Job Title: Childcare and Employability Tutor – Maternity Cover
Location:Ipswich
Working Hours: 8.30 am to 5.00 pm, Monday to Friday, 1-hour lunch, 37.5 hours per week
Options – Full-time or Term-time
Contract Type: Maternity cover, which could lead to permanent
Salary Band: Unqualified £25,000 - £30,000
Are you an inspiring Tutor with a real passion for creating engaging and creative sessions and looking for a rewarding new challenge? Are you eager to make a difference in the lives of young people by providing them with enriching knowledge and experiences?
As the skills for life tutor, you will be responsible for planning, teaching, and monitoring your learners' progress through their journey, enabling learners with learning differences to develop their confidence, independence and skills for life and work. You will plan the curriculum, ensuring the qualifications and enrichment activities are of a quality that enables learners to be successful. Working with individuals who may present challenges, your delivery will be creative and engaging to ensure individuals achieve their aims in all subjects, and most of all, are able to progress to improved opportunities.
What are we looking for?
Qualifications & Experience:
* Qualified to PTLLS/AET or equivalent (essential)
* GCSE or equivalent in English and maths at grade C/4 or above (essential)
* Qualified Childcare Level 2 minimum (essential)
* Assessor qualification (desirable)
* Experienced working with learners who present learning differences (Essential)
* Confident with your delivery (Essential)
* Knowledge of EHCPs and SEN qualifications (desirable)
As a tutor teaching Childcare and Employability, you will be responsible for the quality of education through your planning and teaching of the subject area, as well as differentiating your lesson activities and resources. you will be required to ensure work is marked, records are kept, and assessment is ongoing. You will need to ensure all learners are on track throughout the year, preparing a portfolio of work to demonstrate how they meet assessment criteria, and maintaining a high level of successful pass rates.
This course is an exciting opportunity for the right person, by providing practical lessons, excursions, visits and trips to develop the individual learner's confidence and personal skills to move forward within education of other opportunities.
Main Tasks & Responsibilities
Teaching, Learning and Assessment
* Plan for learners' needs through the use of initial assessment, previous learning and EHCPs
* Differentiate lesson plans and resources in line with learner needs as outlined in EHCP documents or through observations
* Plan and develop SMART-appropriate learning plans for individual learners alongside monitoring their EHCP outcomes.
* Conduct a 1:1 progress review with your learners
* Manage any behaviour issues that arise in line with their policy, with support from the Centre Manager
* Implement their inclusion and equal opportunity policies.
* Ensure that learning support assistants and visiting speakers are used effectively in the learning environment.
* To cover other subject areas as appropriate if required
* Organise and implement trips and events for learning
* Provide appropriate encouragement, guidance, and support to learners to help them progress
* Participate in events/open days as required and in quality reviews as required
Monitoring and Continuous Improvement
* Undertake regular CPD and record it using company documents.
* Undertake qualifications where suitable as part of your own learning and development.
Note: These responsibilities serve as an initial outline for the tasks that the post holder will initially be expected to perform. Changes may occur over time to accommodate evolving job requirements and adapt to shifting circumstances. This outline represents an initial plan and will be subject to periodic review as part of our Continuous Professional Development process.
Pre-employment checks
The company also conducts an internal online search on social media platforms in accordance with the Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. Should any pertinent information arise from this search, it will be discussed with the applicant as part of the recruitment process.
Please note that upon a successful job offer, the company performs digitalised right-to-work checks and initiates DBS applications through an external service provider. An enhanced DBS check, including the barred list, is mandatory for this role.
Paul Feldman is the National Skills Agency Data Protection Officer. Your data will be stored until notice is given by you for it to be removed. Our Data Protection Policy will be forwarded to you on request. As we get a high number of applications we may be unable to give feedback to unsuccessful candidates. We will retain your details to keep you informed of other opportunities. National Skills Agency Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy and is an Equal Opportunities employer we welcome applicants from all backgrounds