Part Time / 3 to 10 Hours Per Week / Permanent
Are you passionate about supporting residents of Leicester to develop skills and qualifications to achieve their potential?
Leicester Adult Education offer a large and diverse programme of further education qualification courses as well as extensive community-based provision. We have a diverse, enthusiastic student community, taught, and supported by well qualified staff.
Teaching Assistant and Early Years qualifications are a vital aspect of today’s world of work. Our provision in this area is expanding and we need qualified tutors with the passion and motivation to help us move forward and provide the best learning experience possible for our adult learners across the city.
This is a fantastic opportunity for suitably qualified, dedicated, and skilled individual to join our successful team. As an inspirational Tutor, you'll provide a high-quality learning experience that promotes achievement and learner progression.
This is a part-time, permanent post working between 3 and 10 hours per week. You’ll be based at the Adult Education College but could be teaching at a variety of city-wide venues. You'll be able to travel to a variety of settings and schools, and work outside of normal office hours to provide learning opportunities to a broad range of groups.
What you’ll be doing
You'll prepare and deliver face-to-face and on-line 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. 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 select appropriate 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.
What you'll need
You’ll have an excellent understanding of delivering both non accredited beginner courses and qualifications up to level 3. Using excellent communication and interpersonal skills you’ll be able to effectively engage with students to deliver high quality courses. Using your expertise and creativity, you'll be able to identify individual learning needs to design and plan lessons, accordingly, ensuring successful outcomes for learners are achieved. You'll have proficient IT skills to use relevant software packages and ILT to teach both in the classroom and on-line (through Google Classroom and Meet).
In addition, you’ll have the required qualifications which include: a teaching qualification at Level 3 or above and a commitment to work towards Level 5; an English and maths qualification at level 2; and be qualified to at least level 3 in Supporting Teaching and Learning or Early Years education.
Appointment 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 several flexible benefits, including discounts on city buses and trains. 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.
If you’d like a chat before applying, feel free to contact Rebekah Stevenson on 0116 454 1344 or email rebekah.stevenson@leicester.gov.uk
This is an open advert therefore we will complete the short-listing soon after receiving your application. If short-listed, you'll be called for an assessment and/or interview thereafter.