Teacher - Early Years (Maternity Cover)

Gateshead College; Gateshead; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Gateshead College seeks an inspiring Teacher for the Early Years Department to cover maternity leave. This role involves delivering early years programmes, developing lesson plans, and ensuring quality education while motivating students. Ideal candidates will have a degree in education or childcare and relevant experience.

Benefits

47 days holiday for teaching staff, increasing to 30 days after 5 years

Career average pension scheme

Flexible working options for support staff

Discount rewards scheme for employees

Free gym facilities at Baltic Campus

Travel support and subsidized transport

Dedicated mental health support

24/7 confidential support helpline

Company sick pay

Qualifications

• Experience in early years education and childcare.
• Knowledge of quality processes for awarding bodies.
• Ability to motivate and guide students.

Responsibilities

• Deliver early years programmes including preparation and assessment.
• Induct, motivate, and coach students through their learning journey.
• Prepare high-quality lesson documentation and teaching resources.

Skills

Planning skills

Organisational skills

Communication skills

ICT skills

Education

Degree level qualification in education or childcare

Internal quality assurance qualification or willingness to work towards

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Teacher - Early Years (Maternity Cover), Gateshead

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Gateshead College

Location:

Gateshead, United Kingdom

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Posted:

22.06.2025

Expiry Date:

06.08.2025

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Job Description:

Our Early Years Department is looking for an inspiring, dedicated, flexible and enthusiastic teacher to deliver on a range of early years programmes. This exciting opportunity is on a fixed term basis for maternity cover. This role involves preparation, delivery and assessment on our early years study programmes.

We’re on the lookout for an individual with excellent planning and organisational skills, who will prepare high quality lesson documentation and teaching resources and who is enthusiastic about sharing good practice. You would be required to work as part of the course team and support the curriculum leader to maintain learner punctuality, attendance, retention, achievement, and success. You should have experience and knowledge of quality processes and procedures including internal moderation for the relevant awarding bodies.

You’ll be responsible for inducting, motivating, coaching and guiding your group of students through their learning journey; developing inspiring lesson plans, ensuring they’re on track, marking and assessing their work and holding regular reviews to help them progress.

We’d also like you to be as passionate as we are about delivering top quality training and helping people to build their confidence and skills/gets at buzz out of delivering fantastic lessons that help students thrive and achieve their very best.

You should have excellent communication and ICT skills and be able to deliver a curriculum that is digital focused. You will be working independently as well as part of a team and must be able to work under pressure and to tight deadlines.

The successful applicant will have a related degree level/vocational qualification in the curriculum area and should have relevant vocational experience in the field of education and childcare. The role requires you to have a relevant internal quality assurance qualification or work towards achieving this.

About Gateshead College

If you’re looking for an opportunity to help shape lives in an organisation where you’ll feel valued, we’d love to hear from you. At Gateshead College we deliver an industry inspired education that combines high quality learning with real world skills, something we call education with employment edge. We want to recruit people who share our passion for helping people, whatever their age, background or starting point to develop the confidence, personal and professional skills they need to be successful in work and life. We’re looking for people who believe hard work wins, who are ambitious for themselves and those around them and who have the courage to give new things a go.

In return for everything you can bring, we can offer a values-driven organisation full of people who think you should enjoy your job. You’ll be listened to and have opportunities to make an impact, your work life balance will be respected and you’ll be encouraged to work collaboratively with colleagues and those in the wider community. Our inclusive culture means you can be yourself and our commitment to being a resilient and sustainable organisation means we always try to do business the right way. We invest in and support skills development. For teachers this includes access to our Teacher Academy where you’ll be assigned a coach to help develop your practice and attend an annual conference to share best practice. For support staff it includes regular career conversations and a summer conference.

Whatever your role, everyone at Gateshead College has the opportunity to help our learners succeed. It is this clear purpose and shared effort that makes us such a great place to work.

Other benefits include:

• Teaching staff: 47 days holiday or support staff: 25 days’ holiday, leading to 30 days after 5 years of employment. Scale 5+ 28 days’ holiday, leading to 30 days after 5 years of employment.
• A career average pension with Local Government Pension Scheme/Teachers Pension Scheme.
• Open to flexible working for support staff.
• A discount rewards scheme at a host of retailers exclusively for Gateshead College employees.
• A modern workspace with free gym facilities at our Baltic Campus, industry standard facilities in our workshops and classrooms.
• Travel support including subsidised on-site parking, discounted public transport scheme and a cycle to work scheme.
• Dedicated mental health support.
• 24/7 confidential support helpline and counselling support.
• Hair and beauty discounts at our salon, Botanica.
• Company sick pay.

Gateshead College take all reasonably practicable measures to reduce the risks presented to employees undertaking business-driving duties as part of their role to an acceptable level as required under the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999. If you are required to drive as part of your role, it is essential that you provide us with a copy of your Business insurance certificate, and a copy of your driving license and vehicle check.

The deadline for applications is Midnight on Sunday 22nd October, 2023 and the interviews will take place week commencing 30th October, 2023.