Senior Lecturer Practitioner (Initial Teacher Training)

About ARU:

ARU is a global university transforming lives through innovative, inclusive and entrepreneurial education and research. ARU holds a Gold award for the quality of its education, awarded through the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF). ARU’s research institutes and four faculties bridge scientific, technical and creative fields. We deliver impactful research which tackles pressing issues and makes a real difference to our communities. Our academic excellence has been recognised by the UK’s Higher Education funding bodies, with 16 of our research areas assessed as world leading. We are the largest provider of Nursing, Midwifery, Health and Social Care students in the East of England, and we are also among the UK’s leading universities for degree apprenticeship provision, working with hundreds of employers across the UK.

About the Role:

The Faculty of Arts, Humanities, Education and Social Sciences offers a range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses. In Education these include the PGCert, MA Education, MBA, PGCE, as well as doctoral level studies. Our undergraduate provision includes Working with Children, Families and Communities, Early Childhood Studies, Montessori and Primary Education Studies. Following our successful accreditation from the Department of Education, we will be delivering courses that award Qualified Teacher Status from September 2024.

We’re seeking to recruit an experienced school teacher to join us part time as a Senior Lecturer Practitioner. Maintaining currency in practice alongside an academic role, you will bridge the gap between theory and practice for the next generation of teachers in the East of England. You will have strong primary curriculum subject knowledge and Phonics, SEND or EAL as a specialism. In this role you will teach on the new BEd Primary Education with QTS course across our Cambridge and Peterborough campuses, upskill as a mentor under the new requirements for ITT and support school-based training for trainees. We are looking for you join us for 4 days a week (Mon/Tues/Wed/Thurs) from January 2025.

With a degree or relevant professional qualification and extensive post qualification CPD and/or a higher degree, you’ll have appropriate school-based experience including working with trainees and ECTs.

Informal enquiries can be made to Rachel Minett, Lead for ITT in Cambridge Rachel.minett@aru.ac.uk

We have an agile working culture and offer an extensive range of benefits including generous holiday entitlement, occupational pension schemes, training and development opportunities, travel to work scheme and a competitive relocation package. Visit our benefits page for full details.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting welfare of our staff and students and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Applicants should be aware that ARU will carry out online searches as part of the due diligence on short listed candidates.

We value diversity at ARU and welcome applications from all sections of the community.

We have a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK.

This role does not qualify for visa sponsorship under the point-based system and is therefore only open to applicants with the right to work in the UK.

Committed to being inclusive and open to discuss flexible working.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy once we have received sufficient applications.

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