Teacher of Business Studies
Woking College
Surrey
- Expired
- Salary:
- £21,684 to £37,008 per annum, on Sixth Form Colleges’ Association Teaching Scale plus £974 allowance per annum
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- Required for September 2015
- Apply by:
- 22 April 2015
Job overview
The College requires a Teacher of Business Studies teach Business Studies to AS and A2 level, as well as BTEC Level 2 and 3.
Applications from NQTs and Teachers in Schools and Sixth Form College sectors are welcome. A full mentoring programme is organised to introduce all new staff to sixth form college systems and procedures and to support and encourage professional development.
The Business Studies Department is a vibrant and highly successful area of the College. Student recruitment numbers have grown rapidly over the last few years and the department now incorporates almost half of the College. The department hosts a range of extra-curricular activities which have included trips to Thorpe Park, Disneyland Paris and Barcelona as well as visits to universities and Young Enterprise. The department has also enjoyed success in a number of external competitions including Bank of England Target 2.0, the Stock Market Challenge held by Reading University and the Marketing Challenge held by Surrey County Council.
As a direct result of the growth in student numbers, the department was recently split into two separate areas for A Level courses and Vocational courses. Our students value the support the department offers including regular study support workshops, the Easter revision conference and the personalised support and target setting. A significant number of our students go on to study business related courses at university and return to the college to keep in touch with us as well as providing guidance and support to students aspiring to higher education.
Closing date: 9am on Wednesday 22 April 2015
Interviews: to be held in week commencing 27 April or week commencing 4 May 2015
To Apply: Please download the Teacher of Business Studies Job Description & Person Specification from our website www.woking.ac.uk
Apply by completing and returning the Application Form to:
Kirsty Crook,
Woking College,
Rydens Way,
Woking
GU22 9DL.
Tel: 01483 227438
Fax: 01483 728144
Email: kcr@woking.ac.uk
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About Woking College
Woking College is an oversubscribed and highly successful college of over 1400 students drawing students from more than 60 different schools. Our very successful strategic focus has, for many years, been to create the very best environment for high quality of teaching and learning alongside the widest range of enrichment activities enhancing the cultural capital of our students. Alongside this we place a very strong emphasis on maintaining our wonderful community, we have a more diverse College population than might be thought of as typical for Surrey but we are determined to maintain our inclusive ethos. We are fully committed to innovation whilst maintaining a humane and caring approach for all members of the College community which has resulted in the doubling of the student population in recent years. These approaches have been key to securing Grade 1 ‘Outstanding’ in all seven categories in our October 2022 Ofsted inspection.
Woking College is enjoying record results, very positive value-added and an abundance of applications and quite rightly has a teaching and learning culture which is the envy of other institutions, indeed in recent staff surveys over 95% of College staff said they were proud to work at Woking College!
We have benefited hugely from an impressive transformation of the College’s estate over recent years, with the completion of a new Sports Centre in 2014, a new Arts Block in 2015 and a modern and larger Science Building in 2016. A full size 3G pitch was completed in 2020. A £3m teaching block and another £3m project working collaboratively with an adjacent community centre will enhance our estate even further within this academic year.
We recognise the advantages of collaboration and have worked hard over the years to build and maintain close working relationships with other education providers and the Local Authority. The College has been a long-standing member of S7, the Surrey and Sussex group of Sixth Form Colleges, possibly the leading college consortium nationally, and we look forward to continued positive engagement with schools, colleges and the local community for the benefit of all.
With strong leadership from our passionate and committed senior leadership team, and with the support of excellent teaching and support staff across all areas, we look forward to the continued evolution of the College; we also look forward to meeting committed, engaging and passionate people who want to join us to further enhance the life-chances and choices of our students – which is of course our main mission as educators.
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