Shaping Futures

The College is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community with the belief that diversity plays an important role in the success of our business. 

The Higher Education Sport department is actively recruiting an experienced Lecturer in Sport Science with a particular focus on the Social Sciences. This post will play an integral part of our Blended Degree provision which consists of a suite of Pearson Higher Nationals and BSc Top up Degree in Sports Science and Sport Coaching. 

This is an exciting opportunity for you to join a progressive, learner focused department that places innovative teaching, learning and assessment at the forefront of their professional practice.

For this role, you will have experience of teaching undergraduate students within your specialist area of the Sociology of Sport, Sports Management or Sports Coaching. You will also have the ability to contribute towards the delivery and assessment of Qualitative Research Methods.

This role is a full time, permanent position. Moreover, the post requires regular travel throughout the UK to support our Blended students. 

The Applicant 

You will have a commitment to student centered learning with teaching and curriculum design, underpinned by scholarly activity, research and/or experience as an applied practitioner. 

To be successful you will have a Masters in a relevant social science discipline and a good honours degree that is relevant to the post along with teaching experience in HE.

We are proud to have achieved the Investor in Diversity award. We actively encourage applications who are current under-represented and where we are using positive action under the Equality Act. We welcome everyone to consider becoming a part of our journey. The College is striving to attract, develop and retain the very best people by offering a motivating and inclusive workplace in which talent is truly recognised.

Alongside our commitment to your professional and personal development, we also offer a generous benefits package including:

• A competitive pension scheme
• Cycle-to-work scheme 
• On-site parking
• One campus facility 
• Access to healthcare scheme
• Subsided nursery fees
• Up to 44 days annual leave per year
• Additional annual leave available
• Generous Maternity/Paternity pay 
• Fantastic CPD and inclusive resources for development
• Well-being hours 
• Opportunities of volunteering within local community and charities

We offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, agile working, staff forums, staff working groups for sustainability, staff steering groups for Investors in Diversity and support services to support with mental health and wellbeing for staff from different backgrounds.

We are and have consistently invested in providing our learners and employees with an outstanding and unrivalled range of modern facilities and resources.

Due to the limits put upon sponsorship allocations, we are currently unable to offer sponsorship candidates for this role. This remains under review.

If you require any support to apply for this job, please email recruitment@loucoll.ac.uk