Outdoor Education Tutor

The Centre

Conway Centres Anglesey have been welcoming groups of young people for Outdoor Education and Arts courses, since 1969, and is now a part of Edsential Residential. The Conway Centre has large grounds and woodland areas and access to the Menai Strait through a private dock, this allows us the opportunity for a large portion of our sessions to be based onsite. We are located adjacent to the National Trusts Plas Newydd House and have easy access to the coasts, mountains, rivers and lakes of Snowdonia National Park and Anglesey AONB, which facilitates many offsite opportunities. This provides an ideal location for our approach to use Outdoor Education activities to develop young people in accordance with their groups aims. The Conway Centre can accommodate over four hundred young people and their accompanying staff all year round.

The Role.

We seek outdoor professionals to join our Freelance Outdoor Education Tutor team, who are employed on a 0 hours contract, to deliver outdoor sessions to children visiting our centre. A session, 3.5 hours plus preparation and tidying time, is either a morning, afternoon or evening.

We require you to be passionate about and committed to teaching high quality Outdoor Education courses that our customer groups return for year after year. The role will involve sharing the responsibility for the preparation, planning, co-ordination and evaluation of the outdoor residential courses. As well as inducting guests and assisting to maintain equipment and facilities, whist working closely with the outdoor team and adhering to our risk management processes.

We are looking for people who’s background will allow them to demonstrate a calm, considered and professional approach to working with a diverse clientele who may require additional support or considerations.

We are open to all applications who can demonstrate at least one season of experience of working with children and young people in the outdoors. We particularly seek staff who have demonstrated their competence by gaining national governing body awards in the activity categories we provide.

• On the water we provide canoeing, kayaking, raft building, sailing - and stand-up paddleboarding.
• On the land we provide climbing, high level ropes, zipwire, bushcraft, mountain biking and via ferrata amongst others.
• For offsite adventures, such as gorge walking, coasteering and mining you will require minibus/trailer qualification (D1+E) and up to date CPC and digital tachograph card.

The centre team are friendly, outgoing and inclusive. If you decide to become involved you will benefit from regular training, and support to gain further professional qualifications. The Conway Centre is an excellent location to continue developing your outdoor career.

The Company

Edsential are a Community Interest Company, created and partially owned by Cheshire West and Chester and Wirral Council. The company remit is to directly reinvest any profits into improving services and supporting progress in schools within the community, to improve outcomes for children and young people. Edsential supports schools with Catering, Cleaning, Creative and Performing Arts, Governors, Health and Wellbeing, Music, Residential and Curriculum Support.

For further information about this role please call 0151 541 2172 or email HR@edsential.co.uk.

Edsential regard safeguarding with the highest priority. Applicants for posts will be subject to stringent vetting and induction processes. The successful applicant will be subject to relevant checks and enhanced DBS.