Job Description

Job Category: Non-Teaching
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Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: Enderby Adult Learning Centre, Townsend Road, Enderby, Leicestershire LE19 4PG.
Worker Category: Hybrid Worker
Salary: Sessional tutors are paid at an hourly rate of 35.76 with annual increments to the top of Grade 8 (38.79/hr) - hourly rate includes admin and CPD.
Working Hours: Courses are termly and are either 10 or 12 weeks long; 2 hrs per week for each course, daytime and evenings. 8 courses are planned plus 2 one-day courses (5 hrs). Courses start on 4 January 2026.
Contract Type: Fixed term to 31/8/26
Closing Date: 28/11/25
Interview Date(s): To be confirmed.
Is pottery your passion? Do you want to share your passion with others?
Are you looking for a rewarding career where you can use your pottery skills to positively impact on the wellbeing of adults in Leicestershire?
About the Role
The Learning for Wellbeing Curriculum at GoLearn! (Leicestershire Adult Learning Service) offers a broad range of arts, crafts, dance, fitness and specialist subject courses for adults. We are seeking an experienced and skilled pottery tutor to deliver courses starting in January 2026. You will need to have experience of teaching/working with adults from a variety of backgrounds and life experience, some with more complex needs. You will need to be confident in course design, production and planning of Schemes of Work and Lesson Plans, recording learning outcomes and using a range of methods for formative assessment. All courses are non accredited and therefore, follow the RARPA (Recognising and Recording Progress and Achievement) process requiring tutors and learners to negotiate and complete Individual Learning Plans (ILPs).
You will need to have experience of, or be confident in your ability to teach pottery at different levels - we offer beginner, intermediate and independent learners level courses. You will also have full use of a kiln at the venue and be responsible for using this efficiently and safely, firing work in a timely manner for learners. You will also be responsible for monitoring resource use, keeping to budget and ordering resources in time for courses starting.
As part of your role you will undertake mandatory training including attendance at 2 CPD events and one celebratory event during the academic year, which run on Saturday mornings. The curriculum also provides termly tutor team meetings.
An enhanced DBS check is required for this post.
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About You
To apply for this post, you must have:

• A Level 3 generic teaching qualification
• A qualification in your subject specialism that is equivalent to Level 3
• Recent experience of teaching adults from different backgrounds and cultures.
• Good IT skills and experience of using different digital systems e.g MSTeams, ProSolution, Microsoft Outlook
• Good communication and team working skills
• Some understanding/experience of supporting learners who are neurodiverse e.g. autism, dyslexia, mental health difficulties
• A current driving licence

You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion.
In addition, we also expect you to share and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.
Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.
Interested in Flexible Working?
We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.
Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the page on our career site.
For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:
Linda Dixon, Programme Manager, Learning for Wellbeing
Telephone: 0116 3050564/07508012611
Email:
How to Apply
Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality, diversity and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ+ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.
To apply for this job, please click on the apply button. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above. For more information, see the section on our career site.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post or you want to request an application pack in an alternative format, please contact our Employee Service Centre by telephoning 0300 3030222 (select option 2) or raising a ticket via our online portal: .
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About Us:
About Leicestershire County Council
Leicestershire County Council is a and organisation. In August 2021, we also signed up to the . We are strongly committed to promoting equality and opportunity, championing employee wellbeing and investing in staff training and development.
Our aim is to work with communities and partners to deliver public services that make Leicestershire the best possible place to live and work for everyone. Our employees play a key role in supporting this goal and helping us deliver the vital services we provide to the people of Leicestershire.
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