Proposed Interview Date: Week Commencing 06 October 2025
Closing Date: Tuesday 30 September 2025
Contract Type: Temporary until July 2026
Salary: FC7 £32,437.03 - £40,358.57 (Pro-Rata)
Working Pattern: 9 hours per week,Monday to Friday, including evenings (to be agreed)
Location: Based in Kirkcaldy
As part of your application, you must provide us with a Supporting Statement which outlines to us how your skills and experience make you a good candidate for this vacancy. For more information, check out the How to Apply section of our Career Site. Without a Supporting Statement, your application will not be progressed. Please upload your Supporting Statement at the section marked ‘upload resumé’. Your Supporting Statement must not be a CV. More information is available on our Career site at www.fife.gov.uk/jobs/supportingstatement
The Communities & Neighbourhoods Service is committed to working alongside communities to improve life chances for people of all ages through learning, personal development and active citizenship programmes. Through our staff teams and volunteers, we will work to support communities to become stronger, more resilient and inclusive. Our approach to community development is rooted in our core values; Self-determination, inclusion, empowerment, Working collaboratively and promotion of learning as a lifelong activity. Our values reflect the ethos, culture and practice principals of all staff across the service. We strive to ensure that our attitudes and behaviour reflect these core values in all our dealings with people, their families and the wider community in partnership with those who support them.
You will be part of the ESOL team where you will concentrate your time working with learners who have settled in Fife. You will work with adult ESOL learners who are participating in basic level learning programmes within a group context by employing learning strategies to enable them to improve their English language skills. You will plan, deliver and assess learning needs and abilities of individuals using a range of strategies to overcome barriers presented by their English language difficulties and agree an appropriate learning plan with learners. You will manage learning appropriate to the different individual needs and aspirations of learners in the context of a group setting. Identifying causal factors in difficulties in acquisition of English language capabilities and addressing these factors with the learner through a tailored personal learning plan is part of the role, as is developing, preparing and managing learning materials, activities and environments to ensure the delivery of a high quality and appropriate level of learning programme.
Must be educated to SCQF level 8, which includes HND or SVQ level 4 or equivalent in a related subject. ESOL qualified to CELTA or equivalent level.
You must have good time management, organisational skills and communication and experience of working effectively with minimum supervision. You must be flexible and adaptable in approach with experience of establishing and maintaining good working relationships with adult learners, colleagues and partner organisations.
IT skills and experience of online delivery are essential. You must have the ability to travel between venues and work some evenings, according to service needs. You will be committed to the ethos of ESOL.
For Further Information Contact: Christine Blair-Murray – [email protected]
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