Location
Carlisle, Cumbria | United Kingdom
Job description
Job Title : Functional Skills Tutor
Location : Carlisle
Job Type : Full-time
Salary : £23,500-30,000 DOE
Role Overview :
The role of a Functional Skills Tutor involves providing essential support to learners in Carlisle. This role includes delivering accredited activities across a suite of Vocational courses for a well-established independent training provider.
Key Responsibilities :
- Maintain learner records accurately and ensure all evidence for all visits is readily available and accessible for audit and quality purposes.
- Implement any improvements identified as a result of performance reviews and internal quality assurance.
- Develop and maintain own professional and occupational knowledge, skills, and experience, including formal training, CPD and networking with fellow professionals. Incorporating self-reflection to improve practice.
- Undertake regular and meaningful reviews with learners to ensure they remain engaged on the program and that they are progressing well relative to their initial starting point.
- Plan lessons effectively and ensure that activities are innovative and differentiated towards individual learners and that learner support is effectively assessed, reviewed, implemented and evaluated throughout the learner’s journey.
- Monitor learner’s progression and ensure all forms of teaching, learning and assessment for each element of the qualification is completed enabling learners to meet the criteria for achievement of the chosen qualification.
- Train, assess, motivate, mentor and support learners, assisting them to develop personal and social skills to better prepare them for work, progression, and life.
- Take part in Standardisation and team meetings and undertake continuing professional development as required.
- Deliver outstanding teaching, learning, and assessment to learners.
- Promote, and deliver training in accordance with qualification and centre guidelines, including the promotion of equality and diversity and Prevent in lessons.
- Adhere to all statutory responsibilities and ensure Health and Safety, Safeguarding and Prevent policies and procedures are followed at all times.
- Maintain high standards of quality and compliance and complete all contractual paperwork and documentation as required.
Essential/Desirable Criteria :
- Assessor Qualification (A1, D32/33, TAQA, CAVA) or willingness to work towards
- Functional Skills Level 2 in Maths, English, and ICT
- Experience using e-portfolio systems
- Successful delivery of vocational qualifications through remote and digital platforms
- Recognized teaching qualification (e.g., PGCE, PTLLS or equivalent)
- GCSE English Language or equivalent (Grade A*-C)
- Level 3 award assessing, vocationally related achievement or equivalent
Benefits :
- 33 days holiday including bank holidays
- Additional holiday days for exemplary attendance and length of service
- Company-wide Christmas shutdown
- Holiday Exchange (buy or sell up to 5 extra holiday days per year)
- Flexitime policy (up to 4 hours flexitime per month)
- Wellbeing Day off
- Comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme
- Company sick pay
- Training and development programmes tied to pay rewards and bonus payments
- Managerial budgets for team building and fun activities
- Participation in at least one charity event per year
All positions are subject to checks, including an Enhanced DBS clearance. Candidates who are barred from working with children should not apply.
For any expressions of interest or for more information, please call Robert Rowe on 07935 141342 or send CVs to [email protected].
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