Field Studies Tutor

**Field Studies** Tutor**

**Field Studies Council Amersham, South Buckinghamshire**

**circa £23,407 per annum plus, excellent benefits **

**Full time / Permanent contract**

**Accommodation Available - relocate and be surrounded by nature**

**Join our team and love where you work**

**What you’ll be doing**

This role will see you working with primary and secondary schools, colleges, and universities to deliver curriculum-linked activities that will increase students understanding of nature and the environment.

Your day to day will include developing, planning, and delivering outdoor learning activities to a wide-ranging audience. This will involve leading groups of all abilities in the local environment, ensuring you always have the health and safety of the group in mind.

When you are not working in the field, you will also be happy to contribute to other aspects of working in a busy education centre. This is a very active role, some weeks will be long and tiring, but our tutors find this work very rewarding, and we promise you will too

Follow this link to meet our Senior Tutor, Pippa. Let her show you what it is like to work as a Tutor at the Field Studies Council and why she loves where she works

Please refer to the vacancy pack for full details of the responsibilities of the role.

**Where you’ll be based**

Set in South Buckinghamshire, within the Chiltern Hills AONB (Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty), Amersham Field Centre is located within 30 hectares of mixed woodland, meadows and ponds which surround and conceal Amersham Substation. The centre has two classrooms plus a yurt for the summer months. Most activities, apart from river and settlement studies, take place within an easy walk of the field centre building.

**We ask that you have**:

- A great work ethic where aptitude and attitude are key
- A natural pride in the work you produce
- A flexible and adaptive approach able to perform using your own initiative both independently and as a team player
- A professional manner in all that you do
- An empathy with the aims and objectives of Field Studies Council
- A committed and proactive approach to personal development; motivated to learn new skills and overcome new challenges

Kindly note as part of this position, you will be responsible for making your own way to field sites to meet your students. As some of these sites are in remote locations and cannot be reached by public transport, it would be ideal if you could drive.
- **Benefits**
- Holidays - 28 days, plus bank holidays, plus up to 2 extra loyalty days dependent on length of service
- Pension
- Sick Pay
- 24hr Counselling Helpline Service
- Life Assurance
- Health Cash Plan
- Training & Development
- Happy to talk flexible working
- Accommodation can be provided on a chargeable basis

If you have any queries regarding this vacancy, please contact Jennifer Lewis (Education Team Leader) on Tel No. 01494 721 054.

Interviews are scheduled to take place either online or at Field Studies Council Amersham.