Please note a full application including a covering letter detailing your experience alongside a CV is required for applications to be considered. Please be advised applications made without providing a cover letter will not be accepted.
Background of Department
The School of Social Work, Education and Teacher Education (SWETE) is home to a vibrant Initial Teacher Education (ITE) department, delivering high-quality provision across the Primary, Secondary, and Further Education and Skills phases. Within this, the Primary ITE team offers a dynamic and research-informed portfolio of courses, preparing subject specialists to become reflective, resilient, and impactful teachers.
We are seeking to appoint a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Primary Initial Teacher Education, specialising in English, Maths and Science. This role offers an exciting opportunity to work with trainees across a range of routes, supporting them to develop strong subject knowledge, pedagogical expertise, and inclusive classroom practice. Having a background or interest in Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) to support our commitment to inclusive education would be beneficial.
The role also involves contributing to the design, review, and enhancement of ITE programmes, ensuring that courses remain innovative, coherent, and responsive to national priorities and partnership needs. You will provide pastoral and academic support to trainees, monitoring their progress and wellbeing, and intervening effectively where additional support is required.
Who are we looking for?
You will play a central role in planning and teaching within the ITE curriculum, ensuring that sessions are engaging, research-informed, and closely aligned with current school practice. In addition, you will undertake regular school check-ins with mentors and trainees, including some site visits to support the quality assurance of school-based training and trainee assessment, working closely with school-based mentors to ensure high-quality training experiences and consistent progress.
As part of a university community committed to research and impact, you will be expected to engage with Research, Enterprise and Knowledge Mobilisation (REKM) activity, contributing to scholarly work, professional dialogue, and the dissemination of best practice. There will also be opportunities to support recruitment through interviewing and selection processes, and to contribute to wider academic module delivery across the Primary ITE provision.
This role would suit those already working in Higher Education ITE, as well as experienced school practitioners looking to transition into a university-based role while maintaining strong links with practice.
The commitment to achieving a PhD or EdD and Fellowship of the HEA within a suitable timeframe should be clearly demonstrated in the application, if these are otherwise missing.
Driving is a desirable requirement - the successful person will be asked to complete work as a link tutor in our schools and so will need to drive to schools (close in distance ideally to their home), to support the mentoring and trainees who will be on their school experience placements in school.
How will you work?
Candidates need to be available to work Monday - Friday, with some flexibility at certain points of the year (e.g. August Clearing (3 days) and some Saturday Open Days). There is some flexibility to work from home on non-teaching days.
How to apply
Start date for applications: 29th July 2026
Closing date for applications: 26th August 2026
Interviews are to be held: W/C 21st September 2026
If you require further information regarding the post please feel free to contact Gilly Gidley, Head of Primary ITE at [email protected] (strictly no agencies, thank you) quoting reference number REQ06384
Please note, Canterbury Christ Church University reserve the right to bring the closing date of this position forward where a high volume of applications is received.
Kindly be advised this post is subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring service check.
Additional Information
Canterbury Christ Church University truly welcomes fresh perspectives and new voices. We want you to bring the real you to work, so we are committed to building a genuinely inclusive working environment where everyone is welcomed and where everyone can have a true sense of belonging. Our spirit of community will help us to eliminate discrimination and will enable us all to thrive in a culture that is underpinned by fairness and justice. We therefore seek people to join us who will proactively support and shape this aim and contribute in their own unique way. If this is you, then we are waiting to hear from you. #yourCCCU
Our University is deeply committed to shaping sustainable futures as a key part of its mission and values. If you share this passion, we encourage you to join us in making CCCU a more socially and environmentally conscious, sustainable place to study and work
Employment Visa Clarification: According to the UK Government Points Based System, this position may not fulfil the requirements for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker Route application.
Please note applications must be made online via the University website; details sent directly via email cannot be considered.
Prior consideration will be given to applicants in the University’s redeployment pool. No agencies, thank you.
For more information about this role, please view the job description via the attachments link above.
Location
Canterbury:
North Holmes Road, Canterbury, Kent, CT1 1QU
