Job Title: Lecturer - Health
Post requires candidate to be entitled for work: Yes
Contract Type: Fixed Term
Full time/Part Time: Full Time
Advert Closing Date: 17/05/2026
Job Overview
Highlands College require a lecturer in Health and Social care for a fixed period of 3 academic terms. Starting September 2026 to June 2027.
We have a strong safeguarding culture with robust professional standards.
Lecturers contribute to all aspects of curriculum development, course assessment and resource planning, with a requirement to cover for the absence of colleagues.
For an informal discussion, please contact Christine Gavey - christine.gavey@highlands.ac.uk
Job Purpose
Responsible for managing the learning process including classroom teaching, tutorials, associated outreach and open and distance learning programmes and student placements for a specific group.
Job Specific Outcomes
1. Identify learning needs of individuals and groups, prepare and deliver lectures, seminars and tutorials to enable students to meet assessments and examination requirements.
2. Assist in Curriculum development, the planning and evaluation of courses, review of course materials and lead specialist programmes as required.
3. Contribute to team/Department meetings including course monitoring and course assessment to ensure objectives are being met.
4. Set and mark student work for assessment and examination, identify previously acquired competencies, verify assessment procedures, maintain relevant records for report writing, references, records of achievement for internal and external verification/validation purposes.
5. Contribute to the development of external contacts with industry and professional bodies to enhance the relevance of the teaching situation.
6. Plan continuing professional development, participate in performance review and appraisal and appropriate in-service training and evaluate and disseminate advances in training and development in order to facilitate individual and organisational learning.
7. Assist in ensuring the quality of the curriculum provision to meet internal and external standards through management of course meetings and contributing to course planning and review.
8. Assist in ensuring the college environment meets health and safety and security requirements.
9. Recognise the personal welfare needs of students, and initiate appropriate referrals. Monitor and develop the standards of students’ behaviour in order to provide additional support where a student is not completing a study programme as planned.
10. Identify course requirements and use resources allocated in order to create environment(s) conducive to the learning of individuals and groups.
11. Any other duties required by the senior team for the successful achievement of the job purpose.
Jersey Public Service Careers
Across the Jersey Public Service, the scope of our work means our people enjoy a wide range of opportunities—working with recognised experts across teams, learning new skills, and developing their careers. We actively seek to recruit people from different backgrounds with diverse perspectives, creating a richer, more varied environment where you’re exposed to new ideas, new ways of thinking, and new opportunities to build an exciting and rewarding career.
To maintain the highest standards of public service, we have a rigorous screening process, to ensure candidates align with our values, skills, and professional requirements. This helps us create a trusted, capable workforce that can deliver excellence and safeguard our community.
For regulated activity roles (working with children and adults at risk of harm), an enhanced level of screening will be conducted to include enhanced DBS checks.
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