Your role is all about ensuring our learners succeed. Through both classroom based learning and more tailored 1-2-1 support – you will be driven by seeing the difference we can make in peoples’ lives when they succeed.
As a Skills Tutor, a typical day might include:
1. Delivering an effective and motivating curriculum across sites as required
2. Ensuring our curriculum intent is embedded in all teaching, and sequencing is achieved through all delivery
3. Supporting the creation of schemes of work, lesson plans and appropriate teaching resources for own teaching sessions
4. Supporting learners on a day-to-day basis to address obstacles, raise confidence and self-esteem, develop social and work skills and achieve goals
5. Developing and supporting links and engagement activities with partner organisations and employers in order to develop new opportunities for learners (eg. activities to promote personal and social skills, work placements, development of tutorial sessions and CPD activities)
6. Helping learners to identify and record progression opportunities - further learning, apprenticeships or employment
7. To help develop techniques to monitor progress and evaluate the programmes, including effective ways of encouraging learner feedback
8. Lead on the involvement of young people in our programme development through learner voice activities
9. Being responsible for Quality Assurance of your teaching to ensure our learners receive the best service possible.
10. Planning, preparing, delivering and evaluating all the courses you deliver across the provision.
11. Lead on course outline information and schemes of work for courses you deliver, ensuring all is in place at all times.
What we need to see in your application (dont worry if you dont tick every box):
12. Relevant professional/Subject qualifications at least to level 3 or an in-depth knowledge and substantial experience in the subject area.
13. Teaching qualification appropriate for working in Post 16 Sector, and/or willingness to undergo further training.
14. L3 Education and Training or willingness to undertake this
15. Awareness of the needs of underachieving and disengaged young people
16. Ability to deal with behaviours that challenge at times
17. Experience of working positively with young people
18. Good time management and organisational skills
19. Good standard of English, maths and ICT
20. Experience of delivering within a community setting to all ages
21. Resilience. Working with us is a challenging but rewarding career. You’ll be helping to bring real change to our customers’ lives.
22. Experience of working to achieve targets in a timely manner
23. Ability to work as a team, under pressure and in a fast-paced environment
Being part of the Acis team, you’ll get:
24. Generous holiday entitlement – 25 days annual leave every year plus bank holidays (pro rata)
25. Pension contributions up to 4%
26. The opportunity to undertake professional training, funded by us.
27. One days paid leave a year for volunteering work (in addition to your Annual leave entitlement)
28. Staff benefits with Paycare – A health and benefits scheme giving you support and contributions towards various health benefits such as counselling, eye tests, vaccinations and much more
29. Benefits with Acis Perkz – a discount scheme giving you savings off hundreds of schemes including discounts on your coffee, weekly shop, days out and much more!
30. Employee recognition scheme, where we celebrate and award our Stars within Acis, including gift vouchers
31. Long service awards for our loyal employees
32. Cycle to work scheme
33. Employee Assistance Programme to give you confidential advice and support, when you need it
34. Professional membership subscription to support your continuous professional development
35. Death in service benefit aligned to our pension scheme
As soon as a suitable candidate is found for this role we reserve the right to close the job advert ahead of the closing date, so please do not delay in submitting your application.
As part of our commitment to safeguarding there will be numerous safeguarding checks that form part of the recruitment process including an Enhanced DBS check and you will be required to complete a self declaration form at interview stage. Please note this role is also exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and it is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from regulated activity.
Acis are committed to equality and diversity, are a proud member of disability confident and welcome applications from any applicant who feel they hold the essential skills to fulfil the role. We recognise that people need flexibility in their role and we’re happy to discuss flexible working options with the successful candidate in addition to any aid with interviewing that you might need