Job Title: School Garden Tutor, Ruskin Mill's Sunfield School
Location: Clent Hills, Nr Stourbridge, West Midlands
Hours: 40 hours per week, 52 weeks per year
Salary: £24,717 - £35,119 per annum dependent upon qualifications
Contract type: Permanent
About Sunfield Specialist School
Sunfield Specialist School is an innovative provision offering full-time education to children with significant/complex social, emotional, or educational difficulties. The curriculum emphasizes outdoor land and craft-based practical skills, including textiles, green woodwork, pottery, cooking, and blacksmithing. The school garden serves as a space for learning and engagement with the plant and animal world.
Job Responsibilities
1. Deliver tailored seasonal garden sessions to learners.
2. Develop curriculum opportunities for land-based learning, collaborating with the School Farm Manager, Tutors, and Teachers to support garden-based learning throughout the school.
3. Maintain the existing school garden, including small-scale pig and chicken husbandry.
4. Work alongside therapy and land teams to develop immersive sensory and play environments within the garden and wider estate.
5. Demonstrate honesty, reliability, excellent communication skills, resilience, versatility, and teamwork.
6. Show a keenness to improve knowledge and skills in this unique educational environment.
7. Participate actively in linking produce from the land to residential services and school kitchens.
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