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Salary between £42,430 and £46,796.50. (Inc technical allowance and dependent on qualifications)

37 hours per week

The working pattern is Monday to Thursday 7.5 hours per day, Friday 7 hours per day

52 weeks per annum

Abingdon Campus

Permanent

Are you an experienced Plumbing Lecturer looking to pass on your skills and knowledge to the next generation? If so, we want to hear from you!

Our Abingdon campus is looking for a dedicated plumbing lecturer to support and train our students to move them into their futures. A experienced lecturer will be able to focus on the delivery of full-time study programmes for predominantly 16–18-year-olds and our highly regarded full cost evening courses for anyone to join and improve their skills.

The candidate will also be able to support Full-time students develop their workplace skills that we know are in high demand; like punctuality, teamwork, and communication, with a goal of progressing our students into their chosen next step, be it a higher level of study at college, university, an apprenticeship at our brand-new Construction Skills Centre in Bicester, or full-time employment.

You will be working in our purpose-built teaching spaces be that workshops or classrooms which are professional environments and working alongside our experienced team of trainers who cover plumbing, electrical installation and

testing and both Site Carpentry and Joinery and Bench Joinery. Working as part of an enthusiastic, and highly committed team you will work with students in the classroom and workshops.

If you have not taught or demonstrated practical skills before, then do not worry – no teaching qualifications are necessary! We will help you to qualify if you want to – what we ask to start with is that you are enthusiastic and passionate about transferring your skills on to the next generation of industry professionals. We can teach you to teach!

If you are already an experienced lecturer, then our award-winning Teaching Skills Academy will help you to develop your teaching skills further and our Leadership Development Academy can support you into management, if that is your next

step. Our new facilities and supportive friendly culture really help us to stand out as a Further Education employer – you will definitely notice the difference! For the right candidate, this post could be available on a fixed term or permanent basis, with full or part-time hours.

Although a teaching qualification is an advantage, training opportunities exist within the College and we can support you in gaining your Award in Education and Training Level 3 Qualification (AET), within your first year of joining the college.

In return, Abingdon & Witney College offer excellent benefits to our employees including generous pension and holiday schemes (with potential Christmas closure days), continued professional development, flexible working options, corporate gym membership, cycle/tech scheme and much more.

Closing date: 5th January 2025 (Midnight)

*Abingdon and Witney College reserve the right to close all applications before posted closing date

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No candidate will meet every single desired qualification / criteria. If your experience looks a little different from what we've identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we'd love to learn more about you!

AWC values diversity and encourages applications from all sections of the community. We are committed to safeguarding and expect all our employees and volunteers to share this commitment. We are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and all appointments are subject to satisfactory clearances including enhanced DBS checks.

Abingdon and Witney College are committed to safer recruitment practices. In addition to our pre-employment checks, we will conduct an online search. This includes checking Google main results feed as well as the ‘News’ and ‘Images’ tab. We will be checking for any publicly available information that suggests the applicant may not be suitable to work with children or young/vulnerable people or content that could potentially damage Abingdon and Witney College’s reputation. This may include inappropriate posts, comments or images displaying evidence of offensive or inappropriate behaviour, jokes or language, discriminatory comments, inappropriate photos, drug or alcohol misuse