Job Description

Woking College

Surrey

Job type:

Part Time, Permanent

Start date:

08 September 2025

Apply by:

27 August 2025

Job overview

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The Role

This is a rarely available opportunity to join our team and support teachers and students to ensure the smooth running of the Visual Arts Department, with a strong emphasis on supporting 3D Design. This role will be up to 15 hours, term-time only (or as close to 15 hours as possible). The exact working pattern can be discussed at interview, but this is likely to be over 2 or 3 days per week, term-time only. For info, the standard College day runs from 8.30am to 4.00pm.

Our Art Technicians provide a vital role supporting staff and students, we are looking for candidates with a passion for art and creativity - this is an exciting time to join the department within our friendly College.

We are looking for exceptional candidates for this key supportive role within the department. We expect high performance from all our staff and are looking for enthusiastic candidates who are passionate about art to join our friendly team. Candidates should demonstrate their ability and suitability to both the role and the culture of the College.

The Department

The Visual Arts department offers:

CTEC in Art and Design (Levels 2 and 3) A Levels Photography A Level Fine Art A Level Textiles A Level 3D Design A Level Graphic Design

Classes use a wide range of materials, processes and techniques to ensure students develop their skills during the course of their studies. Our students progress to some of the best Degree and Foundation courses in the country. The department is based in a purpose-built art block, which includes a Mac suite for Graphics as well as a fully equipped 3D workshop. The department hosts a range of extra-curricular activities which have included trips to Falmouth and Brighton as well as life-drawing and fashion workshops.

The department celebrates student work in our annual Arts Festival exhibition, which includes our fashion show and awards ceremony. In addition, the department has a close relationship with a number of Universities including UCA and Falmouth University who have delivered a range of bespoke enrichment workshops specifically for the college.

Why work with us?

Woking College has a strong sense of community in which everyone is valued; we look forward to welcoming new members of staff to join our team.

In addition to staff development, sharing best practice sessions, and regular support, the following is short selection of what the College offers to staff:

Free on-site parking Staff room with free hot drinks available to all staff, Friday cakes Onsite canteen with a range of healthy options to purchase, and a Costa coffee shop Regular staff social events: bowling, staff quiz, summer BBQ, weekend walks/cycling, Christmas lunch, Christmas party College gym available for staff use, yoga classes, staff football (new 3G pitch), run club Staff clubs/support groups: book club, menopause group, group for Parents/carers of children with mental health concerns Access to prayer/multi faith room

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:

September 2025

Hours:

up to 15 hours per week, term-time only (39 weeks per year)

Salary:

Actual salary for 15 hours per week, across 2 or 3 days, term-time only is 8,872 per annum, inclusive of fringe allowance FTE 25,480 per annum, inclusive of fringe allowance.

To Apply

: Please download the Application Pack and click the Apply Now button to access the Application Form via the College website.

CVs will not be accepted on their own. Applicants must have the Right to Work in the UK.

Please ensure education and employment history are completed in full, 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.

Closing date: 9am, Wednesday 27 August 2025

Interviews: to be held on Wednesday 3 September 2025 (date subject to change)

Completed applications, or any queries regarding the role or your application, should be sent via email to Kirsty Crook (Personnel Officer): recruitment@woking.ac.uk

Please note that applications/queries may not be responded to during the College summer break (particularly 28 July to 20 August 2025). Applicants will receive acknowledgements and/or queries will be responded to, from Thu 21/Fri 22 August 2025 onwards.

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.

About

Woking College

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Woking College

Rydens Way, Woking
Surrey
GU22 9DL
United Kingdom

+44 1483 761036

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 greatlyenhance 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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