ESOL Lecturer

Cyflog: 12685 - 24967 Per Annum

About us:

Gower College Swansea is one of the largest colleges in Wales with a strong reputation for high quality teaching and learning. We have six campuses across the city with over 4,500 full time learners and 10,000 part time learners. We currently have a turnover of over £50 million making us a major employer in the region with approximately 1,000 staff.

At Gower College Swansea we are passionate about investing in our staff and looking after their wellbeing to ensure they feel supported in work and also at home.

The role:

An exciting opportunity has arisen for two individuals to join our well-established and highly successful ESOL team, delivering on a range of ESOL courses.

The ESOL team is based in our historic Llwyn Y Bryn campus, located in the Uplands area of Swansea. Gower College Swansea currently has just over 700 ESOL learners, who are looking to develop their English Language skills with a view to progressing onto higher levels of learning or into employment.

To cater for increasing demand, we are seeking applications from outstanding individuals to deliver exceptional teaching and learning experiences for our ESOL learners. If you are passionate about teaching people from a wide variety of backgrounds, including asylum seekers and refugees, this could be a hugely rewarding career.

• Part-time (18.5 hours per week)
• Fixed term until August 2025
• £12,685 - £24,967 per annum
• Llwyn-Y-Bryn & Kingsway campus

Key Responsibilities:

• Plan, prepare, and teach across a range of courses ensuring schemes/records of work, assignment schedules, are appropriate to the syllabus content and awarding body standards
• Develop and employ a variety of teaching and learning strategies, including the use of ILT, delivering successful outcomes for our students
• Assist the team in achieving targets for retention and attainment

About you:

• Possess a degree, or equivalent, in a relevant area
• Hold a CELTA certificate (or level 5 equivalent)
• Possess a recognised Teaching Qualification (PGCE), or be prepared to work towards one
• Knowledge and experience of teaching non-native speakers of English
• Be committed to continuous improvement and quality and have a sincere desire to help our students achieve
• Clear and confident communicator with excellent organisational and problem solving skills

Benefits for you:

• 46 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, and the college is closed for two weeks over the Christmas period
• A Teacher's Pension Scheme with an average employer contribution of 23.68% (2023)
• Gower College Swansea's internal PGCE Programme
• Discounted study opportunities on College programmes
• View more benefits here: https://www.gcs.ac.uk/recruitment/staff-benefits-wellbeing

Interview process:

• Interviews are scheduled for 20th January 2025.
• All lecturing roles require a 20 minute micro-teach as part of the interview process
• The micro-teach is then followed by a panel interview
• Due to the micro-teach element of the process,interviews must be conducted in-person

We welcome applications from individuals regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We particularly welcome applications from groups currently underrepresented within our organisation.

If you wish to continue your application journey using Welsh Language, please visit our Cymraeg site. We encourage Welsh Language applications as we recognise the importance of delivering services in Welsh, and the need to grow our bilingual workforce.

Gower College Swansea is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. Appointments are subject to an enhanced DBS check and require registration with the Education Workforce Council for Wales.

Please note that we are expecting a high volume applicants for this vacancy. If we do, we may close the post before the specified date, therefore an early application is recommended.