1-1 Esol Teacher
Description
We are looking for teachers with a recognised ESOL qualification (CELTA or equivalent) to support clients on a 1:1 basis with speaking, reading and writing English for an hour or so each week. We would like you to meet a client for 1 – 2 hours each week, this can be at the Centre or in a public place such as a café or library or where possible on-line. You will provide them with individual support with their English.
Your responsibilities:
• Be able to commit at least one hour a week to your client for up to six months.
• Create an agreed Individual Learning Plan.
• Meet with your client at an agreed time and place (or online)
• Be able to encourage and motivate your client.
• Be able to plan an hour’s English session based on the client’s ability and need.
• Send a short progress report to the Learning & Employment Manager after every meeting with your client.
• Participate in the Centre induction and safeguarding training.
• Attend quarterly group meetings, at the Centre, with other ESOL Volunteers at an agreed time. Our clients are refugees, migrants and asylum seekers who are unable to afford or access English classes at colleges. We have many clients at the Centre who need one-to-one support with their English, mostly around listening and speaking, fluency and confidence building. We can also offer additional sessions to clients who are accessing external ESOL classes who feel they need additional 1:1 support.
The impact you'll have
This support provided by volunteers to our clients really helps them progress with their English. Often clients do not have opportunities to learn English outside of the classroom or interact with a English speaking person, so this opportunity is invaluable to them. Improving our clients English also enables individuals to access our other services such as, the employment team and digital inclusion, which will in turn, improve their employment prospects and assist in integration in their local community.
The skills you'll need
You will need to have the following skills in order to participate:
• You have a recognised ESOL qualification e.g. Cambridge (CELTA) or Trinity (CertTESOL) • You have excellent listening and clear communication skills. • You are able to encourage and motivate a person. • You are friendly, patient and reliable. • You will have the ability to get on with people from a wide range of backgrounds
Directions - public transport
Closest tube stations: Pimlico, Victoria & St James's Park. Buses stop on Horseferry Road
Location
3-7 Arneway Street, SW1P 2BG
When
Schedule
Flexible times
Commitment
Ongoing
You will need
Minimum age: 21
Getting here
3-7 Arneway Street, SW1P 2BG
CARDINAL HUME CENTRE
Families, children and young people
The Cardinal Hume Centre is a non-profit organisation based in Westminster London. For more than 35 years we have helped families, children and young people to overcome poverty and avoid homelessness. We enable people to gain the skills they need to break out of poverty and build better lives. The Centre prides itself on its welcome and person-centred approach - we believe each person matters. We have six principal services: residential services for homeless young people; family support; housing and welfare rights advice; employment support; learning; and immigration advice.
Thank you for taking the time to find out more about us and for considering the Centre as a place to do your volunteering.
Our team of 65 staff are supported by more than 40 regular volunteers who work in different roles across the Centre and play an integral part in all that we do. You too can be a part of our team, helping individuals and families gain skills, overcome poverty and the threat of homelessness.
We have a fantastic building in South Westminster, close to Victoria, Pimlico & St James Park tube stations.
We ensure our volunteer roles are meaningful and rewarding and volunteers are supported and valued by our Volunteer Coordinator and a named supervisor.
We are one Centre, working towards a shared vision. Our values and behaviours describe how we want to work with everyone within our team, with organisations who share our aims and most importantly with the people who use our services or make their home with us.
Our Values are: Value each person; Welcome and include; Encourage potential; Work together; Learn reflect and improve.
'Each person matters; no human life is redundant. Every individual must be given the opportunity to live a life in which his or her basic needs are provided for and in which, so far as it is reasonably possible, their full potential is realised' Basil Hume 1923 - 1999