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Company Description
Do remarkable things, and help learners nationally with our extraordinary functional skills and learning support team.
Paragon Skills are Ofsted Grade 2 “Good” and the UK’s Number 1 Training provider, with a true dedication to helping our learners succeed. We are passionate, determined, and inspiring individuals who support thousands of learners and businesses nationally and we are committed to our pledge to deliver an outstanding teaching and learning experience to every learner every time.
Our people are at the heart of everything we do and we are proud to be a gold standard for Investors in People, Investors in Young People, and Leaders in Safeguarding and be a disability confident employer.
We have an exciting opportunity to join our team!
Position
Location: Remote - National based learners
Salary: £24,000 - £29,000 with up to £6000 performance based bonus
We are looking for an energised, passionate and experienced functional skills expert to join us as a remote based Functional Skills Tutor. In this role you will guide and coach a diverse caseload of learners on a predominantly remote basis by encouraging and inspiring them to complete their planned learning and development tasks throughout their learning journey.
Using your unique edge and passion for all things learning support and functional skills you will deliver innovative teaching and learning to our learners to progress them through their qualification and work with the Learning Support Manager to support the national delivery of Functional Skills.
In this role you will...
1. Motivate, engage and inspire learners to achieve their functional skills requirements in a timely manner
2. Conduct group and 1:1 delivery
3. Provide exceptional additional learning support as required
4. Collaborate with wider operational teams to ensure completion of initial diagnostic assessment
5. Use quality improvement approved resources to deliver impactful functional skills sessions
Requirements
What we need from you...
1. Minimum of Level 2 qualification in functional skills - English & maths
2. Experience of delivering additional learning support
3. Experience of teaching functional skills
4. Experience of managing a diverse caseload remotely
5. Ability to be flexible and adaptable to change
We will be reviewing applications and conducting interviews on an on-going basis which may mean this vacancy closes prior to the advertised closing date if we have identified a suitable candidate, so please apply as soon as possible.
Other information
Paragon Skills is an inclusive, welcoming, and supportive place to work with a fantastic culture which supports each employee's learning, development and career growth, and we are proud to offer a suite of Paragon Choices which are optional benefits including life assurance and income protection and core benefits below.
* 20 days annual leave - increasing with length of service and a holiday purchase scheme
* 3 Paragon Days for our Operational December Closure and 8 Public Bank Holidays
* Up to 3 days of paid volunteering leave and corporate conscience initiatives
* Perkbox – a suite of lifestyle benefits and wellness tools
* Going for Gold - performance based incentive payment (up to 6k annually)
We are a Disability Confident Employer and have a guaranteed interview scheme in place to ensure that nobody is overlooked or discriminated against because of their disability. If you meet the minimum criteria when you apply and you have informed us in your application that you have a disability, you will be guaranteed an interview for that role. To promote and maintain an inclusive working environment, as part of your application process we will ask you to share data on certain characteristics. These answers will not form part of the selection and recruitment process and will not be shared with anyone outside of the People Team.
We are Leaders in Safeguarding Gold and committed to the safeguarding, welfare and wellbeing of our learners and colleagues and implement robust safer recruitment practices to support this. Dependent on the role you are applying for, we may undertake a number of necessary checks to confirm you are suitable to work with children and vulnerable adults, which may include a Disclosure and Barring Service check. We are proud to inspire success and we can only do this by recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce that is representative of the learners and clients we support, and we encourage applications from diverse backgrounds and actively promote equality and inclusion throughout our colleague and learner populations.
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