Employability & Skills Tutor

Come and join our team at the Ipswich Education Centre, be part of something special that will make a difference to young people.

Are you an inspiring Tutor with a real passion for creating engaging and creative sessions, and looking for a rewarding new challenge? Are you eager to make a difference in the lives of young people by providing them with enriching knowledge and experiences?

As the Employability & Skills for Life Tutor, you will be responsible for planning, teaching, and monitoring your learners’ progress through their journey, enabling learners with learning differences to develop their confidence, independence and skills for life and work. You will plan the curriculum, ensuring the qualifications and enrichment activities are of a quality that enables learners to be successful. Working with individuals who may present challenges, your delivery will be creative and engaging to ensure individuals achieve their aims in all subjects, and most of all, are able to progress to improved opportunities.

• Qualified to PTLLS/DTLLS/Cert Ed/ PGCE (Essential) (or willing to work towards a teaching qualification)
• Experience of teaching learners with various abilities or learning needs (Essential)
• GCSE in English and maths at grade C/4 or above, or Functional skills Level 2 (Essential)
• Experienced working with learners who present learning differences (Essential)
• Confident with your delivery (Essential)
• Knowledge of EHCPs (desirable)

As a tutor teaching Employability and Skills for Life, you will be responsible for the quality of education through your planning and teaching of the subject area, as well as differentiating your lesson activities and resources. you will be required to ensure work is marked, records are kept, and assessment is ongoing. You will need to ensure all learners are on track throughout the year, preparing a portfolio of work to demonstrate how they meet assessment criteria, and maintaining a high level of successful pass rates.

This course is an exciting opportunity for the right person, by providing practical lessons, excursions, visits and trips to develop the individual learner’s confidence and personal skills to move forward within education of other opportunities.

• Prepare/adapt an appropriate range of teaching materials.
• Identify/assess the needs of learners and, if necessary, adapt course content and delivery style to meet these needs.
• Deal appropriately with individual learner support needs, using the appropriate forms and recording the required evidence as per the guidelines provided.
• Comply with the TCHC policy on Safeguarding and Prevent so that all learners are taught in a safe environment and are made aware of the Prevent strategy.
• Comply with the TCHC policy on Equality and Diversity so that all learners are treated with respect and dignity in an environment in which a diversity of backgrounds and experiences is valued. Deal with any harassment or discrimination issues that arise.
• Discuss Learning Outcomes and moderation requirements with learners as the course proceeds.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of learning. Assess learners’ work in a timely manner using a range of assessment methods. Keep records of learners’ progress and ensure learners are given feedback on their progress.
• Be responsible for promoting and safeguarding (including Prevent) the welfare of all learners for whom you have responsibility or with whom you come into contact and adhere to TCHC’s Safeguarding and Prevent policies.
• Offer advice on further learning and progression opportunities to learners as required.
• Attend relevant induction and training meetings as required by TCHC.
• Where appropriate, attend standardisation meetings.
• Represent TCHC throughout the programme.
• Follow the education inspection framework.
• Undertake regular CPD and record it using company documents.
• Undertake qualifications where suitable as part of your own learning and development.
• Take proactive approaches to ensure Safeguarding and Prevent is embedded into the delivery and ensure issues are raised accordingly, in line with TCHC’s Safeguarding Policy, using the appropriate recording and reporting…