Adult Tutor Counselling

Are you passionate about supporting residents of Leicester to develop skills and qualifications to achieve their potential?
Leicester Adult Education College offers a large and diverse programme of further education qualification courses as well as extensive community-based provision. We have a diverse, enthusiastic student community, taught, and supported by well qualified staff.

We are currently looking to appoint a suitably qualified and experienced tutor to deliver Counselling qualifications from Level 2 to Level 4. Ideally a practitioner, you should have experience of teaching to at least Level 2, but experience of teaching to a higher level would be beneficial.
This is a fantastic opportunity for suitably qualified, dedicated, and skilled adult tutors to join our successful team. As an inspirational and motivated adult tutor you'll provide a high-quality learning experience that promotes achievement and learner progression.
You'll be able to travel to a variety of settings and schools across the city and work outside of normal office hours to provide learning opportunities to a broad range of groups.
What you'll be doing
As an experienced tutor, you'll prepare and deliver face-to-face and on-line courses to adult learners, ensuring that learning is properly structured, reflects current good practice and that assessment is robust to meet the demands of quality assurance. You'll evaluate and provide continuous improvement to your teaching practice and have in place strategies that ensure maximum attendance, retention, and achievement. You'll select appropriate resources, as well as use teaching methods and styles which promote active learning, to ensure that learners achieve their full potential in their learning journey.
What you'll need
You'll have excellent communication, interpersonal and administrative skills. Using your expertise and creativity, you'll be able to identify individual learning needs to design and plan lessons, accordingly, ensuring successful outcomes for learners are achieved. You'll have the necessary knowledge and proficient IT skills to use relevant software packages and ILT to teach both in the classroom and on-line.
In addition, you will have the required qualifications which include: a teaching qualification at Level 4; an English qualification at minimum GCSE or equivalent; maths and IT qualifications at Level 2 or a commitment to work towards this. You will also need to be qualified to a minimum Level 4 in Counselling.
If you are an enthusiastic, highly motivated professional and want to provide a quality learning experience to our adult learners, then we would love to hear from you.
Appointment is subject to an Enhanced DBS check.

As well as the satisfaction of helping to improve thousands of lives across Leicester, you can look forward to a work environment that encourages a healthy work/life balance. We'll also give you the chance to develop your skills and expertise with a variety of training and development opportunities. In addition, you can choose from several flexible benefits, including discounts on city buses and trains. For an illustrative value of your benefits package, take a look at our benefits calculator.
Join us
We're committed to recruiting a diverse and highly-talented workforce as we continue to build a council that is fitting and representative of our great city. That's why we've designed our recruitment process to put you at your ease, make you feel welcome and bring the best out of you. We'll do all we can to make our recruitment process as fair as possible. To help you with your application, take a look at the 'our approach to recruitment' page.
For a chat about this post, please feel free to contact Jez Stretton on or email
Assessment/interviews will take place on Monday 11th November 2024