Business Unit: Ashford College Location: Ashford, Kent Salary Details: £140 per day (including planning and admin) Proposed Interview Date: 12/01/2026 Advertising End Date: 04/01/2026
About The Role
Inspire Creativity. Shape Futures
Are you ready to make a real impact in your local creative community?
EKC Ashford College, part of the East Kent Colleges Group, is seeking three talented Supply Lecturers with experience in Music, Media or Art to join our approved staffing pool.
If you’re looking for flexible, rewarding work throughout the week, and the chance to inspire the next generation of creative professionals, we'd love to hear from you.
As part of a group of six colleges across East Kent (Ashford, Broadstairs, Canterbury, Dover, Folkestone, Sheppey), plus our apprenticeship and adult training units, you’ll have opportunities to be considered for work across a range of learning environments. Many of our Supply Lecturers go on to secure further roles within the Group.
As a Supply Lecturer, you will:
- Teach, train and assess learners in Music, Media or Art, sharing your specialist skills
- Create engaging, high-quality learning experiences
- Support and motivate students to achieve their full potential
- Contribute to a positive, creative and inclusive learning environment
If you’re passionate about your subject and keen to help students grow, this could be the perfect next step in your educational career.
Please note that our Supply Lecturers are paid £18.72 per hour worked and if planning and admin is required, a further half an hour may be claimed per hour of teaching. £140 per day is therefore for rate for 5 hours teaching with 2.5 hours of planning and admin. Any addition to the approved staffing list is not a guarantee of employment or hours of work. Once you have been interviewed and all pre-employment checks are complete, you will then be placed within the supply pool of staff available for temporary work. If we have an opportunity that meets your skill set, we will contact you to discuss the opportunity.About You
You will be highly organised, creative, and confident in planning and delivering engaging, innovative lessons. Strong interpersonal skills are essential, as you’ll be assessing and tracking student progress to plan effective interventions and ensure every learner develops the skills they need to succeed.
You’ll be able to teach a range of study programmes and courses from Level 1 to Level 3, motivating learners to achieve and reach their full potential.
You will have experience teaching in one or more of the following areas:
We will consider all applications against the job specification within the job description. If you don’t meet all the criteria, we still encourage you to apply.
There’s no need to update your CV - complete our short application form. You can save your progress at any time, and we will review all applications and contact every candidate after the closing date.
If you’d like an informal chat about the role or have any questions, please email us at jobs@ekcgroup.ac.uk
About Us
Outstanding Ofsted Provider
East Kent Colleges Group is an Ofsted Outstanding rated provider. It is proud to be the first General Further Education college organisation in the country to have received the Outstanding grade against each of the strands under the new Ofsted inspection framework. An inclusive provider, our colleagues place our students and the communities we serve at the heart of everything they do across EKC Group and this is illustrated in our ‘Strong’ skills grading by Ofsted.
Commitment to Safeguarding
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and we ensure that all staff are aware of their responsibilities for upholding these principles.
As a designated establishment, we are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore have an obligation to carry out checks to ensure that staff are suitable to work with children and vulnerable adults. These checks include conviction/caution self-declaration, Enhanced DBS check and obtaining sufficient referencing.
It is a criminal offence to apply for a post which involves engaging in regulated activity relevant to children if you are barred from doing so.
If you are successful in being shortlisted to interview, your suitability to work with children and vulnerable adults will be explored as part of the interview process.
Commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
East Kent Colleges Group is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all members of our communities. We are particularly keen to increase the diversity of our staff body and encourage applications from candidates where there is underrepresentation in our workforce.
We are proud to hold the Positive About Disability Award and are a Disability Confident Employer. This confirms our commitment to interviewing all applicants who declare that they have a disability and who meet the essential criteria outlined in the person specification. With any successful candidate, we will explore any reasonable adjustments to a role due to a health needs or disability.
Similarly, we have a commitment to Care Leavers (Care Covenant Pledge) and to current or previous Armed Forces personnel (Armed Forces Covenant Pledge) with a commitment to interview applicants who meet the positions essential criteria and who have declared this on their application.
We welcome applications from anyone wishing to work flexibly and those considering a return to work from a career break.
We do not engage with agencies for permanent staff and have an in-house recruitment team.
