Early Years Lecturer in Canterbury

About The Role

Your Skills, Their Success, Supporting the Community's Future - Join us as a Lecturer. As a Lecturer of Early Years at EKC Canterbury College, you will teach, train and assess students across a range of learning environments, delivering a high quality and engaging learning experience. You will play a key role in shaping the next generation of Early Years practitioners, combining industry knowledge with inspiring teaching to help learners succeed.

Your role will include:

• Delivering high quality teaching, training and assessment across Early Years programmes
• Supporting learners to achieve their maximum potential through guidance, mentoring and pastoral support
• Leading on designated study programmes and or courses as appropriate
• Designing, delivering and evaluating programmes to ensure continuous improvement and strong outcomes
• Creating engaging lessons that link theory to practical Early Years settings
• Working collaboratively with colleagues and external partners to enhance the learner experience

This is an opportunity to make a real difference, supporting learners to develop the skills, confidence and professionalism needed for a successful career in Early Years.

Hours per week: 26 (Mon, Tues and Fri, includes one evening per week)

Salary per year: £25,374 up to £27,798

Contract start: 1st May 2026

We pride ourselves in the support we can give those who are new to teaching, with ongoing training and coaching through our Teacher Academy which includes digital skills support. So, if you do not have any teaching experience or teacher qualifications but have a passion for sharing your knowledge and would like to be considered for this teaching role please apply. Alongside our priority of excellent student experience, we also focus on our employees. Check out our benefits on our website.

About You

You will be highly organised, creative and be able to plan and teach engaging and innovative lessons with demonstrated interpersonal skills. Assessing and tracking student progress, to further plan intervention this will be a vital part of the role and ensuring all students develop the skills they need to succeed.

What are we looking for?

• A commitment to ensuring all students develop academic and professional skills needed to succeed.
• High organisation and creative skills, with the ability to plan and deliver engaging lessons.
• Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to motivate and support learners.
• Able to build effective relationships with key stakeholders.
• Experienced in assessing, monitoring, and tracking student progress to inform planning and targeted interventions.

You will need to have recent teaching experience or hold a recognised teaching qualification. Knowledge and experience of teaching on the T Level Early Years qualification (Occupational Specialism Early Years Educator) is essential as the allocated teaching will be on this qualification. In addition you should hold a relevant assessors qualification as this will support the requirement the applicants ability to also conduct formal observation assessments as part of the qualification.

Why Apply

• No need to update your CV – simply complete our short online application form
• Save your progress and return at any time
• All applicants will be contacted after the closing date

Informal Enquiries

For an informal discussion or any queries, please email jobs@ekcgroup.ac.uk

Please note that there are two salary scale points for our Lecturer positions. All candidates will start at the introductory salary scale point unless certain criteria are met. Lecturers will normally move up to the highest salary scale once one full academic year of teaching for our group is complete. (Lecturers must be in post by 1st September in any given year to qualify and this is subject to approval). Therefore, internal applicants in the same role may qualify for the higher salary scale, although should seek clarification.

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 need 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.