Vacancies

ESOL Early Years Practitioner Session Leader (Level 3)

Employment Opportunity

  • Contract Type:
    Permanent, Term-time only (39 weeks per year)
  • Hours:
    27 hours per week.
    Monday 9-14:30 Tuesday 9:30-14:30 Wednesday 9-14:30, 15:00-16:00 (online) Thursday 9:30-14:30 Friday 9:30-14:30 (Bedford)
  • Salary:
    £13 per hour + Holiday Pay
  • Location:
    Shefford, and Bedford Town Centre
  • Closing Date:
    21st May 2026 at 6pm
  • Interview Date(s):
    1st June 2026 in Shefford

Our ESOL service was established in 2017 and now runs 5 days per week and offers English lessons for resettled refugees and an English Club with an emphasis on learning skills for integration into UK society. We are a growing team of ESOL tutors and creche teams providing training to help refugees and their families to resettle in Bedford Borough and Central Bedfordshire.

About the role

The Early Years Session Lead holds responsibility for leading sessions in our trauma-informed Early Years setting. They do not hold line management responsibility for other practitioners however supervise a small team of L2 practitioners during the sessions.

The Early Years Session Lead is part of the EY Leadership Team, which meet together online on a Weds 15:00-16:00.

In addition the EY Session Lead works in our EY setting in Bedford on a Friday alongside the EY Session Lead (Bedford) and the Senior Early Years Practitioner who holds line management responsibility for the EY team.

We are open to discussing flexible working requests for the right candidate.

You can download a full job description above.

Next Step

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