Hello from Educafe and Berkshire School of English

Educafe and Berkshire School of English work side-by-side to provide the best English language support to residents in Reading and West Berkshire.  We strive to create new and innovative programmes for non-native speakers that are relevant to their lives, supporting themselves and finding work.

We are delighted to let you know that we are now recruiting for sessional tutors to work with our existing team to deliver new and existing community ESOL programmes both face-to-face and online using Zoom and Microsoft Teams.   These positions are on a ‘freelance’, self-employed basis, but will involve a weekly commitment (which is  discussed during interview).

The roles/courses vary in length, are on a contract for services basis and pay between £20 and £25 per hour. 

While some of our courses run for a whole academic year, others are shorter, six – twelve weeks. Once you have been accepted as one our teachers, as and when work is available, we will let you know and hope you are available for work.  For example we are looking for tutors for three courses at the moment beginning in May and April.

Successful applicants will need to have a clean driving licence and their own transport as travelling may be necessary.

Person Specification – Essential and desirable criteria 

The role: The ESOL Tutor will be required to design, plan, deliver and evaluate high quality learning opportunities and experiences for learners in response to their identified needs.
We are looking for someone who is experienced teaching pre-entry and entry level learners including learners new to ESOL. Experience working with refugees is also desirable along with experience of online teaching using Zoom and/or Microsoft Teams.

Key Responsibilities:

• Motivate and inspire learners to promote achievement and develop their skills to enable progression.
• Plan and deliver effective learning programmes for diverse groups or individuals in a safe and inclusive environment, following ACL safeguarding procedures.
• Promote the benefits of technology and support learners in its use. Address the mathematics and English needs of learners and work creatively to overcome individual barriers to learning.
• Enable learners to share responsibility for their own learning and assessment, setting goals that stretch and challenge. 
• Apply appropriate and fair methods of assessment and provide constructive and timely feedback to support progression and achievement
• Maintain and update your teaching / training expertise, vocational competence, and digital skills. 
• Contribute to organisational development and quality improvement through collaboration with others.
• To initially assess learners’ starting points and monitor their progress, set challenging tasks and objectives, and build on and extend learning for all learners.
• To support learners to develop personal, social and employability skills in order for them to progress into further learning or jobs that meet local and national needs.

Applicant Requirements:

Qualifications: Diploma in teaching of adults in the further education sector (DTTLS level 5 qualification) or equivalent.

Experience: 1+ year of post-graduate experience within a similar role.

Compliance: Proof of ability to work and live in the UK.
Current DBS check and references covering the last 5 years. Travel : Clean 

UK driving license with the ability to commute to and from work independently.

Hours : Part-time roles available.

Please apply here: https://form.jotform.com/BSE01/tutor-application-form

This application form will take around 30-minutes to complete.  It wil require longer answers which you may like to prepare in a Word document to cut and paste.  There is no save for later with this form, it needs to be completed in one sitting.  We suggest scrolling through the form to prepare your longer answers before starting the form.

We hope you would like to become a member of our teaching team and look forward to hearing from you.

Best wishes

Clare