-Zero
• Time off for your child's first day at school, moving home and for interviews
• My 10 Days initiative - bid for up-to 10 days off work to pursue voluntary work
• Being part of Community Days and Annual Staff Celebration Day 

• Machine shop experience as the role will see you teaching lathes, CNC machines etc.
• You’ll be organised and creative with the ability to plan and teach engaging and innovative lessons.
• You will have a level 3 qualification in your engineering discipline. 
• With your engineering knowledge, you can assess and track students’ progress, to further plan intervention. You’ll ensure all students develop the skills they need to succeed. 
• If you’re not a qualified teacher, ideally you would have experience in delivering training in the workplace, however this isn’t essential as training can be provided.
• You must have a positive outlook and be empathetic towards learners.

You 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 

We have a short online application process, and you don’t need an up-to-date CV. Click Apply today and we’ll get back to you once the advert closes.

Please contact the Resourcing Team at [email protected] if you have any queries about this position.  

Please note that there are two salary scale points for our Lecturer positions. All candidates will start at the introductory salary scale point unless certain criteria are met. 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. 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.

Commitment to Safeguarding

We are 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.

As a designated establishment, we are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore have an obligation to carry out checks to ensure that staff are suitable to work with children and vulnerable adults. These checks include conviction/caution self-declaration, Enhanced DBS check and obtaining sufficient referencing.

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.

If you are successful in being shortlisted to interview, your suitability to work with children and vulnerable adults will be explored as part of the interview process.

Commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

East Kent Colleges 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 and are a Disability Confident Employer. 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. With any successful candidate, we will explore any reasonable adjustments to a role due to a health needs or disability.

Similarly, we have a commitment to Care Leavers (Care Covenant Pledge) and to current or previous Armed Forces personnel (Armed Forces Covenant Pledge) with a commitment to interview applicants who meet the positions essential criteria and who have declared this on their application. 

We welcome applications from anyone wishing to work flexibly and those considering a return to work from a career break.

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