Overview
Mental Health & Recovery Tutor
Permanent, Part Time
£25,821 to £30,377 per annum
Location: Basildon
Closing Date: 3rd October 2025
The Role
An exciting opportunity to join the small Mental Health Recovery Programme tutors to deliver a range of courses within adult education at ACL Essex. The role will include co-production to meet the needs of mental health recovery, where the successful candidate will co-plan, co-course develop, co-deliver and co-evaluate working collaboratively with peers and learners.
Please Note: This is a part-time, permanent contract totalling 5 hours per week.
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The Opportunity
Adult Community Learning (ACL) is ECC\'s provider of lifelong learning experiences for Essex residents.
ACL offers qualifications to help people move nearer to, enter or progress within the workplace or gain skills to enhance life chances. The service focuses many of its programmes and activities on the hardest to reach communities within Essex. ACL learners have access to a diverse range of non-accredited courses which encourage creativity, healthy lifestyles, social inclusion and engagement.
Our classroom and work-based tutors design, plan, deliver and evaluate learning opportunities and experiences to challenge and enable learners from diverse backgrounds to achieve their individual goals and aspirations.
Accountabilities
* Prepare and deliver guided learning: Produce appropriate schemes of work/lesson plans; promote the effective use of individual learning plans; teach classes; provide tutorials and other supervised learning as appropriate; produce resources; promote and use technology to improve outcomes for students; support the development of Maths and English; review individual progress and revise course planning accordingly; meet minimum standards for retention and success.
* Provide effective negotiated learning experiences which enable students to meet their goals within an inclusive environment that supports all individuals. Challenge thinking, foster debate and develop the ability of learners to engage in critical discourse and rational thinking.
* Provide general advice and information with reference to pre-course information and initial assessment – including course entry criteria, student induction, progression opportunities and employability options, assessment and examination procedure.
* Provide constructive feedback: Set, mark, correct and assess individual students\' work in a timely way against comprehensive learning objectives; review and evaluate lessons and courses; maintain and effectively use Individual Learning Plans with students to facilitate progress evaluation; offer information, support and guidance regarding progression routes within and outside the organisation.
* Attend meetings as required (curriculum, pre-course, supervision, etc.). Conduct learner assessments in line with funding requirements and learner capabilities. Assess, monitor and record learners\' progress using Individual and group learning plans and record achievement. Undertake mandatory Continuing Professional Development including regular graded and ungraded observations of Learning, Teaching and Assessment; participate in any improvement plan and achievement of targets.
* Responsible for ensuring accurate and up to date record keeping (relating to retention, achievement and completion), monitoring and managing absence and facilitating ongoing and end of course evaluation.
* Actively support curriculum development and research, course promotion, the Self-Assessment process, resolution of complaints, and actively promote the Prevent Agenda, ECC & British values, Equality and Fairness in all work areas and activities.
* Comply with ACL Quality standards and other requirements, Health and Safety procedures, Safeguarding requirements, Data protection and Information Governance (GDPR).
Additional responsibilities
* Support and enable apprentices throughout their apprenticeship and with preparation for End Point Assessment; work effectively, building positive relationships with the awarding organisation and providing advice as appropriate.
Internal Quality Assurance accountabilities
* Apply internal quality assurance methodologies to ensure teaching, learning and assessment procedures meet awarding organisation requirements; ensure assessors are familiar with specific assessment and recording procedures; implement robust standardisation and complaints/appeals processes; make recommendations to improve tutor standards and quality assurance arrangements; act as End Point Assessors for the Essex Provider Network.
Specific individual and shared targets and objectives are defined annually within the performance management framework.
The Experience You Will Bring
* Educated to RQF level 3 (GCSE A-C) in Maths and English. A relevant qualification or willingness to achieve the same.
* A commitment to continuing personal development, and professional and subject specialist updating.
* Evidence of subject expertise as appropriate to the level of course to be taught.
* Experience of Teaching and Learning in the Adult Sector.
* Wider subject knowledge to support student progression.
* Knowledge of technology in the context of supporting learning. Competent in the use of technology to facilitate learning and data reporting.
* Ability to build strong and collaborative working relationships inside and outside the learning environment.
* Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
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