At a Glance
- Tasks: Deliver engaging finance and accounting education to diverse learners.
- Company: Award-winning City College Plymouth with a supportive culture.
- Benefits: 50 days holiday, career development, and free meals.
- Other info: Join a college that values potential over experience and supports your growth.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on students' financial futures in a dynamic environment.
- Qualifications: Strong knowledge in accounting and adaptability to different learning styles.
The predicted salary is between 37500 - 37500 £ per year.
Full Time | Permanent | £37,500 Per Annum
Overview
Winner of the Best Place to Work at the Tech South West Awards 2025, City College Plymouth offers a culture the College is proud of. Our core values of Respect, Ownership and Integrity help create an environment that supports a passion for teaching and learning. These values guide our work as we enrich our community through knowledge, experience and skills so every student can achieve their best. As one of the country’s largest providers of quality education and training, City College Plymouth is entering a period of transition to enable us to propel education into the future. We take pride in offering a learning environment and organisational culture that contribute positively to the health, wellbeing and sustainability of our community and enable all our students and staff to achieve their full potential.
The Role
We are seeking a dedicated, versatile, and engaging Accounting Lecturer/Tutor to deliver high-quality education across Levels 2, 3 and 4. This role is unique in its demographic reach, requiring the ability to seamlessly adapt teaching styles for both 16–18 school leavers and mature adult students upskilling or changing careers. The ideal candidate will possess strong vocational knowledge and a passion for making financial concepts, standard practices, and regulatory frameworks accessible and engaging. You will guide students from introductory bookkeeping up to advanced financial accounting and management techniques, ensuring high retention, achievement, and progression rates.
What Will You Bring To The Role
- Cognitive Agility - An accounting teacher doesn’t just teach one type of student or one level of complexity. On any given day, your focus, tone, and cognitive approach must reset depending on the timetable.
- Emotional Perception - Accounting has a reputation for inducing high levels of 'math anxiety.' 16–18 year olds and mature adults have different emotional baggage regarding education.
- Quantitative Reasoning - The ability to reason about numerical relations, interpret quantitative data, and solve problems using mathematical concepts.
- Persistent Effort - Remaining composed in the face of setbacks, embracing challenges, and trying alternative approaches to deliver success.
Benefits
- Holiday: 50 days inclusive of bank holidays and College Closure over Christmas.
- Career development opportunities.
- Generous contributions towards your pension.
- Free tea, coffee and lunch in our dedicated staff lounge.
How We Recruit
We aim to recruit based on potential, not experience. We are interested in seeing your behaviours in action and how they will help you become successful at City College Plymouth, giving everyone the opportunity to show their potential, regardless of background or experience. After completing our online application form, you will be asked to complete an online assessment within a few days of this vacancy closing. This assessment asks you no questions at all. Instead, it observes your behaviour and natural strengths in action, with a series of engaging, intuitive tasks. You will receive a report outlining your behaviours once you have completed the assessment, regardless of whether you progress to the next stage or not, providing you with some feedback.
The College welcomes applications from service leavers and the Armed Forces community, and supports those service leavers who are Reservists in any of the Armed Forces. The College reserves the right to close this advertisement early if sufficient applications have been received.
