Overview
We have a temporary role as an Education Recruitment Adviser on the Teacher Training Adviser team to cover for an adviser going on maternity leave and parental leave. Our advisers work on our contract with DfE and are successful in encouraging people to consider teaching as a career and in supporting them to become more able to secure places on teacher training courses.
The Role
* Provide one‑to‑one support to up to 200 individual candidates at any time to retain and encourage an initial interest in teaching. Help them to decide on a teaching career, and take the most appropriate steps towards this.
* Host and support events for candidates to foster and grow commitment to a teaching career.
* Help candidates to improve their readiness to apply for teacher training, e.g. by supporting them to gain school experience.
* Facilitate discussions in an online community to encourage teacher training course applications.
* Share insight with candidates on what teaching is really like, helping candidates to explore their concerns, such as those relating to classroom behaviour and setting realistic expectations on what schools require of trainees, NQTs, teachers and leaders.
Essential Criteria
* Be an experienced teacher in the compulsory educational setting in England, and have Qualified Teacher Status (QTS).
* Be sufficiently IT literate to successfully work from home using Outlook, MS Teams, and databases.
* Be willing to travel within England, with, on occasion, the need for potential overnight stays.
Desirable Criteria
* Strong evidence of resilience, emotional intelligence and commitment to peers and candidates.
* A working knowledge and experience of contemporary teacher training courses, or the early career framework.
* Experience in coaching or mentoring adults.
* Have proven ability to be adaptive to frequent change, e.g. in the policy direction of the work or emphasis on different areas of support.
* Able to identify improvements in working processes.
Education
* Bachelor’s (required)
* Qualified Teacher Status (QTS)
Experience
* Teaching: 1 year (required)
Licence / Certification
* Teaching Qualification (QTS)
Work authorisation
* United Kingdom (required)
Job Types
Full‑time, Fixed term contract
Contract length
17 months initially
Salary
Circa £35,000 per year
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