Job Title: Lecturer / Course Manager in Animal Management – Veterinary Nursing              

Status: 29.6 hours per week (4 days), Fixed Term until 11th October 2025

Closing Date: Midnight 30th April 2025

Assessment Centre Date: Wednesday 7th May 2025

Overview

Reaseheath College is one of the premier land-based Colleges located in South Cheshire with an enviable reputation for quality and partnerships with industry.  The College has a beautiful rural setting situated amongst 330 hectares of farms, parklands, lake, woodland and sports facilities. Serving around 7500 students, in delivering further and higher education courses, the College has grown significantly over recent years and has further ambitious plans for growth and development to serve the local and national communities.

Part of this ongoing development has included the development of a leading Veterinary Nursing Training centre serving practices from several surrounding counties. The college has invested significantly in staff and physical resource in the area and is proud to operate within a registered OSCE training centre on site amongst other facilities including a Medical clinical skills suite, Surgical Clinical skills suite, imaging room, diagnostic Lab and access to a significant range of live animal species in a full licenced onsite Zoological collection.

About the role

We are looking for an exceptional, well organised individual to support the highly skilled Veterinary Nursing team to ensure the highest levels of satisfaction and success within their training practices whilst remaining compliant with RCVS requirements.

Key responsibilities:

• Work closely with a wide range of staff to support both existing and new training practices to meet the needs of the developing curriculum and changing market.
• Assess, examine and support students and candidates using a variety of methods.
• Develop links and build relationships with industry and associated stakeholders in order to enhance the reputation of the College.
• Provide Course Management to one or more student groups.
• Delivers teaching sessions to a consistently good/outstanding standard.

The successful candidate will have:

• Minimum Level 4 qualification for Further Education role.
• Registered Veterinary Nurse with the RCVS.
• Level 2 Maths & English or equivalent.
• Recognised Teaching Qualification (or be willing to work towards one).
• A period of relevant and successful time within the industry.

We can offer you:

• 35 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Two-week festive/New Year shut down
• Generous pension scheme with an employer contribution of 28.68%
• Enhanced sick pay of up to 6 months full pay depending upon service
• On site gym membership available
• Pluxee reward scheme

As a College, we actively encourage applications from industry professionals without a teaching qualification, as well as those from qualified teachers. Reaseheath offers a full CPD programme with access to funded qualifications alongside hands on support whilst completing Further Education Training. Industry professionals joining the College in an academic role, will complete their Further Education Training whilst in post.

For more information, please refer to the additional job description.

Please note this role constitutes ‘regulated activity’ as defined by the Protection of Freedom Act 2012. The successful candidate will therefore be required to undertake an enhanced DBS check with barred list information prior to starting employment. You must also have the right to work in the UK and will be required to provide evidence to support this. In addition, online checks will be carried out during the recruitment process. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Reaseheath College is committed to achieving its public sector general equality duty, which is set out in the Equality Act 2010. The College has a clear mission and clear values, which incorporate equality, diversity and inclusion.

The College staff recruitment and selection process, CPD processes, policies and practice are designed to ensure that when employment decisions are made, they are based solely on the skills and qualities required for the position and comply with all relevant employment legislation and best practice standards.

Disability Support

The College is a Disability Confident Employer and will support any reasonable adjustments you require to perform your best during the recruitment process. You can contact the HR team at [email protected] should you require any adjustments during either your application or during the assessment centre.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy earlier than the advertised close date if we receive a sufficient number of applications.

We do not accept applications or speculative CVs through recruitment agencies.