Maths and English Lecturer

About The Role

Your Skills, Their Success, Supporting the Community's Future - Join us as a Lecturer

As a Lecturer of English and / or Maths at EKC Folkestone College you will teach, train and assess students in a variety of learning environments, ensuring a high-quality learning experience. Your role will also include providing support to learners to enable them to achieve their maximum potential and to lead as appropriate on designated study programmes and/or courses, with a key responsibility for ensuring the design, delivery and evaluation of programme.

Although this post is advertised as full time, we would be pleased to give consideration to any ideal candidates seeking a part time role in either subject. We pride ourselves in the support we can give those who are new to teaching, with ongoing training and coaching through our Teacher Academy which includes digital skills support. So, if you do not have any teaching experience or teacher qualifications but have a passion for sharing your knowledge and would like to be considered for this teaching role.

Alongside our priority of excellent student experience, we also focus on our employees. Check out our benefits when working for the East Kent Colleges Group.

You’ll be a highly organised and creative educator, with the ability to plan and deliver engaging, innovative lessons that inspire learners.

You’ll have strong interpersonal skills, a positive and empathetic approach, and the confidence to manage a classroom effectively.

You will have a strong background in teaching Functional Skills English / Maths from entry level to level 2 and/or GCSE English / Maths teaching experience.

Tracking student progress and using this to plan targeted support and interventions will be a key part of your role.

Informal Enquiries For an informal discussion or any queries, please email

Please note that there are two salary scale points for our Lecturer positions. All candidates will start at the introductory salary scale point unless certain criteria are met.

Lecturerswill normally move up to the highest salary scale onceonefull academic yearof teaching for our group is complete.(Lecturers must be in post by 1stSeptember in any given year to qualify and this is subject to approval). Therefore, internal applicant sin the same rolemay qualify for the higher salary scale, although should seek clarification

Outstanding Ofsted Provider East Kent Colleges Group is an Ofsted Outstanding rated provider. It is proud to be the first General Further Education college organisation in the country to have received the Outstanding grade against each of the strands under the new Ofsted inspection framework. An inclusive provider, our colleagues place our students and the communities we serve at the heart of everything they do across EKC Group and this is illustrated in our ‘Strong’ skills grading by Ofsted.

Commitment to Safeguarding We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and we ensure that all staff are aware of their responsibilities for upholding these principles.

As a designated establishment, we are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore have an obligation to carry out checks to ensure that staff are suitable to work with children and vulnerable adults. These checks include conviction/caution self-declaration, Enhanced DBS check and obtaining sufficient referencing.

It is a criminal offence to apply for a post which involves engaging in regulated activity relevant to children if you are barred from doing so.

If you are successful in being shortlisted to interview, your suitability to work with children and vulnerable adults will be explored as part of the interview process.

Commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion East Kent Colleges Group is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all members of our communities. We are particularly keen to increase the diversity of our staff body and encourage applications from candidates where there is under representation in our workforce.

We are proud to hold the Positive About Disability Award and are a Disability Confident Employer
. This confirms our commitment to interviewing all applicants who declare that they have a disability and who meet the essential criteria outlined in the person specification. With any successful candidate, we will explore any reasonable adjustments to a role due to a health needs or disability.

Similarly, we have a commitment to Care Leavers (Care Covenant Pledge) and to current or previous Armed Forces personnel (Armed Forces Covenant Pledge) with a commitment to interview applicants who meet the positions essential criteria and who have declared this on their application.

We welcome applications from anyone wishing to work flexibly and those considering a return to work from a career break.

We do not engage with agencies for permanent staff and have an in-house recruitment team.