Lecturer - Computing
City College Plymouth, Kings Road, Plymouth, Pl1 5QG17 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
3 September 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
17 August 2026
Job details
Job role
- Teacher or lecturer
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Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subject
- Computing
Working pattern
- Full time: 37 Hours Per Week
Contract type
- Permanent
Full time equivalent salary
- Full Time | Permanent | £38,625 Per Annum
What skills and experience we're looking for
Full Time | Permanent | £38,625 Per Annum
Who we are
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
As a Computing Lecturer, you will deliver dynamic, high-quality teaching across the full academic spectrum, ranging from foundational Level 1 vocational programmes through to a Level 6 BSc (Hons) in Cybersecurity. Operating within a Further Education setting, you will plan and lead engaging lectures, practical lab sessions, and degree-level modules covering core areas such as ethical hacking, network defense, software development, and digital forensics. In addition to designing robust curricula aligned with awarding body and university partner specifications, you will act as a personal tutor providing academic guidance, pastoral support, and clear pathways into tech careers or postgraduate study. While the role includes assessing computing apprenticeships across Levels 1 to 6, your primary emphasis is on inspiring learners in the classroom, maintaining rigorous academic standards, contributing to internal quality assurance (IQA), and ensuring full compliance with Ofsted and education quality frameworks.
What Will You Bring to the Role
- Handling: will switch seamlessly between leading a Level 1 digital skills workshop, facilitating a Level 6 cybersecurity tutorial, and delivering targeted stretch and challenge sessions for advanced coders. You will handle these contrasting academic levels and diverse student cohorts back-to-back while maintaining structure, high energy, and clear focus.
- Perceptiveness: You will quickly identify subtle signs of frustration or disengagement in students during complex practical lab sessions or technical troubleshooting. By recognising individual emotional states and learning anxieties, you will adapt your pastoral approach to offer timely encouragement, helping both young learners and adult apprentices build technical confidence.
- Decision-making: During high-pressure assessment windows or time-sensitive End-Point Assessment (EPA) deadlines, you will make prompt, clear judgments on student readiness and grading. You will remain composed when managing unexpected timetable changes or technical interruptions, keeping the focus entirely on learning outcomes.
- Problem-solving: When students struggle with abstract networking protocols, complex algorithms, or advanced ethical hacking concepts, you will identify underlying patterns in their work and craft innovative, practical exercises to help them overcome these barriers and navigate complex technical problems.
What the college offers its staff
Benefits
City College Plymouth will offer you;
- 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 theArmed 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.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
Applying for the job
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View advert on college website (opens in new tab)About City College Plymouth
- Organisation type
- FE College, ages 16 to 99
- Education phase
- Sixth form or FE college
- Size
- No information available
- Age range
- 16 to 99
- Ofsted report
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- Email address
- recruitment@cityplym.ac.uk
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