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WE ARE RECRUITING!

We are recruiting!

ESOL Tutor: English for speakers of other languages

We are expanding our ESOL Team. To express your interest please send your CV to katalin@kindlecentre.org.uk. Thank you!

South Wye Development Trust Ltd @ The Kindle Centre was formed in 2006. The Trust has a partnership with the local authority, to provide English for speakers of other languages. The Trust is a registered charity and company limited by guarantee and provides support to the community by offering a whole range of community activities. We are a vibrant, progressive forward thinking organisation which always puts our community first!

 

Our values and mission

• South Wye Development Trust is committed to South Wye to benefit local people, making it a great environment to live, work, play and visit.
• We exist to support the community, harness the creativity, heritage, and diversity of the area to maintain and improve the places and spaces we look after.
• Through partnership working, stewardship and collaboration with every part of the community SWDT helps this vibrant part of Hereford City to continue to grow and thrive.
• Our challenge is to understand the desires and needs of the local community and to use our resources in a way that best supports what the community is doing.
• We will try to improve quality of life for people living and working in South Wye, and especially for those most disadvantaged, vulnerable, and socially excluded.
• Our values, in all that we do, are to ensure that we are inclusive and participative, partnership-focused, and that we deliver valuable and quality outcomes.

 

Job Description

Hours: Early evenings, but Flexible hours to be agreed.
Terms: Fixed term contract to 31st July 2024, potential to be extended.
Pay: To be discussed.

 

Summary of Post
This post serves to deliver high quality, formal scheduled ESOL teaching, including planning, delivery, assessment, and review, alongside curriculum development.

 

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• To teach groups of adults using a variety of relevant methods and approaches to enable and support learning offering information, advice, and guidance.
•  To work with the ESOL Team in the design and delivery of learning programmes to enable learners to achieve personal learning goals.
•  To provide initial and ongoing advice to prospective learners.
• To undertake the necessary preparation, marking and reviewing activities relating to the learning programmes.
• To undertake initial, diagnostic, and ongoing assessment and review and record learner progress and achievement in line with RARPA principles.
• To maintain appropriate course file information and learner records.
• To contribute to successful quality assurance by maintaining and forwarding timely accurate records within agreed timescales.
• To keep up to date with developments in the curriculum area and undertake personal and professional development and training.
  August 2023.

 

Personal Qualities
Qualifications

• Level 5 DET Diploma in Education and Training / DTLLS or
• PGCE Post-Graduate Certificate in Education
• Level 3 (A level) English
• Level 2 Maths
• TEFL, CELTA or TESOL qualification
• Ideally minimum 5 years’ experience in ESOL teaching
  Skills
• Ability to work to a high standard with an attention to detail.
• Ability to maintain professional boundaries and confidentiality and build relationships with people from a variety of backgrounds.
• Self-motivated, able to work alone as well as in a team.
• Excellent IT, verbal and written communication skills with students and colleagues.
• Flexibility and empathy to engage with all people.
• Good time management skills, including the ability to prioritise and plan work to meet deadlines.

 

General

• A genuine desire to support people from every background.
• Maintain and observe conditions of health and safety.
• Willingness to develop within the job and undergo relevant training.
• Be committed to Equality and Diversity, willing to learn and take on responsibility.
• Be positive, patient and adaptable under pressure.

 

Personal Development
Regular on-going training is provided within work hours in the following contexts: Individual online trainings, team meetings, Council led ACL training.
August 2023