Lecturer - Course Leader - Health and Social

Join Colchester Institute – Where Your Career Makes a Difference

At Colchester Institute, we believe in the power of education to transform lives and communities. As one of the leading providers of education and training in the region, we are proud to offer a dynamic, supportive, and forward-thinking working environment.

We are seeking a dedicated Lecturer - Course Leader - Health and Social to join the team. In this role, you will undertake specific course leadership for FE Health and Social Care programmes and teaching a variety of units across the curriculum. The postholder will be accountable for the overall quality, coherence, and performance of the programme, ensuring the delivery of high-quality education that promotes academic excellence, student engagement, retention, and positive progression outcomes.

Job title: Lecturer - Course Leader - Health and Social

Full time, Colchester and Braintree

About the role:

• Designing schemes of work, assessing, preparation, delivery, marking, leading on student guidance and selection procedure, individual student tutoring and marking/promoting courses/attending open events.
• Further education course leadership elements as associated with Band 2 Lecturer role, including related pastoral, administrative and curriculum development responsibilities as part of the Areas’, Health & Social Care, Science and ESOL core team
• Work with Area Head, Assistant Area Head and other course leaders to ensure management of quality provision throughout the different programmes delivery teams.
• Maintain quality of provision by participating in ongoing internal verification procedures and processes and ensuring appropriate requirements for external verification, communicating outcomes to senior colleagues as required.
• Designing, developing, and reviewing curriculum materials in line with programme specifications and quality assurance frameworks.

Essential Experience:

• Experience of leading courses and/or curriculum development.
• Effective and consistent high quality teaching experience within Further and/or Higher Education and is able to teach across a range of courses.
• Able to demonstrate experience of working with learners with a wide range of needs.

Essential Qualifications:

• Education to degree level or above and/or a professional qualification in relevant subject area or equivalent
• Level 5 Teaching Qualification / completing within 3 years of employment or 3 years of the first available course.

Why join us?

At Colchester Institute, we value our staff and invest in their growth. Joining us means becoming part of a vibrant community dedicated to excellence in education and training. If you are passionate about making a difference and inspiring the next generation, we would love to hear from you.

We do not engage with recruitment or search agencies unless they have been officially contracted in line with our PSL.