About us at Hounslow

We’d love you to join us at the London Borough of Hounslow! Our people are deeply committed to providing excellent services to our residents, doing all we can to make lives as good as they can be.

We are an outstanding council, serving an outstanding borough. With brilliant, visionary leadership, a dynamic Cabinet and a can-do culture, we’ve built strong partnerships which have transformed how we serve one of London’s most diverse boroughs. Hounslow is the world in one place and full of potential. We are stepping up for our residents like never before.

About our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

We live by five core values: Lead with Heart, Do New, Pass on the Power, Harness the Mix and Be a Rock. All our work has equality, diversity and inclusion at its very heart, best articulated in “Harness the Mix”. It's about breaking down barriers between our parts and people and unlocking the problem-solving power of our amazing mix of minds. We serve a diverse community, we have a diverse workforce and we are committed to being an inclusive employer.

We work hard to create representation across our workforce and leadership community, we have thriving employee network groups and our learning and development programmes help us lead, model and breathe ways of working that eliminate inequality, inequity, injustice and bias.

As part of this and under our commitments as a Disability Confident Employer, we make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. There’s space for you to tell us what you need within our application form.

About The Role

Deliver, assess and monitor relevant high quality learning activities, which will enable learners to achieve their proposed learning outcomes and ambition for further study or employment; and that standards in teaching learning and assessment continue to improve towards outstanding across the service, meeting funders and Ofsted minimum levels of performance and therefore contributing to national and locally agreed targets.

About The Team You’ll Be Working In

Hounslow Adult and Community Education (known as Learn Hounslow) delivers the council’s Adult Education Budget allocation, which funds a range of learning opportunities to help adults develop their knowledge, skills and confidence so they can re-skill, up-skill, move into work, improve their prospects and support their families. We are currently seeking to increase our part-time sessional tutor panel, and invite suitably qualified and experienced tutors with a passion for their specialist subject and the ability to engage with adults in a positive manner to deliver and assess learning. On vocational courses at L2 and above this could involve assessing competence in the workplace depending on the needs of the team. Teaching and learning with HACE takes place both in our centres, as well as online in ‘live’ timetabled sessions.

About You

Ability to communicate clearly and appropriately with a range of people, from learners to senior managers, tutors and partners
Knowledge of the subject area
Excellent knowledge of and skills with educational digital technology
Excellent communication and organisational skills

Qualifications required for the role:

Subject Specialism and Teaching qualifications of at least Level 3 for all subjects; Teaching Qualification Level 5 is essential for ESOL, English and Maths
Qualifications in English and maths skills at Level 2 or equivalent
Experience relevant to teaching, learning and assessment

Read more about the work you’ll be doing in the Role Profile.

Don’t meet every single requirement? We know that sometimes people can be put off applying for a job if they think they can’t tick every box. At Hounslow, we realise the ‘perfect candidate’ doesn’t exist. So, if you can do most of what we’re looking for, go ahead and apply. You may be just the right candidate for the job or be perfect for one of our other roles!

To apply for the role, please complete the attached application form and return the completed Application form by email to paul.erese@hounslow.gov.uk

When Interviews Will Be Held And Who To Contact

The key information you need about the role should be in the Role Profile, but if you have any further questions about the role, please contact:

Email: Paul.Erese@hounslow.gov.uk

Telephone: 02085836000

Interviews for this job will be held on a mutually agreed date.