Workers' Educational Association • Portsmouth, Hampshire
About this role
Adult Core Skills Sessional Tutors
£29.78 per hour (includes holiday pay, plus teachers’ pension and agile working opportunities)
Portsmouth or Southampton
The WEA is the UK’s largest voluntary sector provider of adult education, a charity dedicated to bringing high quality, professional education into the heart of communities. We believe that all adults, regardless of their situation, should have access to education.
WEA are looking for talented individuals to help us deliver our mission – to bring education within reach.
Job Description
As an Adult Core Skills Tutor delivering ESOL, Functional Skills English and Maths, Digital, Employability, you will provide the highest possible quality teaching and learning to a group of learners. These courses are non-accredited, with the potential to move to accredited as the year progresses. There may also be scope to deliver other programmes depending on your experience.
Providing engaging teaching, learning and assessment with a creative and supportive approach to teaching, adapting to a range of learning styles, and ability to differentiate delivery to learners with mixed abilities to develop learners` knowledge and understanding.
As a Tutor, you should have
Teaching qualification (PCGE, CertEd, DET or Scottish equivalent), level 5/SCQF Level 8 specialism (if you have Internal Verifier or Assessor qualifications that would be advantageous)
Experience of design and implementation of innovative learning, schemes of work and lesson plans.
Experience in a range of initial assessment and diagnostic tools.
A thorough understanding of the quality processes that underpin your delivery.
Experience of working with adults in hard-to-reach areas who may face multiple barriers to education.
A strong team work ethic. We like to collaborate and support each other.
A passion for adult education and making a difference
Whilst we normally expect our tutors to hold a recognised teaching qualification, we also recognise that many individuals are qualified by experience. These tutors often bring a wealth of transferable skills and subject expertise that can add real value to our courses.
If you are interested in applying but do not currently hold a formal teaching qualification, we would still welcome your enquiry. Please contact us at recruitment@wea.ac.uk, and we will consider your application on an individual basis.
When emailing, please ensure you include the area in which you live and the course(s) you are interested in teaching.
We are working hard to create a workplace that reflects the communities we seek to serve and in which everyone feels empowered to be themselves and work together to drive positive change.
We strongly encourage applicants from a diverse range of candidates and encourage everyone with the appropriate skills, experiences and potential to apply. Should you need any support with your application, then please email recruitment@wea.ac.uk
In our recent OFSTED inspection, we received a GOOD overall grade, with an OUTSTANDING rating for Behaviour and Attitudes and Personal Development.
You can read more about the WEA, on our website Why learn with the WEA? There are many reasons | WEA
Below are some of our great benefits
Agile working opportunities.
Employee assistance programme.
Eye care scheme.
Wellbeing programme
If you are interested in this role, please submit your application at your earliest convenience. We reserve the right to close the role early if we receive a large volume of applications.