Teacher Training Adviser

Job Location	Temple Cloud
Education	Not Mentioned
Salary	Competitive salary
Industry	Not Mentioned
Functional Area	Not Mentioned
Job Type	Permanent , full-time or part-time Work from home

Job Description

Education Recruitment AdvisorsStart date:TBCLocation:Home-based. Some travel required.Salary:Dependant on experience, circa £35,000Hours:Full-time 37.5 hours per week or part time would be considered.Training Duration:Initial 3 days intensive training followed by longer term on the job training & mentoringContract:Fixed term until 15 September 2024.OverviewWe have a temporary role as an Education Recruitment Adviser on the Teacher Training Adviser team. 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 moreable to secure places on teacher training courses.Much of the role has a focus on offering support to a cohort of candidates by phone, email and text while working from home. There is also a need for face-to-face support for candidates at events, e.g. at specialist teacher training recruitment events andat graduate recruitment fairs.The ideal candidate will have:

A successful teaching background, and must hold Qualified Teacher Status
Enthusiasm for a teaching young people in a school setting
Outstanding influencing and persuasion skills
An ability to build relationships with stakeholders and candidates

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 CriteriaSuccessful candidates must:

Be an experienced teacher in the compulsory educational setting, 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 CriteriaSuccessful candidates may have:

While we’re happy to take the best candidate from any part of the country, the ability to support candidates who are looking to train to become teachers in the West Midlands would be an advantage.
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

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