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Lecturer of Business

Application deadline
May 16, 2025 9:00 am
Department
Business and Digital
Employment type
Permanent
32 hours
Location
Telford College - Wellington, Telford
Salary
£43,038 DOE
£29,152 - £43,038 Full Time Equivalent
Reporting to
Learner Manager
Potential interview date
Vacancy reference
VN1113
About the role

Telford College have an exciting opportunity for a passionate and experienced Business Studies Lecturer to join our expanding and dynamic Business & Digital Department. As part of a fast-growing team, you will play a key role in delivering high-quality teaching across a range of courses designed to meet the diverse needs of our learners.

We are seeking individuals with expertise in Accounting, Business, or Computing, and with experience of teaching at lecturer or teacher level. Our department offers a broad and varied provision, including full-time, part-time, and apprenticeship programmes, ranging from pre-employment to Higher Technical Qualifications. As such, this role offers a unique opportunity to work with learners at all stages of their educational journey.

With achievement and student numbers increasing year on year, we’re looking for committed and forward-thinking individuals who can contribute to our continued success. If you’re enthusiastic about helping learners develop the skills and knowledge they need to thrive in industry, we’d love to hear from you.

Interview dates will be between 21/05/2025 and 23/05/2025

Key Responsibilities
  • Deliver and teach on all Business related qualification from Level 1 to Higher National Diploma to agreed success targets. This may include Business Administration and Accounting courses.
  • Regularly review and monitor the attendance and progress of learners and follow up as required to ensure learners achieve their targets.
  • Carry out, collate and feedback initial and/or diagnostic assessments to identify students’ ILP and support as required, providing differentiated learning strategies to enable students to achieve their primary learning goal.
  • Provide assignment and assessment material appropriate to each specific programme.
  • Evaluate and assess (formative and summative) the work of learners in relation to the curriculum criteria and provide timely constructive and helpful learner feedback.
  • Maintain quality systems related to the teaching of Business including designing work schemes, lesson plans, assessment plans and assessment activities.
  • Update and maintain electronic documentation to support teaching and learning, assessment and tracking of learner progress.
Skills, knowledge and expertise

Qualifications and training

  • Teaching qualification, e.g. Cert Ed, PGCE or DTLLs, or a firm commitment to achieve a Diploma in Education and Training (DET)
  • Possess an appropriate degree or equivalent in a relevant subject
  • Hold an Assessors qualification (A1 or equivalent)
  • Hold IQA qualifications (V1 or equivalent)

Skills and expertise

  • Successful experience of teaching in the subject area
  • Relevant professional experience
  • Proven track record of supporting learners as individuals
  • Good IT skills
  • Strong commitment to participate in staff development programme
How to Apply

We look forward to receiving your application and knowing more about your qualifications, skills, personal qualities and experience that you would bring to the role and to Telford College. Please take time to review the job description.

Please complete the online application form with details of your full employment history (since leaving school, including education, employment and voluntary work) including reasons for any gaps in employment. This should also include a statement of the personal qualities and experience you believe are relevant to your suitability for the post and how this meets the job description and person specification requirements. Your application form will be re-produced in a standard format by the system (without personal identifiers) to assist us in our anonymised shortlisting process.

Under Section 7 of SVGA 2006 it is an offence to apply for the role if the applicant is barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. The college’s safeguarding policies are available here. Under KCSIE (keeping children safe in education) guidance the college is committed to all pre-employment safeguarding checks, including online checks and candidate history. Therefore, please note upon clicking to apply you agree for these checks to be completed.