Functional Skills Tutor

Full time- Permanent

The role of the Functional Skills Maths and English Tutor involves delivering education, training, and assessment while ensuring the well-being and progress of students, meeting administrative requirements, and achieving performance targets.

The responsibilities of the Functional Skills Tutor:

• Deliver high quality and inclusive teaching and learning sessions both face to face and remote, 1-2-1 and in groups when required.
• Complete and use initial assessment results to ensure learning needs are met.
• Liaison with employers (where needed) on the development of training programmes to satisfy employer. requirements and add value to learners.
• Monitor learner progress to ensure learning continues and learners achieve in a timely manner.
• To support the achievement of KPI’s, business performance, and contractual targets for learner retention and success rates.
• Work closely with the Quality and Compliance Team to ensure paperwork associated with the programme is completed to a high standard within required timescales, and that systems and processes are followed and are in line with contractual deadlines.
• Promote Safeguarding and Prevent, British values, Maths and English in all sessions.
• Deliver additional sessions and one to one support where required to ensure all learners can succeed.
• Track and record learner progress ensuring that accurate and reliable information on predicted achievement and success rates are readily available.

The qualifications/requirements of the Functional Skills Tutor:

• Have experience delivering English and Maths to groups of learners and individuals from a range of backgrounds.
• Have full teaching qualification - PGCE, PCET, DTLLS
• Have a Recognised Assessor award: D32/D33, A1, TAQA or CAVA.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• An understanding of different learning styles and how to differentiate through various teaching methods.
• Knowledge and experience of teaching and learning strategies.
• Excellent organisational, IT and administrative skills.
• Full, clean driving licence and use of a vehicle must be flexible with travel. (business insurance is compulsory)

Please note- an enhanced DBS check is a requirement for this role.

Due to the volume of applications we receive, we will not be able to contact every applicant. Please assume if you have not had a response within 2 weeks that you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.