Accounting Course Leader

City of Westminster Council -
Westminster

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Job details

Permanent
£37,881 - £48,559 a year

Qualifications

English
Bachelor's degree
IT
NVQ
Accounting
AAT

Full job description

About Us:

THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF MOHAMMED’S INSPIRATIONAL JOURNEY

As the educational arm of Westminster City Council, Westminster Adult Education Service (WAES) is a world of extraordinary stories. From ESOL, English, Maths and Digital to Accounting, Community Learning, Childcare and Teaching and Languages to the Creative Arts and Culture, WAES’s courses offer unparalleled opportunities to grow, develop and acquire new skills. People like Mohammed work to inspire our residents to achieve their goals and enrich their lives through a huge range of stimulating and transformative learning experiences.

When he was 16 Mohammed came to London from a small town in the south of France and dived straight into the world of work. Once he’d found his feet and established himself, he decided he wanted to do some volunteering work and give something back to the community that had supported him on his first steps in the big city, so he approached WAES. They offered him a couple of hours a week for a few months, and he enjoyed it so much that when a temporary job in HR became available, he applied for it and was successful.

Fast forward a few years, and Mohammed is now working as a Funding and Compliance Manager, full time in the Management Information System department, and using his experience to encourage and inspire a new generation of Westminster citizens. As a member of the Kurdish community, he knows how difficult it can be to develop the skills, learnings and confidence to establish yourself in a new environment and is committed to sharing the story of his amazing journey, using it to illustrate how WAES can be a catalyst for positive growth and change.

Mohammed sees potential in everyone he meets, and is dedicated to encouraging people to grasp the opportunities they’re offered with both hands. And WAES is at the heart of Westminster’s commitment to helping everyone in our diverse communities to achieve their potential and transform their lives.

To find out more about our work visit waes.ac.uk

The Role:

As an Accounting Course Leader with Westminster Adult Education Service (WAES) you can make your own powerful contribution to our communities. The service offers high quality learning, training and qualifications to people across our borough, and when you join us you’ll use the Mindful Education platform to deliver learning for Level 2 and 3 courses, monitor your students’ engagement and progress, and help to develop course files and the professional pathways curriculum. Providing timely and accurate course information for our self-assessment and development plans, you’ll also monitor enrolment, retention, attendance, punctuality and progression, and initiate any necessary interventions.

You’ll have a wide range of additional responsibilities - these include undertaking the diagnostic assessment of students, identifying individual needs and referring to support colleagues if required, and ensuring that all learners have appropriate individual study plans. We’ll also expect you to prepare course outlines, schemes of work and lesson plans, identify the materials and equipment you’ll need, teach tutorials, help to plan and schedule exams for Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT) courses, and produce assessments of each learner’s work.

But your work won’t stop there - you’ll ensure learners have participated in surveys that gauge their views, take part in the sharing of good practice with other tutors, undertake appropriate training and keep up to date with curriculum developments in your subject area. Committed to complying with all relevant Health & Safety regulations, we’ll also expect you to promote equal opportunities policies in the classroom, throughout the syllabus and in all your relationships with our organisation.

Please refer to the Job Description for more information.

About You:

To be a success in this exciting and empowering role you should have plenty of experience delivering AAT qualifications, knowledge of current AAT assessment processes and practice, the skills to teach in both online and one-to-one environments, and the ability to use Mindful Education or a similar platform to support delivery.

It’s important that you possess a strong working knowledge of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to support teaching, learning and assessment in an online and blended environment, and in addition to being a highly collaborative and motivated team worker, you’ll be a creative problem solver.

It goes without saying that you’ll be a superb written and verbal communicator, and when it comes to your own formal education you should have Maths and English GCSEs at Grade 4/C or above, and a recognised teaching qualification (PTLLS as a minimum). We’ll also expect you to hold the Level 4 Diploma for Accounting Technicians or NVQ/SVQ Level 4 in Accounting, or a Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies qualification.

You’ll be required to work 28.8 hours per week, and depending on the curriculum, hybrid opportunities may be available.

Westminster City Council is committed to supporting Care Leavers into the workplace. Care Leavers seeking their first job and who wish to be considered under our scheme, will automatically be invited to interview should they meet the essential criteria for the role.

The Council is committed to achieving diverse shortlists to support our desire to increase the number of staff from underrepresented groups in our workforce. We especially encourage applications from a Global Majority (GM), people who are Black, Asian, Brown, dual-heritage, indigenous to the global south, and or have been racialised as 'ethnic minorities' (formally known as B.A.M.E , Black, Asian and multiple ethnic) background and, while the role is open to all applicants, we will utilise the positive action provisions of the Equality Act 2010 to appoint a candidate from a global majority background where there is a choice between two candidates of equal merit. If you are from a Global Majority background you can self-declare this to the hiring manager as part of our positive action commitments.

What We Offer:

Westminster is an amazing place. We are home to more than 200,000 residents from all backgrounds, over 50,000 vibrant and vital businesses and three-quarters-of-a-million people work in Westminster. Westminster City Council’s strategy is to work towards a Fairer Westminster. A Fairer Westminster is one in which our communities are at the heart of our decision-making and help to determine the city’s future. By working directly with our communities and other partners, we can build a more inclusive city that celebrates our diverse communities, and where residents, workers and visitors from all backgrounds will feel welcome and safe.

At Westminster City Council, we pride ourselves on being an inclusive workplace and employer of choice. We encourage and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that, at all levels, represents the communities we serve. We champion equality, diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, has a sense of belonging and is empowered to be their best, that is the Westminster Way. To find out more about how we do this visit https://www.westminster.gov.uk/health-and-social-care/public-health-strategy-policies-and-reports/equality-duties

As a forward-thinking Council we appreciate that people work in different ways, therefore our staff benefit from working a range of flexible working patterns as well as Agile working.

The Council is a Disability Confident Employer. If you have declared a disability in your application, we guarantee an interview if you meet the essential criteria of the job. If you are invited for interview, you will be asked if you need any reasonable adjustments in order to attend, and we will make these wherever possible.

We reserve the right to extend or close this vacancy early without warning subject to the volume of suitable applicants.

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