Teacher of Economics
Woking College
Woking, Surrey
- New
- Salary:
- £32,895 to £48,355 pa, depending on experience (including fringe allowance) Pending nationally agreed pay increase
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- Tue 26 August 2025
- Apply by:
- 11 December 2024
Job overview
Rated "Outstanding" in every area, by Ofsted, Woking College are proud to provide excellence in sixth form education.
"Staff feel proud to work at the College. They are exceptionally positive about the culture leaders have created. They describe leaders as visible, approachable and highly focussed on staff wellbeing. Leaders celebrate achievement frequently in staff forums which helps staff to feel recognised, highly valued and a member of the Woking College family."
The Role
Inspiring and enthusiastic member of staff required with experience in teaching A Level Economics. We are looking for a full-time member of staff with dynamism and passion for their subject. With a friendly, supportive team, and exceptional College facilities, this is an exciting time to join our growing College.
Applications from ECTs and Teachers in Schools and Sixth Form College sectors are welcome. A full mentoring programme is arranged to introduce all new staff to sixth form college systems and procedures and to support and encourage professional development. We are looking for an exceptional candidate to join the team, and inspire our students. We expect high performance from all our staff and candidates should demonstrate their ability and suitability to both the role and the culture of the College.
The Department
The A Level Business and Economics Department is one of the largest departments in the College. Following a significant increase in student applications the Department was split into two distinctive areas of A Level Business & Economics, and separately, Vocational Business, enabling a greater degree of specialised teaching.
A Level results are excellent with a 98% pass rate in both Business and Economics with the majority of students progressing to their first-choice universities or degree apprenticeships with top employers like Bloomberg, Amazon and British Airways. Former students return to College to offer career talks and peer support. The Department offers a range of extracurricular activities and business focused trips to Brussels, Disneyland Paris and Thorpe Park which encourage students to extend their studies beyond the classroom.
Students are set challenging targets and have enjoyed success in external competitions such as the Bank of England Target 2.0, The Stock Market Challenge and Surrey County Council’s Marketing Challenge. In addition, students have the opportunity to take part in the College’s E.P.Q and Excellence Programme.
As part of the Woking Way programme, the College offers the opportunity for wider learning through the short courses programme and lunchtime lectures. These programmes provide an opportunity for students to expand their learning above and beyond the academic timetable, which in turn help with both their own personal development, as well as with UCAS applications. The Department works collaboratively and shares outstanding resources, activities and pedagogical approaches both within the department and outside.
College website:
We recommend applicants visit the College's website: Woking College | Surrey | Welcome to Woking College to find out more about our friendly community and why we are Outstanding.
Application Information:
Start Date: Tuesday 26 August 2025
Salary: £32,895 to £48,355 pa, depending on experience (including fringe allowance). Pending nationally agreed pay increase
To Apply: Please download the Application Pack and click the Apply Now button to access the Application Form, or visit the Staff Vacancy page on the College website: Woking College | Surrey | Staff Vacancies
CVs will not be accepted on their own. Applicants must have the Right to Work in the UK.
Please ensure education and employment history is completed fully, gaps in employment must be accounted for under the section entitled “Periods when not working”. We would like to see your passion for the role and the College in your supporting statement, please use this opportunity to include personal skills, experience relevant to the post, and reasons why you feel you would be successful if this post.
We actively encourage interested applicants to visit the College to see how you could be part of our friendly College community. If you would like to do so, please contact Kirsty Crook via recruitment@woking.ac.uk
Closing date: 9am, Wednesday 9 December 2024
Interviews: to be held on Monday 16 December 2024
For further information, to have an initial discussion, or to return a completed Application Form, please contact: Kirsty Crook, Personnel Officer: recruitment@woking.ac.uk
Important information:
The College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and successful applicants will be subject to Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks. The College is committed to equal opportunities.
The College encourages all candidates to be familiar with Section 1 of the DfE paper on “Keeping Children Safe in Education” September 2024 and the College's Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy. These documents can be found on the College's Staff Vacancies page, and Policies page.
In line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) the College asks candidates to consider Woking College's Privacy Notice for Job Applicants, which can be found on the Staff Vacancies page of the College’s website.
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About Woking College
Woking College is an oversubscribed and highly successful college of over 1700 students drawing students from more than 60 different schools. Our very successful focus will always be to create the very best environment for high quality of teaching and learning. We have a very broad range of enrichment activities, in order to greatly enhance the cultural capital and future prospects of our students. We place a very strong emphasis on maintaining our wonderful community, we have a more diverse College population than might be thought of as typical for Surrey and we are determined to maintain our inclusive ethos. We are fully committed to innovation whilst maintaining a humane and caring approach for all members of the College community which has resulted in the doubling of the student population in recent years. These approaches have been key to securing Grade 1 ‘Outstanding’ in all seven categories in our October 2022 Ofsted inspection.
Woking College is enjoying record results, very positive value-added and an abundance of applications and quite rightly has a teaching and learning culture which is the envy of other institutions, indeed in recent staff surveys over 95% of College staff said they were proud to work at Woking College!
We believe that our physical environment should also inspire our staff and students. All have benefitted hugely from an impressive transformation of the College’s estate over recent years, with the completion of a new Sports Centre in 2014, a new Art building in 2015 and a modern and larger Science Building in 2016. A full size 3G pitch was completed in 2020. A £3m teaching block opened in early 2023, and a further £3m project working collaboratively with the adjacent community centre opened in September 2023 enhancing our Performing Arts facilities even further.
We recognise the advantages of collaboration and have worked hard over the years to build and maintain close working relationships with other education providers and the Local Authority. The College has been a long-standing member of S7, the Surrey and Sussex group of Sixth Form Colleges, arguably the leading college consortium nationally, and we look forward to continued positive engagement with schools, colleges and the local community for the benefit of all.
With strong leadership from our passionate and committed senior leadership team, and with the support of excellent teaching and support staff across all areas, we look forward to the continued evolution of the College; we also look forward to meeting committed, engaging and passionate people who want to join us to further enhance the life-chances and choices of our students – which is of course our main mission as educators.
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