Lecturer in Counselling

As one of the fastest-growing Colleges in the UK, delivering courses from entry level right up to Masters degrees, Weston College is an inspiring place to work. Why not join us as a Lecturer in Counselling?

This is a part time role, working 29.6 hours per week.

Day to day duties of the role

• Providing high-quality, innovative teaching, learning, assessment, and internal moderation across a range of Counselling courses.
• Foster effective and successful working relationships with industry professionals to enhance the learning and curriculum delivery.
• Contributing to the delivery, tracking, and monitoring of Maths and English performance amongst cohorts of students undertaking Counselling courses.
• Tutoring students, giving appropriate support and guidance to enable students to achieve their academic and vocational targets.

Required skills and qualifications

• Degree Qualification and / or Professional Qualification (or equivalent), which is appropriate to the work.
• Working knowledge of the Counselling industry.
• Relevant occupational experience in one or more of the following areas:- Mental health- Counselling and psychotherapy- Allied Health professionals
• All candidates for teaching posts must possess a recognised Teaching Qualification, or be prepared to gain this qualification within the first year of service (with the assistance of Weston College).

Benefits

• Generous holiday entitlement
• 2-week Christmas closurePotential for hybrid working opportunities
• Dedicated staff welfare officer and wellbeing champions
• Generous pension scheme
• Local and national staff discounts
• Free parking across sites
• Various staff committees including Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, Autism and Menopause
• Focus on staff wellbeing
• Wellbeing@weston hub
• Eye care including free eye test and a contribution towards glasses
• Annual staff conference with guest speakers
• Employee assistance programme - available 24/7, 365 days a year
• Training and development opportunities with a focus on progression

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

Please be aware that Weston College reserves the right to close this vacancy early should sufficient applications be received.

Due to the volume of recruitment, we are unable to offer feedback to any unsuccessful candidates.

We reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date if a sufficient number of applications have been received.