Application Pack

Personnel & Professional Development Lancaster & College Morecambe Road Lancaster LA1 2TY Telephone: 01524 521507 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.lmc.ac.uk Your Application

Within this Application Pack, you will find the following: • Job Description and Person Specification • Application Form • Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form More information about the College can be found on our website: www.lmc.ac.uk

Lancaster & Morecambe College has a policy In your application, you should show how your of equality of opportunity which underpins skills, knowledge and experience are related its recruitment and selection process. This to each point on the Person Specification, and process is designed to ensure that job-related include examples which demonstrate your factors are used to determine appointments, ability to do the job. that all applicants are treated fairly and consistently, and that the best person for the Your completed application should be post is appointed. forwarded to our Personnel Department, to arrive no later than the closing date shown on Please complete the Application Form clearly and the Job Description. in full, as it is the first stage of the selection process. We do not accept CVs without an accompanying, We will write to you again if you have fully completed Application Form. been selected for interview. If we have not responded to your application within four Each post has a Job Description and Person weeks of the closing date, please assume that Specification which outline the main duties your application has been unsuccessful. of the post and the qualifications, skills and experience required to carry out the job. The College

“A place of excellence for training in the technical, professional and creative industries; justly proud of our aspiring, adaptable, work ready graduates.”

Lancaster & Morecambe College is situated in There are many opportunities for supported an attractive greenfield site, a few minutes away personal and professional development, from the shores of and the including a comprehensive Teacher Education historic city centre of Lancaster, and within easy programme in partnership with the University reach of several Areas of Outstanding Natural of Central . Beauty and the Lake District National Park. The Treetops Nursery on-site is graded We are a thriving and vibrant Further outstanding by Ofsted and is used by staff, Education College, with an excellent local students and the local community. reputation and strong financial management. The College specialises in vocational training Employee benefits include generous leave across a wide range of areas. We have strong and other allowances; salary sacrifice links with many local employers, delivering scheme; family friendly policies; a supportive apprenticeships and providing customised Occupational Health service; on-site sports training, often delivered in the workplace. facilities and gym membership option. Our suite of professional accredited business- Annual Leave entitlement is 35 days for facing courses (CMI; CIPD; AAT) are popular lecturers and 26 days for support staff, in and successful. addition to bank holidays and a number of The College has excellent real work College closure days. environments to assist our students in The College operates two defined benefit attaining industry standards in their chosen contributory pension schemes – the Local field, including a well-equipped business Government Pension Scheme for support centre; the Coulson Restaurant; new, well- staff and the Teachers’ Pension Scheme for equipped hair & beauty salons; 3G and MUGA teaching staff. sports pitches; dog day care facilities and a state of the art Construction & Engineering centre. How to find us

By Car By Train Public Service Bus Leave M6 at J34. Main site by foot and bus There are regular public Follow the A683 to from Lancaster Railway service buses from Lancaster Morecambe and Station. and Morecambe which stop for approximately 2.5 miles. Exit the station’s back near the Morecambe Road entrance past the ticket or the Torrisholme Road Take the exit for Lancaster entrances to the College. A589. office (onto Meeting House Lane). If you exit the station’s For more information: Lancaster & Morecambe front entrance (past café), www.stagecoachbus.com College is ahead on your left. turn left and left again onto Sports Centre users should Meeting House Lane. use this entrance. Cycles Walk down the hill to meet Staff and visitors should the one way system (A6) with Bicycle racks are available continue past the College Waterstone’s Bookshop on across the campus. and take the first exit from the corner. the roundabout, continuing on the A589 Morecambe Turn left and follow the hill Parking Road. Take the next left onto down to the bus station (on Car parking is available and Penrhyn Road. Turn left at your right). there are designated spaces the end onto Torrisholme Bus numbers 2, 2A, and 4 for disabled drivers. Road. The College main car will take you to the College’s park is on your left as you main site. come down the hill.

M6 MOTORWAY (VIA BYPASS)

Sta & student parking via rear entrance

Visitor parking, drop-o & Sports Centre parking via front entrance

HEYSHAM PORT

Front cover photographs clockwise from top left: Lancaster Castle; Winter Gardens, Morecambe; the Midland Hotel, Morecambe; Ashton Memorial, Lancaster; Sculpture, Morecambe Promenade; Millennium Bridge, Lancaster; Morecambe Bay.