Vacancy:Employability Functional Skills Tutor (Qualified Teacher)
Hours of Work:39 hours per week: 8am till 4.30pm Monday – Friday
Contract length:Permanent
Salary:£28,000 to £31,558
Base:Brian Jackson College, Heckmondwike
CLOSING DATE:Friday 4th July at midday
INTERVIEWS:w/c 7th July 2025
Fresh Futures is a regional charity working with vulnerable and disadvantaged children, young people and their families, within Kirklees and surrounding areas. Our vision is that all young people have opportunities for a better life, now and in the future. We are thoughts leaders and together with partners, we deliver outcomes through four interwoven strands of activity – providing education services and facilities, building healthy relationships, promoting health and wellbeing and improving employability skills.
The Role
An exciting opportunity has become available within Fresh Futures’ Brian Jackson College Post 16 Team. We are seeking an enthusiastic Employability and Functional Skills Tutor to join our team. The successful candidate will play a vital role in to provide high quality teaching to pupils aged 16-18 within a specialist subject in line with the national curriculum/vocational offer to support our organisation’s mission.
Why the role exists and overall responsibility
To provide high quality teaching to pupils aged 16-18 within a specialist subject in line with the national curriculum/vocational offer
Main activities
* Deliver, create and plan classes in line with the curriculum as relevant to the age and ability group/subjects that you teach.
* Responsible for the preparation of and development of teaching materials, teaching programmes and pastoral arrangements as appropriate.
* Responsible for providing an inspiring, motivating, and challenging environment to enable pupils to fulfil their potential.
* Responsible for using different techniques to engage pupils in active, hands on, creative problem-based learning.
* Provide teaching based on each pupils’ individual needs, capabilities, and learning preferences.
* Apply a range of observation, assessment, monitoring and recording strategies as a basis for setting challenging learning objectives for pupils of all backgrounds, abilities and dispositions, monitoring learners progress and levels of attainment.
* Responsible for providing pupils with feedback to enable ongoing learning and development.
* Demonstrate an understanding of and take responsibility for promoting high standards of literacy including the correct use of spoken English (whatever your specialist subject)
* Apply cross-curricular learning to planning and teaching, embedding British values and social, moral, spiritual and cultural (SMSC) education.
* Establish a safe, purposeful, and stimulating environment for pupils.
* Use the school’s framework for behaviour management to implement a range of strategies, consistently and fairly.
* Participate in any relevant meetings/professional development opportunities at the school, which relate to learners, curriculum or organisation of the school including pastoral arrangements.
* Take part as required in the review, development and management of the activities relating to the curriculum, organisation, and pastoral functions of the school.
* To contribute to the completion and review of half termly support plans, Individual provision maps (IPM’s) and individual pupil target sheets.
* Collaborate with the examinations officer regarding functional skills, GCSE and AQA entries.
* Ensure parents/ carers are kept informed of pupil’s progress, achievements and well-being.
* Coordinate delivery and progress across both provisions working collaboratively with all teaching staff employed at Brian Jackson College.
* To ensure that adequate information is provided if ‘cover’ is needed for absence due to sickness or any other cause.
* Responsible for maintaining good levels of continuous professional development (CPD) in relation to education, alternative provision and SEN/SEMH.
* Responsible for the updating of pupil records, tracking and plans.
* Responsible for ensuring marking and feedback is provided in a timely manner in line with schools marking policy.
* Willingness to support and drive the school’s vision and ethos.
Knowledge, training and experience required
* Experience working with KS3 & KS4 and post 16 pupils in Alternative provision or PRU setting.
* Specialist subject
* CertEd/PGCE/QTS/QTLS or equivalent
* Experience of delivering GCSE within the national curriculum, and functional skills
* Experience of assessing, recording, and reporting on pupils learning
* Working with young people experiencing SEMH
* Training in behaviour management
* Use of SMART board desirable
Key personal characteristics
* A team player with a positive, solution focused approach
* Flexible and reliable
* Inspiring and enthusiastic
* Good time management
* Excellent organisational skills
* Sense of humour
Completed application forms should ideally be emailed to us at jennifer.netherwood@freshfutures.org.uk or be posted to Jennifer Netherwood Brian Jackson College Vision House, High Street Heckmondwike WF16 0AD. and must arrive no later at the closing date and time specified.
If you are interested in this role, please complete the application form plus any additional role specific forms found at the top of this page, and return it to Jennifer.netherwood@freshfutures.org.uk before the closing date.
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