Part Time / Up to 25 Hours Per Week / Permanent
Are you passionate about supporting residents of Leicester to develop skills and qualifications to achieve their potential?
We are looking for suitably qualified and inspirational English tutors for our Functional Skills courses. There is also an exciting opportunity if you are confident in teaching English to be given support to transfer and develop your skills to teach across the two curriculum areas engaging with a wider range of adult learners.
Working closely with the Curriculum Coordinator and Lead Tutor, you'll provide a high quality learning experience that promotes achievement and learner progression. We deliver programmes that are thoroughly prepared and responsive to the needs, expectations, and motivations of a broad range of adult learners.
This is a part time post working up to 25 hours per week. You’ll be based at the main Adult Education College; however, you'll be able to travel to various community settings across the city. You’ll be able to work outside of normal office hours, including evenings, to provide learning opportunities to a broad range of groups.
What you’ll be doing
You'll plan and deliver face-to-face and online courses to adult learners, ensuring that learning is properly structured, reflects current good practice and that assessment is robust to meet the demands of quality assurance and awarding body expectations. You'll evaluate and provide continuous improvement to your teaching practice and have in place strategies that ensure maximum attendance, retention and achievement. You'll develop and create engaging resources, as well as use teaching methods and styles which promote active learning, to ensure that learners achieve their full potential in their learning journey. You’ll mark student work, and monitor learning, to ensure outcomes and success rates are achieved. You’ll attend regular team meetings, CPD sessions, take part in initial assessment and enrolment sessions, attend internal verification meetings, and assist in exams.
What you’ll need
As well as having excellent communication, interpersonal and administrative skills, you’ll have the appropriate qualifications, which include:
1. Teaching qualification at Level 4 or above e.g. PGCE, DTTLS or DET
2. Level 5 English/ESOL subject specialism, or willingness to work towards it
3. Minimum GCSE A to C or equivalent English qualification
4. Level 2 IT qualification, or willingness to work towards it
Alongside these qualifications you’ll have experience of teaching English Functional Skills to adults aged 18 years and above, from diverse groups. You'll be able to demonstrate a commitment and enthusiasm for delivering quality learning experiences, identifying individual learning needs, designing and planning effective and engaging lessons. In addition, you’ll be able to confidently use relevant Information Learning Technology in and outside the classroom such as Google Classroom, Google Meet and other applications. Committed to adult learning, you’ll be passionate about teaching which promotes inclusion, equality, and anti-oppressive practices.
This post is subject to an Enhanced DBS check.
What we can offer you
As well as the satisfaction of helping to improve thousands of lives across Leicester, you can look forward to a work environment that encourages a healthy work/life balance. You’ll enjoy generous annual leave, membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme, and the option of flexible working. We’ll also give you the chance to develop your skills and expertise with a variety of training and development opportunities. In addition, you can choose from a number of flexible benefits, including childcare vouchers, discounts on city buses and trains, and help with relocation to Leicester, where appropriate. For an illustrative value of your benefits package, take a look at our benefits calculator.
Join us
We’re committed to recruiting a diverse and highly talented workforce as we continue to build a council that is fitting and representative of our great city. That’s why we’ve designed our recruitment process to put you at your ease, make you feel welcome and bring the best out of you. We’ll do all we can to make our recruitment process as fair as possible. To help you with your application, take a look at the ‘our approach to recruitment’ page.
For a chat about this post, please feel free to contact Emma Coppock on 0116 4541899 or email.
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