Sports Lecturer

**Key facts**:

- **Full-time, permanent**:

- 37 hours per week_
- ** Salary**
£28,643 to £36,198, depending on qualifications and experience
- ** Closing date**:

- Sunday 14th April 2024_

Are you experienced in delivering practical indoor and outdoor sports activities and uniformed public/protective services? The successful applicant will be able to teach individual and team sports and have an active knowledge of fitness.

Teaching experience is desirable, but we are looking for someone who is confident in sharing their experience and knowledge with our students. We would support you in gaining a formal teaching qualification alongside your work with us.

**Summary of responsibilities**:

- To develop a stimulating and exciting programme for learners
- To manage and provide good quality teaching and learning to support student achievement
- To seek to ensure that student retention and achievement targets are met
- To contribute towards the college’s strategic objectives
- Provide a safe and healthy environment in which to work and learn
- Ensure a high quality of adequate resources and materials are provided to enhance learning, thereby enriching the opportunity and experience of learners
- Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults
- See the Job Description for full details._
- Job Description (41.517 KB)

**Why choose us?**:
Set within the Lake District's breathtaking UNESCO World Heritage site, Kendal College is an FE college that consistently punches above its weight on the national stage. Under the leadership of our new Principal, the college is embarking on a series of bold steps to grow the college and remain a top-notch education provider for Cumbria and the North West region. Our students focus on their learning, achieve high levels of attainment and consistently give us high satisfaction ratings. The college recognises the wellbeing of its staff as a priority, as well as ensuring that excellent work is appropriately identified and that a healthy work-life balance is maintained.

**What we offer**:

- A generous holiday entitlement
- Seven efficiency days per year (pro rata) in addition to your hard-earned holiday allocation
- Sick pay and pension scheme
- Support to help you transition into college life
- Excellent CPD opportunities so you can gain a formal teaching qualification whilst working with us and continue to grow and develop
- A college that promotes and supports flexible working
- Fantastic facilities and resources to support our students
- On-site canteens with locally sourced ingredients
- A cycle-to-work and electric car scheme
- A comprehensive staff awards, rewards and wellbeing scheme, including:

- Employee assistance program with Health Assured
- Discounted gym membership
- Local discounts
- Extensive retail discounts

**What we're looking for**:
As a college employee, you will be expected to embrace college values and implement college policies and procedures by:

- Seeing learners as our priority
- Embracing equal opportunities and respecting diversity
- Working cooperatively with colleagues
- Respecting and valuing the work of all our stakeholders
- Striving for continuous improvement
- Adhering to College policies and procedures
- Promoting the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults

**Qualifications**

**Essential**

**Desirable**
A recognized teaching qualification or be willing to obtain within 2 years of appointment
A degree or equivalent qualification in the related discipline
First aid
Sports/fitness based NGB qualification
English & Maths at level 2 (GCSE A* to C or equivalent)

**Experience**:
**Essential**

**Desirable**
Recent experience of teaching in an educational environment
Recent experience of teaching in an FE/HE environment
Recent experience of delivering practical indoor and outdoor sports activities
Experience of teaching BTEC or other AO uniformed public/protective services
Employment or volunteering within a protective service/sport or outdoor

**Knowledge & Skills**:
**Essential**

**Desirable**
Effective communication skills
Effective presentation skills
Effective use of ILT to promote teaching and learning and monitor learning
Good general knowledge of health and safety at work in an educational and the relevant vocational environment
Ability to provide high quality pastoral care to learners
Effective classroom management skills
Comprehensive current technical knowledge and skills commensurate with the required vocational delivery

**Right to work**:
**Safeguarding statement**: