Instructor / Landscape Skills
Salary: Up to £26,952 per annum (depending on qualifications and experience)
Working Pattern: Full time / 52 weeks per year
Location: Sparsholt Campus
Closing date: 11 May 2025
The Role: The College is seeking a highly motivated individual to teach and assess practical hard and soft landscape skills to groups of mixed ability students as part of their animal management course.
This is an exciting opportunity to develop your teaching expertise and educate the next generation of animal carers in areas such as construction, maintenance and repair of boundaries, structures and surfaces, health and safety and animal enclosure maintenance, for their Estate skills module.
You will be expected to deliver exceptional practical teaching using a range of equipment as well as contributing to the management of the zoo and companion animal site.
As an instructor you will also have input into animal enclosure design and landscaping of the whole zoo site. We are looking to increase biodiversity in the area and are keen for your input into how we can achieve this. You will also have co-responsibility for a workshop to include tool and equipment maintenance.
We welcome applicants who have general construction, fencing, landscaping and habitat management skills, and who have some supervisory or teaching experience. A qualification in a relevant subject at National Diploma level or higher is desirable. The ideal post holder will also hold an appropriate teaching qualification or be willing to attain one.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if sufficient applicants are received.
College Benefits:
Eligibility to join the Local Government Pension Scheme (a defined benefit pension scheme)
Death Benefit grant of 3 x salary if in the pension scheme
Occupational Sick Pay Scheme
Occupational Maternity Pay Scheme
Flexible Working Policy
Holiday entitlement of 23 days (rising to 25 days after 5 years’ service) plus Public and Bank Holidays along with college closure days at Xmas.
Access to an employee assistance scheme
Free Library membership
On-site gym at the Sparsholt campus
Facility to purchase Sparsholt produce including: plants, fruit & vegetables, fish and game.
Access to discounted hair treatments at the Andover campus
Ability to access a range of CPD events and support with undertaking professional qualifications
Various food outlets and eateries offering good value food and drink at competitive prices
The College is committed to safeguarding and promotes the welfare of all learners and expects all staff to share this commitment.
All successful applicants will be required to undertake a Disclosure and Barring (DBS) check and to provide proof of their eligibility to work in the UK.