Programme Tutor- ESOL

Join Our Expanding, Award-Winning ESOL Team – Build Your Career with Us!

Are you looking for an exciting career opportunity where you can grow, inspire others, and make a difference? Oldham College’s ESOL team, recognised as Team of the Year, is expanding, and we’re seeking enthusiastic, ambitious individuals to join our thriving department.

Why Choose Us?

• Young and ambitious? Start or grow your teaching career with extensive on-the-job support from experienced tutors.
• Interested in becoming qualified? We welcome candidates keen to gain their PGDE while working, with a generous contribution towards course fees at University Campus Oldham (UCO).
• Career development opportunities tailored to help you progress academically and professionally.
• A workplace that values staff wellbeing, offering initiatives to support your professional and personal growth.
• Staff benefits include a competitive pension scheme, free parking, discounted gym membership, and access to employee assistance programmes.

About the Role

As part of our expanding team, you will:

• Inspire learners by developing innovative, engaging, and relevant teaching materials.
• Set ambitious targets to support learners in achieving their goals.
• Deliver a flexible and supportive curriculum that meets the diverse needs of our learners.
• Access structured mentoring and guidance from established tutors to help you succeed in your role.
• Be part of a vibrant, award-winning team that is committed to making a positive difference.

What We’re Looking For

We’re looking for someone who is:

• Flexible, adapting to the needs of learners and the team.
• Ambitious, eager to develop their career while making a meaningful impact.
• Innovative, with fresh ideas to enhance teaching and learning.
• Fun and energetic, bringing positivity and enthusiasm to the role.
• Either qualified or willing to train, with a passion for teaching and learning.

Why Now?

This is an exciting time to join our expanding ESOL team, which continues to set the standard for excellence in teaching and learning. Whether you’re just starting your career or looking to take the next step, we’ll provide you with the support, training, and opportunities to thrive.

Ready to Apply?

If you’re ready to inspire, innovate, and grow with an award-winning team, we’d love to hear from you!

Apply now and shape your future with Oldham College!

Joining our Journey:

When you join our college, not only will you benefit from an annual reviewed salary but have access to numerous benefits and facilities: 

• Generous Pension Scheme 
• Fantastic Staff Benefits and Rewards platform
• Very generous holiday entitlement
• Employee Assistance Scheme
• Enhanced Maternity/Paternity provision
• Staff Development days/week (Jan, July, Aug)
• Free confidential counselling service
• Staff recognition awards
• Car Scheme
• Subsidised car parking
• On-site Day Nursery
• On-site hair and beauty salon

Oldham College is a great career choice for ambitious professionals. With a “good” Ofsted rating, one of the best apprenticeship programmes in the region, excellent 16-18 results and truly outstanding GCSE English results, we are already a high performer.

But we want to deliver much more than this. Our ambition is to be “The Best Place to Learn and Work” and we have a clear Strategic Plan which sets out what this means and what we will do to deliver it. We will keep on improving and innovating, and we are investing in new provision, new facilities, and new technology; including our state-of-the-art clinical simulation suite.

We expect a lot from you, so we want ambitious, open minded candidates, who are ready to give their best. But we give a lot in return, from training to pensions, our own benefits package, and one of the best and most helpful group of colleagues you could ever wish to meet.  

The role will require you to embed and work to the college’s values; working with Integrity, having Ambition to help our learners succeed and being Inclusive to learners and colleagues alike.

At Oldham College, our mission is to welcome everyone and create inclusive teams. We encourage everyone to join us, as we create a workforce that is as diverse as our wonderful student community. We do monitor responses to our diversity questions in our application, to ensure that we can continue to build a workforce that is representative of the community that we serve.

We understand that not everyone works to the same timetable, and offer a range of flexible working options, including flexible start and finish times, part-time, term-time only or hybrid options, where the role permits.

We will do everything we can to support you during your application. If you need us to make any adjustments to our recruitment process, contact our HR team who will be happy to advise.

If your application is successful, your personal data may be used for a pre-employment screening check by a third party as permitted by applicable law. Depending on the vacancy and applicable laws, a pre-employment screening could include, employment history, education and other information (such as media information) that may be necessary for determining your qualifications and suitability for the role.

Oldham College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment.

Any appointments will be subject to enhanced DBS checks and a check of the DfE Barred List.

Further details including a Person Specification are included within the attached Job Description.

This role is exempt from the Rehabilitation Act 1974. It is an offence to apply for the role if the applicant is barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children and vulnerable adults.