Job Description
Children , Education and Justice Service
Adult & Family learning Team - ESOL Family Learning worker
City wide to be negotiated
Rate of Pay: £22.67 per hour
Hours: Casual contract Hours will vary from 0-10 hours per week.
We are seeking Family Learning workers to deliver a series of groups and activities designed to support parents of families with limited English, to familiarise parents with nursery and primary school practices and to enable them to successfully integrate within their local communities.
Their duties will include delivering a series of Family ESOL programmes to assist parents and children with transitions from nursery to school, encourage reading in English and their home language, discuss intercultural aspects of parenting and understand the Scottish education system. This could also include support to bilingual parents attending courses such as PEEP, Raising Children with Confidence and more.
An Adult Education centred approach is required for this work.
Experience of working with people whose first language is not English
or a qualification in English language teaching is desirable.
Applicants should have good literacy skills in English.
Experience of group work with adult learners is required.
We would welcome applications from speakers of Arabic, Kurdish, Dari, Pashto, Somali and Ukrainian.
As an equal opportunity employer, we recognise and value the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings. We would like to encourage conversations with people who have not previously thought about employment within a Local Authority.
We warmly invite people to take this opportunity to demonstrate their ability regardless of age, disability, sex, gender, race, marital status, sexual orientation, religious or political beliefs.
This post is regulated work with children and/or protected adults under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007. The preferred candidate will be required to join the PVG Scheme or undergo a PVG Scheme update check. Where an individual has spent a continuous period of 3 months or more out with the UK in the last 5 years, an Overseas Criminal Record Check will be required. You will be required to provide this check. An unconditional offer of employment and commencement in the post will be subject to the outcome of both these pre-employment checks being deemed satisfactory.
We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.
As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure that we’re bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work.
To help achieve this, we’re changing the way we interview and assess candidates by moving from a competency-based interview approach to a behavioural and technical (skills for the job) based approach. This new way of interviewing will allow us to assess how you think and how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working.
Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.
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