Main Grade Lecturer - Public Services
Application Deadline: 1 June 2026
Department: Colindale Central Costs
Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time
Location: Colindale Campus
Compensation: £35,849 - £47,299 / year
Description
Do you have a background in the uniformed services and a passion for preparing the next generation to follow in your footsteps? Are you looking for a role where your real world experience makes a real difference every day? If so, we think you will feel right at home here.
As our new Public Services Lecturer, you will deliver high quality, industry relevant teaching that prepares learners for careers in the police, fire service, armed forces, ambulance service and beyond. Based at our Colindale campus, you will develop learners' discipline, confidence, teamwork and resilience, giving them the professional behaviours and qualifications they need to succeed.
This is not a role where you simply deliver a fixed programme. You will be actively involved in shaping a curriculum that reflects the realities of uniformed service life, contributing your professional expertise and connecting learners to authentic experiences, including regular visits to the RAF Museum at Hendon, employer partnerships and progression pathways into employment, apprenticeships and higher education.
Key Responsibilities
- Inspiring teaching: Deliver high quality, inclusive sessions that develop the knowledge, skills and professional behaviours learners need for a career in the uniformed services.
- Learner success: Track progress, support achievement and help learners move confidently into employment, apprenticeships, higher education or public service careers.
- Authentic experiences: Connect learners to the realities of public service life through visits, employer partnerships, competitions and enrichment activities, including links to the RAF Museum at Hendon.
- Curriculum shaping: Contribute your sector expertise to curriculum development, resource creation and quality improvement.
- Assessment and compliance: Manage assessment and internal quality assurance processes to awarding body standards, including accurate tracking of learner evidence and preparation for external verification.
- Employability and progression: Embed English, Maths and wider professional skills development to support learners in completing their course and taking their next step.
- Pastoral support: Act as a tutor and mentor, helping learners navigate challenges and supporting their attendance, wellbeing and overall success.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
- Essential: A Level 3 qualification or above in a relevant Public Services discipline (e.g. Uniformed Protective Services, Policing, Military, Emergency Services, Criminology or similar)
- A teaching qualification (e.g. PGCE/CertEd/DET) or genuine commitment to achieving one within an agreed timeframe
- Experience of teaching, training or supporting learners in an FE, sixth form, training provider or similar educational setting
- Experience working with 16-19 learners and/or adults, including behaviour management and pastoral support
- Experience planning and delivering structured learning sessions aligned to qualification specifications
- Understanding of the Public Services sector, including roles, values, behaviours and progression routes
- Knowledge of inclusive teaching strategies and differentiation to support mixed ability groups
- Understanding of safeguarding, Prevent, equality, diversity and British Values in an FE context
- English and Maths at Level 2 or above (or equivalent)
- Commitment to equality, diversity, inclusion and safeguarding
- Even better if you have: A Level 4/5 or higher qualification in Public Services or a closely related subject
- Recent experience teaching Public Services qualifications at Level 1-3 (e.g. BTEC, NCFE or similar)
- Occupational experience within the Uniformed Protective Services (e.g. Armed Forces, Police, Fire, Ambulance, Security or Prison Service)
- An assessor or IQA qualification, or willingness to work towards one
- Experience contributing to enrichment, employer engagement or careers and employability activity
- Experience supporting learners with additional needs, SEND or barriers to learning
Benefits
We offer employees a generous holiday allowance of 55 days annual leave for academic staff plus bank holidays, pro rata for part time employees. A range of optional benefits are available, including taking teaching further, early career support packages, targeted retention payments for FE teachers, annual season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, employee support helpline, eye test reimbursement, flu vaccination vouchers, gym facilities, hair salon services and beauty treatments, and high street discounts for staff.
For more details on benefits, please refer to the College's Employee Pledge and the linked resources.
