Pottery teacher / Trainee Pottery Tutor
Trained ceramics teacher £29,616 – £45,120 pro rata incl 4 weeks holiday.
Trainee tutor £23,220-£29,616 pro rata incl 4 weeks holiday.
Part-time: 2 weekdays per week and 2-4 weekend days per month (0.5-0.6 full time hours).
Starting end of October/November
The job has 2 hours technician work during weekdays which is included in the above salaries.
Running for over 25 years, 7 Limes pottery is Manchester’s first community pottery studio open to the general public, that delivers training in traditional pottery making skills. We’re looking for an experienced pottery tutor who wants to be part of a thriving pottery studio. We’re looking for someone who can commit to our student’s development in learning for both casual and serious learners, who can contribute to the overall success of the studio as a business, and someone who is able to encourage a supportive and positive working environment. The individual must be proactive, reliable, responsible, amicable, enthusiastic, helpful with tasks around the studio, and willing to adapt their teaching to 7 Limes Pottery’s teaching style.
Teaching Duties
- Teaching evening and/or daytime classes as well as weekend workshops.
- Lesson planning, evaluating courses, and developing and implementing improvements to them with the director.
- Ensuring equipment and materials are ready for each class.
- Ensuring the workshop remains clean, tidy and organised after all sessions.
Technician responsibilities
Loading/unloading kilns, preparing clay/reclaiming clay, organising student work, mixing up slips, mixing up glazes, mould making, studio maintenance, managing cleaning of shared studio customers, stock taking, and cleaning among other duties.
Essential attributes
- Experience of managing, motivating and inspiring students and their creativity.
- Teaching qualification or equivalent experience, with a good understanding of teaching approaches and learning methods.
- Degree in ceramics or equivalent experience.
- Must be able to throw and turn on the wheel confidently and proficiently (to be demonstrated at interview).
- Good communication skills, particularly verbal interpersonal skills
- Ability to learn new skills and methods and to improve on current skill base.
- A good understanding of COSHH and the tasks required to maintain good health and safety in a ceramics studio environment.
- Must be able to deal with the physical nature of lifting clay regularly (12.5kg) and with kneading clay in preparation for classes if it is too firm or soft.
- A consistent ability to be a positive ambassador that promotes the studio
Desirable attributes
- Previous experience teaching ceramics
- Excellent making skills, including but not limited to throwing, turning, coiling, pinching, slabbing, decoration and glazing.
Helpful attributes
Mould making/plaster work skills, social media proficiency.
We’re willing to accept applications from individuals who don’t meet the essential attributes, with on-the-job training. The pay will start at £23,220 progressing based on the amount of training needed. Please let us know this is what you’re applying for in your application.
The position would work well for someone alongside their own professional ceramics practice. There is the possibility to implement more working hours up to full-time. Freelance is preferred, but we will also consider applicants who will require a employment contract. We welcome applications from previous applicants as well as new.
Apply
Please send a covering letter and CV along with and a link to portfolio (website/social media/google drive folder; there must be at least 4 images of your own work) to:
jobs@7limes.co.uk