Advisory Teacher (EAL)

Job responsibilities

Temporary/Fixed term:18 months (from start date)

Interview date:To be confirmed following shortlisting

Education and Skills - Building Bright Futures

Are you an experienced and dedicated teacher with a passion for fostering inclusive practices? Do you have a track record of securing successful outcomes for learners of English as an additional language (EAL) and in supporting and developing the practice of others? Join our dynamic Ethnic Minority and Traveller Achievement team!

We are seeking a teacher to support Wiltshire schools to welcome and make effective provision for refugees from Afghanistan. The successful candidate will work cross-phase, supporting the capacity and developing the provision of a group of schools across the county to meet these learners needs. The job will be varied, stimulating and rewarding its a role that will be different every day.

The work might include assessment and observation of pupils and students; provision of advice and professional development to colleagues; team and demonstration teaching to model good EAL inclusive practice; working with middle and senior leaders to monitor achievement; and leading interventions with the students and pupils themselves. Youll visit the same schools regularly, spending the bulk of your time there, and will soon become a familiar face and trusted source of advice and support for colleagues in each. Youll be a problem-solver, able to adapt your practice to implement whatever works in the context of individual schools.

You will be joining a dynamic and thriving Ethnic Minority and Traveller Achievement team which includes EAL-specialist advisory teachers who will be available to support your practice and peripatetic Bilingual Assistants, including colleagues with knowledge of Afghan languages and cultures.

Qualifications

Essential

• Qualified Teacher
• Status
• Familiarity with the
• National Curriculum for
• at least two key stages
• Good understanding of
• the language
• development and
• pedagogy of pupils with
• EAL OR good
• knowledge of best
• practice for the
• inclusion of children of
• Traveller heritages.
• Good knowledge and
• understanding of
• equalities issues
• Up-to-date knowledge
• of relevant legislation
• and guidance in relation
• to working with, and the
• protection of, children
• and young people
• Minimum of two years
• successful teaching
• experience in UK
• school
• Experience of
• successful teaching of
• pupils who are learning
• EAL and/or pupils of
• Traveller heritages
• Ability to manage time
• to meet competing
• priorities
• Excellent oral and
• written communication skills
• A willingness and ability
• to deliver training for
• school staff
• ICT skills
• Ability to relate well to
• minority ethnic pupils
• and their parents
• Ability to work
• independently
• Sensitivity and tact, e.g.
• for working
• collaboratively with
• mainstream staff
• A strong commitment to
• the promotion of
• equality

Desirable

• Knowledge and
• understanding of the
• customs, religious
• requirements, linguistic
• and cultural
• backgrounds of
• Wiltshires minority
• ethnic groups
• Qualification gained or
• professional
• development
• undertaken in the field
• of EAL
• Multilingualism
• Lived experience

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).