Teacher of ESOL to Adults (Sessional - evenings)
Woking College
Woking, Surrey
- Expiring soon
- Salary:
- £31.65 per hour
- Job type:
- Part Time, Casual
- Start date:
- Term starts on 27 August 2024, ESOL enrolment will be in the first week of September 2024
- Apply by:
- 3 June 2024
Job overview
Rated "Outstanding" in every area, by Ofsted in November 2022, Woking College are proud to provide excellence in sixth form education.
"Staff feel proud to work at the College. They are exceptionally positive about the culture leaders have created. They describe leaders as visible, approachable and highly focussed on staff wellbeing. Leaders celebrate achievement frequently in staff forums which helps staff to feel recognised, highly valued and a member of the Woking College family."
The Role
Inspiring and enthusiastic member of staff required with experience in teaching English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) to our adult students over two evenings. We are looking for a sessional member of staff, with dynamism and passion for ESOL. With a friendly, supportive team, and exceptional College facilities, this is an exciting time to join our growing College.
Applications from teachers in Schools and Sixth Form College sectors are welcome. A full mentoring programme is arranged to introduce all new staff to sixth form college systems and procedures and to support and encourage professional development. We are looking for an exceptional candidate to join the team and inspire our students. We expect high performance from all our staff and candidates should demonstrate their ability and suitability to both the role and the culture of the College.
The Department
The ESOL department consists of a Head of Department, 3 members of teaching staff and 5 sessional teachers, delivering both daytime and evening classes to 16-19 year olds and adult students. The ESOL department provides provision from Entry Level to Level 2 and to a wide range of the community, including Syrian and Ukrainian refugees.
The College’s most recent Ofsted (November 2022) rated the Adult Learning programmes as Outstanding, commenting:
“Leaders, managers and staff are rightly proud of the high-quality ESOL courses which successfully improve the life chances of adults in the community. Together they identified the increased number of refugees in the community and skilfully designed a foundation course to help these students develop their skills and confidence. As a result, most quickly progress on the ESOL programme.”
“Teachers review ESOL students’ written English statements quickly and provide feedback so they are clear on what they have done well and what they need to do to improve. Students repeat these tasks and apply the feedback with confidence which helps them to develop the quality of their written and spoken English.”
The College is proud of the skills that the ESOL department provide to students, giving students the confidence to use more accurate grammar and a wider vocabulary, working towards their personal aims and widening their future life choices.
Application Information:
College dates: the 2024/2025 academic year starts on Tuesday 27 August 2024 for staff and 16-18 year old student enrolment.
ESOL enrolment: will take place in the first week of September 2024, with classes starting shortly afterwards. Most evening classes are 7pm to 9.15pm (subject to change)
Hourly rate: £31.65 hourly teaching rate
To Apply: Please download the Application Pack and click the Apply Now button to access the Application Form via the College website.
CVs will not be accepted on their own. Applicants must have the Right to Work in the UK.
Please ensure education and employment history is completed fully, gaps in employment must be accounted for under the section entitled “Periods when not working”. We would like to see your passion for the role and the College in your supporting statement, please use this opportunity to include personal skills, experience relevant to the post, and reasons why you feel you would be successful if this post.
Closing date: 9am, Monday 3 June 2024
Interviews: to be held on Friday 14 June 2024
Shortlisted candidates will be notified, invited for interview and referees will be contacted. For further information, to have an initial discussion, or to return a completed Application Form, please contact: Kirsty Crook, Personnel Officer: recruitment@woking.ac.uk Tel: 01483 761036
Important information:
The College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and successful applicants will be subject to Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks. The College is committed to equal opportunities.
The College encourages all candidates to be familiar with Section 1 of the DfE paper on “Keeping Children Safe in Education” September 2023 and the College's Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy. These documents can be found on the College's Staff Vacancies page, and Policies page.
In line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) the College asks candidates to consider Woking College's Privacy Notice for Job Applicants, which can be found on the Staff Vacancies page of the College’s website.
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About Woking College
Woking College is an oversubscribed and highly successful college of over 1400 students drawing students from more than 60 different schools. Our very successful strategic focus has, for many years, been to create the very best environment for high quality of teaching and learning alongside the widest range of enrichment activities enhancing the cultural capital of our students. Alongside this we place a very strong emphasis on maintaining our wonderful community, we have a more diverse College population than might be thought of as typical for Surrey but we are determined to maintain our inclusive ethos. We are fully committed to innovation whilst maintaining a humane and caring approach for all members of the College community which has resulted in the doubling of the student population in recent years. These approaches have been key to securing Grade 1 ‘Outstanding’ in all seven categories in our October 2022 Ofsted inspection.
Woking College is enjoying record results, very positive value-added and an abundance of applications and quite rightly has a teaching and learning culture which is the envy of other institutions, indeed in recent staff surveys over 95% of College staff said they were proud to work at Woking College!
We have benefited hugely from an impressive transformation of the College’s estate over recent years, with the completion of a new Sports Centre in 2014, a new Arts Block in 2015 and a modern and larger Science Building in 2016. A full size 3G pitch was completed in 2020. A £3m teaching block and another £3m project working collaboratively with an adjacent community centre will enhance our estate even further within this academic year.
We recognise the advantages of collaboration and have worked hard over the years to build and maintain close working relationships with other education providers and the Local Authority. The College has been a long-standing member of S7, the Surrey and Sussex group of Sixth Form Colleges, possibly the leading college consortium nationally, and we look forward to continued positive engagement with schools, colleges and the local community for the benefit of all.
With strong leadership from our passionate and committed senior leadership team, and with the support of excellent teaching and support staff across all areas, we look forward to the continued evolution of the College; we also look forward to meeting committed, engaging and passionate people who want to join us to further enhance the life-chances and choices of our students – which is of course our main mission as educators.
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