Teacher of Social Sciences (Permanent, Temporary) in Portsmouth

Location: Sixth Form Campus

Salary: £30,248.30 - £44,298.68 Full Time Equivalent per annum

Hours of work: 35 hours per week (inclusive of teaching and prep time), 52 weeks per year, Full-Time, Permanent

Closing date: 15/05/2026

About us: At City of Portsmouth College, we aspire to be the employer of choice in the Portsmouth area, with a progressive, supportive, and rewarding workplace culture and one that offers competitive benefits for its staff. By joining us, you will personally be part of the change we are driving and will play a pivotal role in supporting the growth and development of our brilliant students, turning them into future leaders and innovators.

What we offer:

• Annual Leave: 42 days total and closure for winter shutdown period in line with Hampshire County Council school holidays & statutory bank holidays
• Pension: Generous Teachers' pension with employer contributions of 26.68%
• Learning & Development: Programmes by The Community Adult Education Department
• Staff Development: Access to the College staff development programmes and CPD
• Onsite Discounts: City of Portsmouth College Hair Salon & 50% off at the City of Portsmouth College Sports Centre
• Online Discounts: Unidays, Student Beans, and Totum with a City of Portsmouth College email address
• Parking: Free car parking across all campus sites (apart from Arundel)
• Blue Light Card: providing several discounts for clothing, electrical goods, food and days out, even concert tickets!

About the role: We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and innovative teacher to contribute to the teaching of Social Science in the Social Sciences Department. As a teacher you need to plan and deliver learning across any programmes you deliver on to a good standard. You need to support, engage and stretch your learners in such ways as to enable them to meet or exceed their target grades. You must set, assess and give feedback on a suitable quantity and quality of student work in a timely fashion, to help learners make good or better progress. This should include preparation work for flipped learning activities. You must help your learners meet awarding body requirements for qualifications. You must do all you can to meet or exceed College success rate targets. You need to aspire to achieving outstanding results in the subjects you are delivering.

Key Responsibilities:

• Preparing schemes of work, resources and learning that will engage and stretch your students, including the development of e-learning resources
• The quality of the student experience in your lessons
• The volume, timeliness and quality of student assessment and feedback to enable progress and success
• Support and interventions to ensure good or outstanding student progress
• Along with your students themselves, meeting minimum target grades
• The achievement of outcomes and retention which meet or exceed targets set
• Accurate and timely register completion
• Taking a pro-active approach towards your own professional development
• Liaison with parents/carers and other staff to ensure student progress

To be successful in this role, below is what we would need from you:

• Post-graduate Teaching Qualification (or willing to undertake studies towards a Teaching Qualification, full support from the College will be given for this)
• Experience planning, delivering, and assessing Social Science programmes is desirable
• Evidence of commitment to ongoing professional updating and development, both in the Social Science sector and teaching profession
• A professional approach with a commitment to excellence and quality
• An excellent communicator, supportive and co-operative team member
• Commitment to setting high standards, expectations, and aspirations for both self and learners

Diversity and Inclusion: Equality, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion are central to the work of City of Portsmouth College. This underpins the vision of the College to transform lives through providing exceptional education and training. The College's commitment to Equality, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion is reflected in the continued successful promotion of these strands through the curriculum, enrichment activities, and the range of direct and indirect student support services.

Pre-Employment Checks: City of Portsmouth College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people in our College. All successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check and two references. We reserve the right to close the job advert when we have had successful applications, and it may not run for the full duration of the advert. We do not accept CVs from agencies for these roles.