Adult Learning Support Assistant - ESOL

Leicestershire County Council; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 26,000; Full time

Job summary

A local government council in the East Midlands seeks a Learning Support Assistant for the ESOL Curriculum. The role involves supporting diverse learners in various locations, facilitating language skill development, and collaborating with course tutors. Candidates must have a minimum Level 2 qualification in English and maths, alongside relevant experience. This position offers flexible working arrangements to suit personal circumstances.

Qualifications

• Experience in supporting learning in an educational environment.
• Ability to work under direction and on own initiative.
• Knowledge of safeguarding principles.

Responsibilities

• Support learners in achieving their learning outcomes.
• Assist diverse groups in a vibrant learning environment.
• Aid with understanding maths problems, reading, and writing.

Skills

Good level of English

Good level of maths

Effective communication skills

Interpersonal skills

Basic digital skills

Education

Level 2 or above qualification in English and maths

Job description

Organisation: Leicestershire County Council

Work Location: Main location Hinckley Library & Coalville Library & any other locality as required

Worker Category: Fixed Location Worker

Salary: £25,191 - £25,590 per annum - pro rata for part time

Working Hours: 11.4 per week

Contract Type: Permanent

Closing Date: 31st January 2026

Interview Date(s): TBC

Learning Support Assistant - ESOL

This vacancy is an opportunity to work for the ESOL Curriculum as a ESOL Learning Support Assistant.

This is an opportunity for appropriately qualified and skilled candidates to join the enthusiastic, committed, and experienced Leicestershire County Council, Adult Learning Service, ESOL team. We deliver high quality, accredited and non-accredited ESOL programmes to ESOL Learners from a range of cultural backgrounds across Leicestershire County in the morning, afternoon, and evening.

The curriculum team provides learning opportunities to help learners to be able to live in and contribute to a community and to find appropriate employment and enabling them to take a greater part in life in the UK.

Are you looking for a rewarding career where you can make a difference?

Do you want a job where no two days are the same?

About the Role

This role will be supporting the whole curriculum working alongside specific course tutors in delivery and development of language skills.

As a Learning Support Assistant, you will be working under the guidance of the curriculum coordinator and course tutors to support learners to achieve their learning outcomes. The successful candidate will be working with diverse groups of learners in a vibrant and engaging learning environment. The support could include assisting someone physically, helping with understanding maths problems, reading, organisation, writing or keeping focus.

Adult Learning courses are delivered in a variety of venues around Leicestershire and the successful candidate(s) may be required to work in more than one location.

An enhanced DBS check is required for this post.

We also expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.

About You

To apply for this post, you must:

• Have a good level of English and maths (i.e., Level 2 or above qualification in both)
• Have some experience (voluntary or paid) in supporting learning in an educational environment or similar
• Basic digital skills including use of emails and web pages
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work under direction and on own initiative
• Understanding of the principles of safeguarding

You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion.

In addition, we also expect you to share our commitment to our values 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 Our Working Styles page on our career site.

For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:

Ruby Chowdhury, Programme Manager

Telephone: [phone]

Email Address

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 How to Apply 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: https://emss.org.uk/support.

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