Job Application Form

Variable Hours Lecturer - Sports, £21.77 - £33.90

Employment Type

Zero hour

Application Start Date

02-06-2026

Application End Date

15-06-2026

Description

JOB DESCRIPTION 

Job Title

Variable Hour Lecturer - Sports

Contract

Variable Hours Lecturer

Job location

Elm Park Campus, Stanmore

Bannister Sports Stadium

Crystal Palace National Sports Centre

Department

Sports

Reports to

Director of Cross College Sports

Salary Scale

£21.77 - £33.90 per hour (exclusive of holiday pay)

 

Job Purpose: 

The main purpose of the role is to deliver high quality education and training to ensure the retention and achievement of our learners, and to teach, develop, and enhance programmes of study in subjects and courses qualifications, and experience.

 

Duties Specific to the Post:

  • To deliver high quality teaching, learning and assessment on a range of courses in an appropriate area of the curriculum in line with college standards and meet awarding body expectations.
  • To implement curriculum and course development and curriculum delivery within the area of work.
  • To deliver inspirational teaching and access to learning across a range of programmes
  • To provide assessment opportunities in line with the relevant awarding bodies and requirements.
  • To prepare and adapt teaching materials including assignments, reading lists, assessment papers and handbooks to enable all learners to progress and succeed at the appropriate level.
  • Prepare and maintain course related paperwork such as project briefs, schemes of work, lesson plans and resource materials for teaching programmes.
  • To undertake the necessary administrative tasks required for the effective operation of the programmes in this area to carry out moderation, assessment and verification.
  •  Prepare assessment plans and schedules and ensure students are aware of your expectations.

 Course Management and Administration:

  • To participate in student inductions and contribute to the design of induction programmes.
  • Ensure your resources within your subjects are kept up-to-date and accessible to students and other staff in liaison with the curriculum managers and the College’s Learning Centre.
  • Produce reports to provide information to parents/employers.
  • Adhere to the departments quality assurance processes including internal verification of project briefs and the assessment of student work taken part in standardisation of grading decision meetings.
  • Ensure all records are kept up to date, including the completion of registers, and other required documentation in a timely manner.
  • Carry out students’ questionnaires and elicit feedback on the quality of teaching and learning.
  • Contribute to course reviews including reviews of your subject area and the setting, implementation and monitoring of action plans.
  • Keep knowledge and skills up to date through self-study and undertake staff development and secondments relevant to professional needs.
  • Develop industrial links with other professionals within the industry to maintain personal research or professional practice in own specialist area for personal progressional development.

 General:

  • Participate in open evenings and recruitment activities to ensure that potential applicants and students receive accurate information and guidance. 
  • Attend promotional events to publicise college and faculty activities and contribute to the development, promotion and delivery of the team’s marketing and recruitment strategies.
  • Where appropriate ensure that basic skills initial and diagnostic assessments, are undertaken and that student receive effective learning support.
  •  Attend team meetings, College and external events as required.
  • To participate in curriculum development and new course initiatives within the faculty and wider college.
  • Contribute to the overall quality improvement plans and key performance indicators.
  • Ensure all data is handled in line with General Data Protection Regulations.
  • Promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and adhere and fully implement the colleges policies and procedures relating to EDI.
  • Take appropriate responsibility to provide a secure, safe and friendly learning environment including implementation of the College’s Health and Safety Policy.
  • Committed to Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, ensuring that this commitment is demonstrated in all aspects of the role as appropriate. 

Further education is an ever-changing service, and all staff are expected to participate constructively in college activities and to adopt a flexible approach to their work. This job description will be reviewed annually during the appraisal process and will be varied in the light of the business needs of the college.

 

The postholder can be required to carry out any other duties consistent with the grade of the post, at any site on which the College may operate. Teaching is scheduled during the day, as well as on Tuesday and Thursday evenings, and Saturdays.             

 

Closing Date: Monday, 15th June 2026

Interview Date: Monday, 22nd June 2026

Personal Information

Professional Information

Right to Work

References

Please supply the name and contact details of two professional referees. One referee must be your current or most recent employer. If your current/most recent employment does/did not involve work with children, then your second referee should be from your employer with whom you most recently worked with children.

The college intends to take up references on all shortlisted candidates before interview.

Education

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Professional Qualification

Please provide details of any vocational qualifications or Trainings that you have completed which you consider to be relevant to the role for which you have applied

Employment History

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Gaps in Your Employment HIstory

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Disclosure of Criminal Conviction

All posts involving direct contact with vulnerable children are exempts from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

The amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975 (2013) provide that certain spent convictions and cautions are "protected". These are not subject to disclosure to employers and cannot be taken into account. Guidance and criteria on the filtering of these cautions and convictions can be found on the Disclosure and Barring Service website. This means that they do not need to be disclosed to employers and, if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account.

Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed, can be found on the Ministry of Justice website.

Overseas Criminal Records Check

If you have lived abroad for 3 months or more (from the age of 16), you will be required to complete the application process for obtaining overseas police check as condition for employment.

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