Lecturer in Animal Care

**Lecturer in Animal Care**

**Permanent, Part Time 29.6 hours per week, 52 weeks per year**

**Salary: £25,678 - £35,776 per annum, pro rata (Dependant on skills, qualifications and experience)**

**Campus: Lackham, Wiltshire**

**About the Role**

Within our Land Based Studies faculty based at our stunning Lackham campus we have a vacancy for a Lecturer in Animal Care to join our team.

Set in 1600 acres of beautiful Wiltshire countryside, Lackham is the College’s specialist campus for land-based study. Having recently undergone a £9million redevelopment, the resources at Lackham include a large Animal Centre, 2 working farms, and a brand new Agri-tech centre.

As a Lecturer in Animal Care, you will teach on our highly successful Animal Management courses to students across Level, 2 and 3.

Enabling learners to maximise their potential, you will ensure your resource materials and teaching reflect best practice contributing to the quality of provision as measured by retention, attendance, success rates, progression, final grades, and value added.

**About You**

With an enthusiastic, motivated, and engaging approach you will have the theoretical and practical skills to energise students and support them to realise their goals.

We are interested in hearing from individuals who are effective team players, keen to build relationships that will enrich the student experience, participate in building networks for work placements, and have the desire to work collaboratively with the immediate and wider team and community.

**About Us**

Wiltshire College & University Centre plays a vital role in Wiltshire’s economy, inspiring people to develop the skills they need to achieve. Our four campuses are learning hubs in their communities, and we aspire to be an outstanding, financially robust and commercially agile provider, achieving our clear social mission on behalf of leaners and employers across Wiltshire and beyond. Our turnover is around £38 million per annum, we employ some 650 staff, and support around 11,500 students.

Our benefits include a competitive salary and 30 days annual leave for Professional Services Staff, 37 days annual leave for Academic Staff and 35 days annual leave for management staff (plus bank holidays and additional closure days over the Christmas period). You will also be automatically enrolled into either the Teachers' Pension Scheme or Local Government Pension Scheme, have access to our employee assistance programme (EAP) and enjoy other benefits such as discounts with a wide variety of retailers and free car parking onsite.

**Closing date: 04/06/23**

**Interview date: TBC**

**Information**

At Wiltshire College & University Centre we value diversity, and we recognise that people with different backgrounds bring different perspectives, ideas, knowledge, and culture, and that this difference brings great strength. We are committed to the protection of young people and vulnerable adults and to safeguarding and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

We are proudly accredited to the Disability Confident Employer award, part of this means a commitment to interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for a job vacancy and consider them on their abilities.

Please contact us with any queries.