Part-time / Up to 6 hours per week / Permanent
Are you passionate about supporting residents of Leicester to develop skills and qualifications to achieve their potential?
Leicester Adult Skills and Learning Service 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.
We are currently looking to appoint a suitably qualified and experienced tutor to deliver Counselling qualifications at Level 2 and 3. Ideally a practitioner, you should have experience of teaching to at least Level 2, but experience of teaching to a higher level would be beneficial.
This is a fantastic opportunity for suitably-qualified, dedicated and skilled Adult Tutors to join our successful team. As an inspirational and motivated Adult Tutor you'll provide a high-quality learning experience that promotes achievement and learner progression.
This is a part-time, sessional post working between 3 and 6 hours per week depending on the uptake of the course. You’ll be based at the Adult Education College. You'll be able to travel to a variety of settings and schools across the City and work outside of normal office hours in order to provide learning opportunities to a broad range of groups.
What you’ll be doing
As an experienced Tutor, 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. You’ll need to have an excellent understanding of industry standards and be able to teach up to level 3 Counselling qualifications.
What you'll need
You'll have excellent communication, interpersonal and administrative skills. 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 the necessary knowledge and 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 4; an English qualification at level 2; maths and IT qualifications at level 2 or a commitment to work towards this. You'll also need to be qualified to level 3 or 4 in Counselling.
The 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 an informal discussion about this post, please contact Clare Luvaglia-Gori on 0116 454 6912 or email clare.luvaglia-gori@leicester.gov.uk
Interview/Assessments will take place on Thursday 24th February 2022