Variable Hours Lecturer - Counselling
| Posting date: | 25 September 2025 |
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| Salary: | £29.14 to £33.21 per hour |
| Additional salary information: | Range of Benefits |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 25 October 2025 |
| Location: | Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, HP21 8PD |
| Company: | Buckinghamshire College Group |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | REQ1946_1758814553 |
Summary
As a Variable Hours Lecturer - Counselling you will be educating and engaging our students, preparing them for careers in a variety of counselling environments. The skills and knowledge that you teach the students have a real impact on the counselling sector as you will be teaching skills such as active listening, empathy, emotional intelligence, supportive relationships, problem solving and conflict resolution whilst adhering to professional standards and ethical practice. You will be part of a passionate and innovative team where you be supported to achieve your goals in a collaborative, respectful and inclusive environment.
The successful candidate will be required to:
- Plan and deliver high quality and engaging counselling lessons, using up to date vocational knowledge and expertise to ensure the curriculum delivered develops students counselling skills, knowledge and behaviours.
- Have the ability to plan and prepare innovative schemes of work, lesson plans and assessment schedules which motivate students to achieve.
- Plan and deliver highly effective learning programmes for diverse groups or individuals in a safe and inclusive environment, whilst also ensuring students are stretched and challenged to reach their full potential.
- Have extensive Counselling experience and be able to share vocational knowledge to students.
- Monitor and record student progress
- Adhere to professional standards and requirements set by CPCAB
- Adhere to Bucks College Group policies and procedures
We will encourage you to develop new skills and expand your opportunities within the college. We are also flexible and accommodating, allowing you to be as productive as possible.
While working at Buckinghamshire College Group you can also take advantage of a host of employee benefits including
- Pension scheme - TPS (23% employers' contribution)
- 35 days holiday entitlement plus Bank Holidays & Additional annual leave purchase scheme
- A wide range of learning - access to free training & continuous professional development
- A bespoke package of intensive induction and probation support
- Flexible working policy and a commitment to employee wellbeing
- Discounts in the Aylesbury Day Nursery & Aylesbury Hair & Beauty (HAB) Salon
- 24hrs/7days a week access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
- Cycle to work and local business employee corporate discount schemes
Buckinghamshire College Group is a Further Education college with three campuses located in Aylesbury, Amersham and Wycombe. We are proud to be a skills-based college supporting over 5,000 learners each year to achieve their study and career goals and play a pivotal role in the Buckinghamshire community working with a wide range of employers for example, Pinewood Studios, NHS Trusts and Flannery Plant Hire to name but a few.
As a member of our team you will have an unwavering passion for learning and for supporting students and staff to achieve more than they ever thought possible - while being innovative and comfortable with experimentation of new ideas and approaches including use of digital tools to enhance student engagement - we call this the Bucks College Factor!
If you have the Bucks College Factor, this sounds like a role for you and Buckinghamshire College Group sounds like a place you'd like to be part of, then we'd love to hear from you.
Taking Teaching Further
The College actively engages with the Education & Training Foundation's Taking Teaching Further scheme to recruit industry professionals to teach within Further Education.
As industry professionals offer our students industry experience and insight we support our unqualified teachers to learn 'on the job'. You will be given full support throughout your development to fully qualified teacher status. Whilst in employment you would be enrolled onto the Level 3 Award in Education and Training. After completion you can choose to move be onto our Level 5 Diploma in Education and Training qualification. This is a great way for experienced professionals to achieve a recognised teaching qualification whilst in employment.
Commitment to Safeguarding
BCG is committed to equal opportunities for all, safeguarding and promoting the welfare of students and staff alike; all posts are subject to enhanced DBS checks.
For more information about the role, please refer to the Job Description and Terms and Conditions located in the job details above.
Only completed applications will be considered for this role.
For more information on the role please contact HR directly.
Closing date for applications is the 23/10/2025, with interviews taking place on 03/11/2025.
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