lecturing hours - how does that work

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I'm turning into a right pain-in-the-a** on this forum!

Quick/ish question you might be able to help me with. God knows you've all been so helpful so far I wish I'd discovered this space a year ago.

There's a full time permanent lecturing position that my supervisors have advised me to apply for. They reckon that even though I don't fit the job spec (no publications, not enough teaching experience) I should apply anyway so the university in question "has my details". They've then advised that once I (presumably) receive a 'thanks but no thanks' email I'm to respond to the contact person to say I'm available for ad hoc lecturing hours. In fact, that's all I'm looking for anyway.

Does this sound like something that would be done? It just sits a bit strange with me to apply for a job when I don't fit the personal specification. Also is that how people get "hours"?

The closing date is this week and I'm thinking it would actually be best to not apply and just contact the person anyway in a few weeks.

Hope that makes sense. Any advice welcome.

I am in senior lecturer role at a uni. I do a lot of teaching. I advise all my students to apply for jobs even if they don't tick all the boxes - writing applications and going for interviews is exceptionally good experience. And I do know of people who went for interviews and uni said "you're not right for this role but we have this other role..."

We have a lot of hourly paid lecturers in addition to salaried staff (post-92 uni). The hourly paid contracts usually go to people that the perm teaching staff know of, or the PhD students that want some extra income.
Definitely a good idea to get on the radar now for teaching contracts for 19/20. It certainly won’t hurt.
At ours they establish most of the teaching gaps they need to fill post clearing. But there are already some known gaps (covering sickness/mat leave etc).