Casual Multilingual Education Assistant - Bengali, Czech, Igbo, Nepali, Pashto, Slovak, Sorani Kurdish

What is the job role?

The Ethnic Minority Achievement Service maintains a casual register of people with good language skills to work as bilingual education assistants in nurseries, primary schools and secondary schools across Coventry and the surrounding area, as well as with other Coventry City Council Departments. You will primarily be supporting newly arrived children to settle into school and begin to learn English.

This is a casual post. We anticipate there being a need for the languages listed, however, we cannot make any guarantee that work will be available.

Interviews are provisionally booked to take place on 12 July and/or 19 July , and will be conducted, in-person interviews in a City Council building in Coventry.

This post is exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and as such appointment to this post will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

Who are we looking for?

You will need:

To be fluent and literate in one or more of the languages listed below

To have a good command of written and spoken English

To be willing to work in nurseries, primary schools, secondary schools across the city and attend ad hoc meetings

To be available for at least 4 mornings or 4 afternoons a week, or a mixture of both during normal school opening times

To be able to travel to schools and other education providers across the city

We currently need people who can communicate verbally and in writing in one or more of the following languages:

Bengali, Czech, Igbo, Nepali, Pashto, Slovak, Sorani Kurdish

Please list any other languages spoken in the personal statement section on your application form.

If you need help or support to complete your application, please visit our to see how we can assist you.

Guaranteed Interview Scheme - As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you'll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role and identify with one of the below criteria:

Members of the Armed Forces and veterans

Are currently in care or have previously been in care

If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long-term health condition

For full details on the application process please read the attached document on our jobs page labelled 'Coventry City Council Application Process'. If there is any evidence of a candidate using AI to complete their application, then the application will be rejected unless the candidate can provide a justification which the Council considers to be reasonable.

Interview date(s): 12 July and/or 19 July

About Coventry

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We are cutting-edge, challenging, youthful, vibrant and diverse.

At Coventry we are committed to excellence in everything we do. With around staff from a range of different backgrounds, our aim is to recruit and develop talented people who will focus on our customers, take responsibility, work together and find better ways of doing things.

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