107 Education jobs in Wigan

Education Recruitment Advisors

Start date:  October 2025

Location:  Home-based. Some travel required.

Salary:  Dependant on experience, circa £35,000

Hours:  Full-time 37.5 hours per week.

Training Duration:  Initial 3 days intensive training followed by longer term on the job training & mentoring

Contract:  Fixed term until 31 March 2027.

Overview

We have a temporary role as an Education Recruitment Adviser on the Teacher Training Adviser team. Our advisers work on our contract with DfE and are successful in encouraging people to consider teaching as a career and in supporting them to become more able to secure places on teacher training courses.

Much of the role has a focus on offering support to a cohort of candidates by phone, email and text while working from home. There is also a need for face-to-face support for candidates at events, e.g. at specialist teacher training recruitment events and at graduate recruitment fairs.

The ideal candidate will have:

• A successful teaching background, having taught in England and must hold Qualified Teacher Status
• Enthusiasm for a teaching young people in a school setting
• Outstanding influencing and persuasion skills
• An ability to build relationships with stakeholders and candidates

The Role

• Provide one-to-one support to up to 200 individual candidates at any time to retain and encourage an initial interest in teaching. Help them to decide on a teaching career, and take the most appropriate steps towards this
• Host and support events for candidates to foster and grow commitment to a teaching career
• Help candidates to improve their readiness to apply for teacher training, e.g. by supporting them to gain school experience
• Facilitate discussions in an online community, to encourage teacher training course applications
• Share insight with candidates on what teaching is really like, helping candidates to explore their concerns, such as those relating to classroom behaviour and setting realistic expectations on what schools require of trainees, NQTs, teachers and leaders

Essential Criteria

Successful candidates must:

• Be an experienced teacher in the compulsory educational setting in England, and have Qualified Teacher Status (QTS)
• Be sufficiently IT literate to successfully work from home using Outlook, MS Teams, and databases
• Be willing to travel within England, with, on occasion, the need for potential overnight stays.

Desirable Criteria

Successful candidates may have:

• Strong evidence of resilience, emotional intelligence and commitment to peers and candidates
• A working knowledge and experience of contemporary teacher training courses, or the early career framework
• Experience in coaching or mentoring adults
• Have proven ability to be adaptive to frequent change, e.g. in the policy direction of the work or emphasis on different areas of support
• Able to identify improvements in working processes

Job Types: Full-time, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 17 months initially

Salary: Circa £35,000.00 per year

Education:

• Bachelor's (required)
• Qualified Teacher Status (QTS)

Experience:

• Teaching: 1 year (required)

Licence/Certification:

• Teaching Qualification (QTS)

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: On the road

Education Recruitment Advisors

Start date:  October 2025

Location:  Home-based. Some travel required.

Salary:  Dependant on experience, circa £35,000

Hours:  Full-time 37.5 hours per week.

Training Duration:  Initial 3 days intensive training followed by longer term on the job training & mentoring

Contract:  Fixed term until 31 March 2027.

Overview

We have a temporary role as an Education Recruitment Adviser on the Teacher Training Adviser team. Our advisers work on our contract with DfE and are successful in encouraging people to consider teaching as a career and in supporting them to become more able to secure places on teacher training courses.

Much of the role has a focus on offering support to a cohort of candidates by phone, email and text while working from home. There is also a need for face-to-face support for candidates at events, e.g. at specialist teacher training recruitment events and at graduate recruitment fairs.

The ideal candidate will have:

• A successful teaching background, having taught in England and must hold Qualified Teacher Status
• Enthusiasm for a teaching young people in a school setting
• Outstanding influencing and persuasion skills
• An ability to build relationships with stakeholders and candidates

The Role

• Provide one-to-one support to up to 200 individual candidates at any time to retain and encourage an initial interest in teaching. Help them to decide on a teaching career, and take the most appropriate steps towards this
• Host and support events for candidates to foster and grow commitment to a teaching career
• Help candidates to improve their readiness to apply for teacher training, e.g. by supporting them to gain school experience
• Facilitate discussions in an online community, to encourage teacher training course applications
• Share insight with candidates on what teaching is really like, helping candidates to explore their concerns, such as those relating to classroom behaviour and setting realistic expectations on what schools require of trainees, NQTs, teachers and leaders

Essential Criteria

Successful candidates must:

• Be an experienced teacher in the compulsory educational setting in England, and have Qualified Teacher Status (QTS)
• Be sufficiently IT literate to successfully work from home using Outlook, MS Teams, and databases
• Be willing to travel within England, with, on occasion, the need for potential overnight stays.

Desirable Criteria

Successful candidates may have:

• Strong evidence of resilience, emotional intelligence and commitment to peers and candidates
• A working knowledge and experience of contemporary teacher training courses, or the early career framework
• Experience in coaching or mentoring adults
• Have proven ability to be adaptive to frequent change, e.g. in the policy direction of the work or emphasis on different areas of support
• Able to identify improvements in working processes

Job Types: Full-time, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 17 months initially

Salary: Circa £35,000.00 per year

Education:

• Bachelor's (required)
• Qualified Teacher Status (QTS)

Experience:

• Teaching: 1 year (required)

Licence/Certification:

• Teaching Qualification (QTS)

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: On the road

Education Recruitment Advisors

Start date:  October 2025

Location:  Home-based. Some travel required.

Salary:  Dependant on experience, circa £35,000

Hours:  Full-time 37.5 hours per week.

Training Duration:  Initial 3 days intensive training followed by longer term on the job training & mentoring

Contract:  Fixed term until 31 March 2027.

Overview

We have a temporary role as an Education Recruitment Adviser on the Teacher Training Adviser team. Our advisers work on our contract with DfE and are successful in encouraging people to consider teaching as a career and in supporting them to become more able to secure places on teacher training courses.

Much of the role has a focus on offering support to a cohort of candidates by phone, email and text while working from home. There is also a need for face-to-face support for candidates at events, e.g. at specialist teacher training recruitment events and at graduate recruitment fairs.

The ideal candidate will have:

• A successful teaching background, having taught in England and must hold Qualified Teacher Status
• Enthusiasm for a teaching young people in a school setting
• Outstanding influencing and persuasion skills
• An ability to build relationships with stakeholders and candidates

The Role

• Provide one-to-one support to up to 200 individual candidates at any time to retain and encourage an initial interest in teaching. Help them to decide on a teaching career, and take the most appropriate steps towards this
• Host and support events for candidates to foster and grow commitment to a teaching career
• Help candidates to improve their readiness to apply for teacher training, e.g. by supporting them to gain school experience
• Facilitate discussions in an online community, to encourage teacher training course applications
• Share insight with candidates on what teaching is really like, helping candidates to explore their concerns, such as those relating to classroom behaviour and setting realistic expectations on what schools require of trainees, NQTs, teachers and leaders

Essential Criteria

Successful candidates must:

• Be an experienced teacher in the compulsory educational setting in England, and have Qualified Teacher Status (QTS)
• Be sufficiently IT literate to successfully work from home using Outlook, MS Teams, and databases
• Be willing to travel within England, with, on occasion, the need for potential overnight stays.

Desirable Criteria

Successful candidates may have:

• Strong evidence of resilience, emotional intelligence and commitment to peers and candidates
• A working knowledge and experience of contemporary teacher training courses, or the early career framework
• Experience in coaching or mentoring adults
• Have proven ability to be adaptive to frequent change, e.g. in the policy direction of the work or emphasis on different areas of support
• Able to identify improvements in working processes

Job Types: Full-time, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 17 months initially

Salary: Circa £35,000.00 per year

Education:

• Bachelor's (required)
• Qualified Teacher Status (QTS)

Experience:

• Teaching: 1 year (required)

Licence/Certification:

• Teaching Qualification (QTS)

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: On the road

Education Recruitment Advisors

Start date:  October 2025

Location:  Home-based. Some travel required.

Salary:  Dependant on experience, circa £35,000

Hours:  Full-time 37.5 hours per week.

Training Duration:  Initial 3 days intensive training followed by longer term on the job training & mentoring

Contract:  Fixed term until 31 March 2027.

Overview

We have a temporary role as an Education Recruitment Adviser on the Teacher Training Adviser team. Our advisers work on our contract with DfE and are successful in encouraging people to consider teaching as a career and in supporting them to become more able to secure places on teacher training courses.

Much of the role has a focus on offering support to a cohort of candidates by phone, email and text while working from home. There is also a need for face-to-face support for candidates at events, e.g. at specialist teacher training recruitment events and at graduate recruitment fairs.

The ideal candidate will have:

• A successful teaching background, having taught in England and must hold Qualified Teacher Status
• Enthusiasm for a teaching young people in a school setting
• Outstanding influencing and persuasion skills
• An ability to build relationships with stakeholders and candidates

The Role

• Provide one-to-one support to up to 200 individual candidates at any time to retain and encourage an initial interest in teaching. Help them to decide on a teaching career, and take the most appropriate steps towards this
• Host and support events for candidates to foster and grow commitment to a teaching career
• Help candidates to improve their readiness to apply for teacher training, e.g. by supporting them to gain school experience
• Facilitate discussions in an online community, to encourage teacher training course applications
• Share insight with candidates on what teaching is really like, helping candidates to explore their concerns, such as those relating to classroom behaviour and setting realistic expectations on what schools require of trainees, NQTs, teachers and leaders

Essential Criteria

Successful candidates must:

• Be an experienced teacher in the compulsory educational setting in England, and have Qualified Teacher Status (QTS)
• Be sufficiently IT literate to successfully work from home using Outlook, MS Teams, and databases
• Be willing to travel within England, with, on occasion, the need for potential overnight stays.

Desirable Criteria

Successful candidates may have:

• Strong evidence of resilience, emotional intelligence and commitment to peers and candidates
• A working knowledge and experience of contemporary teacher training courses, or the early career framework
• Experience in coaching or mentoring adults
• Have proven ability to be adaptive to frequent change, e.g. in the policy direction of the work or emphasis on different areas of support
• Able to identify improvements in working processes

Job Types: Full-time, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 17 months initially

Salary: Circa £35,000.00 per year

Education:

• Bachelor's (required)
• Qualified Teacher Status (QTS)

Experience:

• Teaching: 1 year (required)

Licence/Certification:

• Teaching Qualification (QTS)

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: On the road

As an Education Worker you will be responsible for developing and delivering ORBISH Sexual Health Services’ Education and Wellbeing provision for young people in a variety of settings, ensuring effective delivery against commissioned contracts. This role will involve creating a positive, non-judgmental and empowering environment, supporting young people to make informed decisions and encouraging engagement with sexual health services, particularly among at-risk groups. You will deliver tailored educational programmes to build self-esteem and reduce risk-taking behaviours, and contribute to the development and evaluation of training for professionals involved in Sex and Relationships Education, including Condoms Now.

You will work within ORBISH pathways to make appropriate referrals to internal team members or external services. The role includes providing administrative support at the Integrated Contraception and Sexual Health Service Hub, with some travel to community locations required, therefor a drivers licence and access to a vehicle is essential .  This is a full-time, 12 month fixed-term position, working Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm.

Your key responsibilities include:

• Develop and deliver ORBISH Sexual Health Services’ Education and Wellbeing programmes for young people in a variety of settings, in line with commissioned contracts.

• Create a positive, empowering and non-judgmental environment that encourages self-determination and responsibility among young people.

• Support young people, with a focus on at-risk groups, to access sexual health services and support programmes.

• Deliver tailored educational programmes to enhance self-esteem and reduce risk-taking behaviours.

• Assist in the development, delivery and evaluation of training programmes for professionals involved in Sex and Relationships Education, including Condoms Now.

• Undertake initial client consultations using Fraser guidelines and service templates, ensuring accurate and timely record-keeping.

• Provide brief interventions that take a holistic approach to physical, emotional, sexual, mental and social wellbeing.

• Work within ORBISH pathways to make appropriate referrals to internal teams or external services.

• Provide administrative support at the Integrated Contraception and Sexual Health Service Hub and attend community locations as required.

The ideal candidate will have;

• Educated to GCSE level (minimum 5 passes) or equivalent
• Commitment to personal development and further training
• Drivers licence and access to a vehicle 

• Demonstrable experience of working with groups of vulnerable young people
• Experience of the issues affecting young people, particularly vulnerable or excluded groups
• Ability to communicate effectively with young people, demonstrating an awareness and understanding of the diverse range of issues affecting them
• Excellent communication skills, especially with young people and excluded groups 
• Ability to network and build sustainable working partnerships with other agencies and key stakeholders
• Ability to organise own workload and work without direct supervision
• Understanding of confidentiality in relation to sexual health
• Has knowledge of social and situational factors influencing young people’s sexual health and wellbeing
• Knowledge and understanding of the law, guidance and safeguarding issues relating to advice and treatment offered to under-16s

As an Education Worker, you’ll be part of our valued team based at Oldham Sexual Health Service. You will feel valued as an Education Worker within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• A salary of £26,712-£9,494.50 with access to our group pension
• Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of r gfenced innovation funding each year

About the Company We change lives by transforming health and care.Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.Finally, we need to let you know that the company you’ll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we’ll need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.

Education Recruitment Advisors

Start date: October 2025

Location: Home-based. Some travel required.

Salary: Dependant on experience, circa 35,000

Hours: Full-time 37.5 hours per week.

Training Duration: Initial 3 days intensive training followed by longer term on the job training & mentoring

Contract: Fixed term until 31 March 2027.

Overview

We have a temporary role as an Education Recruitment Adviser on the Teacher Training Adviser team. Our advisers work on our contract with DfE and are successful in encouraging people to consider teaching as a career and in supporting them to become more able to secure places on teacher training courses.

Much of the role has a focus on offering support to a cohort of candidates by phone, email and text while working from home. There is also a need for face-to-face support for candidates at events, e.g. at specialist teacher training recruitment events and at graduate recruitment fairs.

The ideal candidate will have:

• A successful teaching background, having taught in England and must hold Qualified Teacher Status
• Enthusiasm for a teaching young people in a school setting
• Outstanding influencing and persuasion skills
• An ability to build relationships with stakeholders and candidates

The Role

• Provide one-to-one support to up to 200 individual candidates at any time to retain and encourage an initial interest in teaching. Help them to decide on a teaching career, and take the most appropriate steps towards this
• Host and support events for candidates to foster and grow commitment to a teaching career
• Help candidates to improve their readiness to apply for teacher training, e.g. by supporting them to gain school experience
• Facilitate discussions in an online community, to encourage teacher training course applications
• Share insight with candidates on what teaching is really like, helping candidates to explore their concerns, such as those relating to classroom behaviour and setting realistic expectations on what schools require of trainees, NQTs, teachers and leaders

Essential Criteria

Successful candidates must:

• Be an experienced teacher in the compulsory educational setting in England, and have Qualified Teacher Status (QTS)
• Be sufficiently IT literate to successfully work from home using Outlook, MS Teams, and databases
• Be willing to travel within England, with, on occasion, the need for potential overnight stays.

Desirable Criteria

Successful candidates may have:

• Strong evidence of resilience, emotional intelligence and commitment to peers and candidates
• A working knowledge and experience of contemporary teacher training courses, or the early career framework
• Experience in coaching or mentoring adults
• Have proven ability to be adaptive to frequent change, e.g. in the policy direction of the work or emphasis on different areas of support
• Able to identify improvements in working processes

Job Types: Full-time, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 17 months initially

Salary: Circa 35,000.00 per year

Education:

• Bachelor's (required)
• Qualified Teacher Status (QTS)

Experience:

• Teaching: 1 year (required)

Licence/Certification:

• Teaching Qualification (QTS)

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: On the road