Additional Learning Tutor

Role Profile:
Additional Learning Needs (ALN) Tutor

Reports to:

Additional Learning Needs (ALN) Manager.

• Salary: £30,000
• Home based role with travel (mileage paid)
• Laptop and mobile phone provided
• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays (increasing with length of service)
• Christmas & New Year shutdown period
• Pension scheme
• Specsavers scheme
• Access to 1000's of student discounts inc. Unidays, Student Beans and TOTUM
• £500 employee referral bonus scheme
• Enhanced sick pay & maternity reward vouchers
• Employee well-being and assistance programme
• Access to EV company car scheme
• Life assurance cover

As an Additional Learning Needs (ALN) Tutor, you will be responsible for providing support for apprentices with additional learning needs, disabilities, or barriers to learning. You will ensure that appropriate interventions, adjustments, and resources are in place and regularly reviewed with the learners to enable all learners to progress and achieve their qualifications. This role requires collaboration with tutors, employers, and external support agencies to provide a fully inclusive learning environment.

• Work with and motivate a caseload of learners as assigned by the ALN Manager.
• Carry out regular ALN reviews with learners, provide additional support and ensure all activity is documented to support ALS funding claims.
• Effectively communicate with tutors and the ALN manager regarding learner progress and any specific reasonable adjustments required for individual learners.
• Support the implementation of strategies to improve accessibility and inclusivity in apprenticeship training.
• Carry out sensitive conversations with learners when delivering feedback from assessments.
• Make referrals to the ALN Manager when specific profiles are required.
• Update systems to a high-quality level after each ALN review, using effective IT skills when using multiple systems.
• Support the ALN Manager to run support, standardisation and drop‑in sessions for tutors.
• Provide training and guidance to tutors on additional learning needs and best practices for supporting apprentices with ALN.
• Complete own CPD to deepen understanding of ALN and effective ways to support and motivate learners.
• Work closely with employers to ensure workplace adjustments are in place and promote inclusive learning environments.
• Raise any safeguarding concerns to the Safeguarding Team in line with reporting procedures.

Using your professional and/or personal experience of ALN, and with a passion for supporting individuals with Additional Learning Needs, you will be able to motivate learners to achieve their goals and support them to achieve their qualification. You will take an individualised yet methodical and organised approach to supporting learners whilst ensuring attention to detail and delivering to the highest possible quality standards.

• Experience in working with individuals with additional learning needs, ideally in an apprenticeship, education, or work‑based learning setting.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work collaboratively across teams.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities.

• A level 3 SEND qualification.
• Experience in using learner management systems and tracking tools.
• Knowledge of assistive technologies and accessibility tools.
• Understanding of the apprenticeship framework.
• Experience in using Cognassist assessment tools.

• Understand what we do and why – Understand the mission and brand promise to meet learner and employer needs.
• Customer Focus – Keeping the learner and employer experience at the heart of everything we do.
• Passion – Displaying energy and commitment to deliver the best experience to learners, employers and wider business teams.
• Doing Whatever It Takes To Get It Done – Delivering urgent solutions with a can‑do approach.
• Tenacity – Driving issues to resolution and achieving optimal outcomes for learners and employers.
• Ownership – Taking accountability for your job role and results.
• Communication – Ensuring…