Schools Character Education Instructor

School Character Education Instructor

Full time 1 academic year contract (September 2023 -end of July 2024)

Salary-£20,000- £23,000 PA

09:00-15:30 Mon- Fri (32.5 hours)

Start date: 4/9/2023

Covering Anglesey & Gwynedd

Character Education & Life Skills is a local; Anglesey based business that champions resilience, confidence and good character as fundamental to the education, wellbeing and future success of young people. An exciting opportunity has become available for an instructor to join the team. This position would be well suited to an individual looking to advance their career in education whilst changing the lives of local young people. As an instructor, you will deliver weekly sessions independently to schools across the island and into Gwynedd. You will work closely with team members to follow a researched, tried and tested programme that will run throughout the academic year. You will also be responsible for organising and delivering community based sessions and continuing to develop links with local clubs, agencies and organisations.

Responsibilities

 Delivering character education sessions to classes of up to 30 pupils

 Forming excellent relationships with partner schools, staff and pupils

 Providing key character feedback through relating it to real life situations

 Evaluating performance and providing suitable feedback, balancing criticism with positivity and motivation

 Assessing strengths and weaknesses in a participant's performance and identifying areas for further development

 Adapting to the needs and interests of group or individual participants

 Communicating instructions and commands using clear, simple language

 Demonstrating an activity by breaking the task down into a sequence

 Encouraging participants to gain and develop skills, knowledge and techniques

 Ensuring that participants train and perform to a high standard of health and safety at all times

 Inspiring confidence and self-belief

 Working with IT-based resources to monitor and measure performance

 Acting as a role model, gaining the respect and trust of the people you work with

 Working to an excellent legal and ethical standard at all times, particularly in relation to issues such as child safeguarding and health and safety requirements.

 Generating a daily report for schools head teacher at the end of each day  Promote the good work we do through online and in person promotion

 Accurately deal with numbers, surveys and reports Essential Skills

 The ability to quickly develop successful working relationships with people from different backgrounds and with varying levels of engagement and ability

 Be confident in teaching full classes of year 3-6

 Being able to adapt to work with foundation phase and secondary school pupils when needed

 A desire to help other people succeed

 Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

 Team building ability  Enthusiasm, flexibility and patience

 Awareness of equality and diversity issues, including those related to sport and disability

 Motivational skills

 Organisational skills

 Excellent time management skills

 A strong interest in maintaining professional skills and knowledge

 The ability to work to deadlines Requirements

Essential

-A levels or equivalent

-Ability to speak, deliver lessons and write in Welsh fluently -Experience of working within a school environment

-Excellent communication skills

-Excellent interpersonal skills

-Be an organised, hardworking individual that genuinely cares about the change in young - people

-Possess good Microsoft Office skills- Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and Publisher

-Have confidence in posting on social media

-Enjoy working outdoors throughout the year

-Full UK driving licence with own transport

-Able to achieve an enhanced DBS

Desirable

-PGCE qualification -Degree level qualification -Coaching qualifications -Mentoring qualifications -Safeguarding qualifications -First aid trained -Forest School Leader -Bushcraft Qualification -Outdoor Education qualifications (NICAS, Hill & Mooreland, Mountain Leader)

Benefits

CELS offer a rewarding job with strong links to schools on Anglesey and Gwynedd. The company adopt a relaxed approach to working within the school week. On top of this, the feeling of developing young people and setting them up to fulfil their potential usually makes it a joy to go to work!

25 days holiday (to be taken outside of term time)

Level 2 and Level 3 apprenticeship available in leading activities and developing team projects (for applicants under the age of 25)

Full branded uniform provided

Company laptop & Company phone

Pension scheme

Flexible working hours (outside of structured school sessions)

Working somewhere different each day

The post will begin in September for the full academic year with the possibility of running sessions within the community outside of term time. 1 academic year contract but with full opportunity to continue to a permanent position with retention of their schools. To apply for the above post, please sent a CV and covering letter to dylanjonescels@hotmail.com All applications need to be submitted before noon 30/6/23.

Job Types: Full-time, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 11 months

Salary: £20,000.00-£23,000.00 per year

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Education:

• A-Level or equivalent (preferred)

Experience:

• Working in a school: 1 year (preferred)

Language:

• Welsh fluently (required)

Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 30/06/2023
Reference ID: Schools Instructor
Expected start date: 04/09/2023