Sessional Teaching Fellow

The School of Education, Languages and Linguistics (SELL) is seeking to recruit Bank Hourly Paid or Fixed-Term Sessional Teaching Fellows to contribute as a member of the teaching team to the delivery, administration and assessment of elements of programmes delivered within the School, at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

Depending on the applicant, this could involve teaching specialised areas of the curriculum related to your expertise, or more general cover for teaching across our courses when required.

The appointee may deliver teaching on a range of courses within the School. The topics offered would be subject to the skills, expertise and experience of the successful candidate. Preference would be given to candidates having expertise and experience in one or more of the following subject areas:

- Social Work
- Early Childhood Studies and Childhood and Youth Studies, especially educational psychology, and youth work and policy
- Initial Teacher Education
- Public Administration (to contribute to the MPA provision)
- TESOL
- Linguistics, including Media Discourse
- Modern Foreign Languages: Spanish and Translation, Japanese, Korean.

The number of hours worked is flexible, dependent on the School's needs and by negotiation. If you have experience of teaching and assessment within an HE setting, in a relevant subject area, and are keen to use those skills to enhance our current provision, we would be interested to receive an application from you.

Shortlisted candidates will be interviewed online and successful candidates will be appointed to the Bank of Sessional Teaching Fellows and offered hours as required., Discover the advantages of joining our university. We offer a range of attractive benefits and opportunities to enhance your work experience

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Competitive salary, including incremental progression within your scale.
- Generous pension scheme.
- Generous leave entitlement of 32-35 days a year, plus bank holidays, and an additional Christmas closure.
- Family-friendly policies supporting flexible working.
- Staff discounts and loyalty schemes.
- Staff car parking and discounted public travel.
- Excellent training and development opportunities.
- Staff wellbeing programmes.
- Long service milestones, and recognition awards which may be awarded to staff for exceptional performance.
- Recreation facilities, including discounted gym membership, food on campus schemes, use of the Library and staff social activities.
- Discounted learning.
- Start-up business mentoring from expert entrepreneurs via our Entrepreneurs in Residence programme.
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Prior to submitting your application, kindly ensure that you can either demonstrate or acquire the necessary right to work in the UK. If you currently do not possess the right to work in the UK, please be aware that our offer of employment is conditional upon you obtaining it.

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