Teacher of ESOL
Derby College, St James' Centre, Derby, DE23 8LU10 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
11 October 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
1 October 2026
Job details
Job role
- Teacher or lecturer
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Non-qualified teacher £30,549; qualified teacher £34,239 to £45,987 per annum
What skills and experience we're looking for
You’ll have experience of teaching ESOL to adults, alongside experience of ESOL curriculum planning and delivering ESOL within a community learning environment. You’ll be a confident and engaging teacher with excellent interpersonal, organisational and time-management skills, and a commitment to creating an inclusive learning environment. You’ll hold a recognised teaching qualification, a Level 5 subject specialism, and Level 2 Maths and English or equivalent. Most importantly, you’ll be passionate about helping adult students build confidence, achieve their goals and progress.
What the college offers its staff
- 35 days’ annual leave, plus 6 College closure days (where applicable) and 8 statutory bank holidays per year.
- Membership of the Teacher’s Pension Scheme with a 28.68% employer contribution
- Discount at our Ofsted rated ‘Outstanding’ onsite Little Explorers Nursery
- TOTUM discount card (aka NUS/Student Discount Card) / discounted Tastecard
- Discounts on East Midlands Railway Annual Season Tickets
- Microsoft Office for FREE with 1TB of OneDrive cloud storage
- Discount on treatments at SENSI our onsite salon at the Roundhouse
- Flint Bishop Solicitors – free will writing, 1-hour free consultation with family department, 10% discount on Conveyancing services
- Continuous development and progression opportunities
- Free eye tests with Specsavers
- Our new and enhanced Employee Assistance Programme provides 24/7 confidential support for wellbeing, mental health, and life matters
- Cycle to Work Scheme
Further information about the job
As a Teacher of ESOL, you’ll plan and deliver engaging, inclusive lessons that challenge and support students to make excellent progress from their individual starting points. You’ll develop schemes of learning, assess and monitor progress, provide meaningful feedback and maintain accurate student records and individual learning plans. Working collaboratively with colleagues, you’ll help ensure a high-quality and responsive learning experience that supports achievement and progression. This full-time role includes teaching two evenings each week to meet the needs of our adult students.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
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- Organisation type
- FE College, ages 16 to 99
- Education phase
- Sixth form or FE college
- Size
- No information available
- Age range
- 16 to 99
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- Website
- Derby College website
- Email address
- hrrecruitment@derby-college.ac.uk
- Phone number
- 0800 028 0289
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