Job Description
The Service & Team:
We are seeking applications for a Skills for Life ESoL Tutor to work at our Skills for Life Centre in Roskear, Camborne to deliver at all levels. This would be for 2 sessions per week on a Monday afternoon and evening.
The successful candidates will be required to work closely and support our quality team, to ensure we are meeting Ofsted requirements.
The Role
The post holders will deliver high quality learning opportunities to groups of adults ensuring maximum retention of learners and achievement of qualifications. They will also be responsible for directing and supporting a Learning Support Assistant where necessary. The role requires the ability to assess learners, identify appropriate support and plan and deliver high quality tuition to ensure maximum learner retention. Post holder(s) should have experience delivering City & Guilds qualifications.
This is a public/customer-facing role, where the statutory English language requirement for public sector workers applies.
This position will be subject to a enhanced criminal record disclosure check.
What You’ll Need To Succeed
Candidates need to be qualified, experienced and highly motivated Skills for Life practitioners with excellent communication skills, ideally qualified to teach ESoL up to Level 2. A generic teaching qualification (PGCE, Cert Ed. or equivalent) is required and an ESoL subject specialist qualification. The post holder must also be a confident and competent ICT user.
Please read the role profile for the full details of this role attached below in this advert
What You’ll Get In Return
Cornwall Council’s ambition is to be an employer of choice, a high performing Council and a learning organisation. We commit to providing a reward and benefits package to attract, motivate and reward our employees. We offer a range of flexible working options to our staff. This helps provide our employees with a greater work/life balance. Whilst still ensuring that service needs are met.
Additional Information
The full role profile is attached here
All Adult Education Tutor posts are offered on a casual basis in the first instance and the commencement of the employment is subject to sufficient enrolments for the course to run.
For an informal discussion about this post please contact either Nicola Froud, Quality and Curriculum Adviser for ESoL
[email protected] , Nicola Beaven-Harrison
[email protected] or Sue Noy
[email protected] Area Co-ordinators
Cornwall Adult Education is a community-based organisation maintained, although not funded, by Cornwall Council.
Application Process
Please attach a supporting statement to your application, you can add your Education & Qualifications details manually using the application form timeline or you can upload your CV. Remember to demonstrate why you are suitable against each of the points marked as ‘Application’ on the Role Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience, which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had. Guidance on how to complete your application can be found here – The application process .
Please note that applications cannot be edited after they have been submitted, please contact
[email protected] if you have any queries or require assistance with your application.
Existing employees must apply using their Cornwall Council email address through the Opportunity Marketplace on Oracle.
About Us
Cornwall Council deliver services to more than half a million local people and over five million visitors a year. Working here - Cornwall Council
We are happy to talk about flexible working options such as part-time or compressed hours. More examples of our flexible working opportunities can be found here - flexible working options .
Fairness and inclusion are at the heart of our vision for Cornwall. In order to best serve our communities, we are striving to achieve a diverse workforce that is inclusive of all backgrounds, cultures and identities; e.g., race, disability, sex, gender, age, religion and sexual orientation. We are an equal opportunities and Disability Confident employer, and we will assess applicants on their merits.
Cornwall Council is committed to safeguarding and following safer recruitment principles to help make sure our staff and volunteers are suitable to work with children, young people and adults at risk. It’s a vital part of creating a safe and positive environment and making a commitment to keeping all service users safe from harm.
