Teacher of Psychology
Woking College
Surrey
- Expired
- Salary:
- £21,684 to £37,008 per annum
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2015
- Apply by:
- 16 March 2015
Job overview
The College requires a Teacher of Psychology teach Psychology to AS and A2 level.
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 Social Sciences Department is a large, successful area of the College. Student recruitment numbers have grown rapidly over the last few years and the department has been pro-active in broadening the curriculum to meet the needs of students. The department hosts a range of extra-curricular activities which have included visits to museums and the theatre, and guest speakers from local universities to discuss their research with our students. Also visits to the University of Surrey Psychology Department, public lectures with high profile psychologists, and the “True Life” Forensic Psychology conference to support the Forensics Unit at A2. In addition, the department has an excellent e-learning programme. Our students are encouraged to use this in order to fully prepare for all taught lessons, consolidate classroom-based teaching and further stretch their understanding of psychology. Our students value the emphasis we place on e-learning and it continues to be an exciting area of development. In terms of teaching in the department, we are very much focused on the development of exam skills and improving psychological literacy. Our expectations are high and we offer individualised support to ensure that all of our students meet their potential. From bookable 1:1s to out-of-hours Twitter support and intensive psychology revision programme, our students are confident that they will receive the support that they need to really excel.
Salary: £21,684 to £37,008 per annum, on Sixth Form Colleges’ Association Teaching Scale plus £974 allowance per annum
Closing date: 9am on Monday 16 March 2015
Interviews: to be held in week commencing 23 March 2015
To Apply: Please download the Teacher of Psychology 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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