Educator for Bristol & Gloucestershire

Contract: Permanent, Term Time
Hours: 14 or 21 per week, 2/3 days ( 8am-4pm, plus travelling to schools), term time only (39 weeks)

About Coram

Coram is committed to improving the lives of the UK’s most vulnerable children and young people.

We support children and young people from birth to independence, creating a change that lasts a
lifetime.

Coram is the UK’s oldest children’s charity founded by Thomas Coram in London helping vulnerable
children and young people since 1739. Today, the Coram group helps more than one million
children, young people, families and professionals every year by providing access to the skills and
opportunities they need to thrive.

About Coram Life Education

Coram Life Education is a national charity that supports schools’ Wellbeing and PSHE education,
including Relationships and Sex Education. We use dynamic teaching strategies (including drama)
and resources within a framework of a fully developed whole-school approach to behaviour, safety
and achievement, which also includes a comprehensive online PSHE scheme of work called SCARF,
which supports schools’ wellbeing and PSHE education for primary-age children aged 3-11. Coram
Life Education requires an active, outgoing and enthusiastic person to manage this work, travelling
to schools throughout Gloucestershire and South Gloucestershire.

About the role

This is a permanent, part-time or full-time position during term time, with number of days
negotiable between Monday to Friday. You will have:

• primary-age teaching experience (as a Teacher, HLTA, or similar), knowledge and proven skills in Wellbeing and PSHE education
• the confidence and ability to work closely with teachers to ensure they fully embed our work within their wider provision
• the ability and willingness to travel to schools throughout the region at the times necessary, including early starts
• the ability and willingness to undertake induction training (10 weeks, full-time- negotiable) facilitated by Coram Life Education and ongoing periodic training outside own region
• an awareness of and commitment to equal opportunities principles and practice.

This is an active role involving gentle movement and carrying of equipment.

The successful candidate will be required to set-up and pack away the LifeSpace, which will involve
transporting 2 large bags with wheels weighing circa 18kg each

Starting date: Flexible start date, depending on the successful candidate’s notice period.

We recognise we are a predominantly white workforce and are genuinely committed to
encouraging candidates from diverse groups in order to improve the services to the children and
schools we support.

For further details about the application form and for queries specific to the role please see contact us via details to the right of this advert or click on Apply Now.

Coram is an equal opportunities employer and we believe a diverse workforce enables us to
improve the services to the children and families we help. We are genuinely committed to
encouraging candidates from all sections of the community we seek to support. This includes those
from global majority ethnic backgrounds, those that identify as LGBQT+, those with disabilities,
those with lived experience of care, those with neuro-diversity, and those from other groups who
are underrepresented at Coram.

If applicants feel comfortable, we would encourage them to draw on lived experience as well as
professional experience in their personal statement as part of their application.

We are committed to the safeguarding of children and where appropriate will require the
successful applicant to undertake a check from the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Registered Charity No. 312278.