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**POST: Numeracy Tutor (Maternity Cover)**

**HOURS: 37.5 hours per week**

**LOCATION: Neath Port Talbot**

**SALARY: £26,500 per annum**

**ANNUAL LEAVE: 25 days + 8 bank holiday days paid holiday**

**INTRODUCTION TO WHITEHEAD-ROSS EDUCATION AND CONSULTING**

Whitehead-Ross Education and Consulting (WREC) is an education and social welfare organisation. Founded in 2012, we deliver a variety of high-quality skills-related programmes and social services provision.

Our programmes include support for unemployed individuals to retrain and secure jobs, vocational training programmes, adult education and social services provision such as support for families who have children with disabilities and parenting support.

With a workforce of 106 staff and still expanding, between 1st August 2022 and
30th July 2023, we supported a total of 3,568 participants across our programmes in Cornwall, Dorset, South Wales, Sussex, Wiltshire and Worcestershire. Since we started in 2012, we have now supported 11,493 individuals

**PRIMARY JOB FUNCTION**

The UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF) is a central pillar of the UK Government’s Levelling Up agenda. The fund provides £2.6 billion of new funding for local investment by March 2025. The UKSPF replaced European funding following the UK’s withdrawal from the EU.

Whitehead-Ross Education has been successful in securing funding from the UKSPF for Multiply, delivered in partnership with Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council. Multiply is the UK Government’s initiative to improve adult numeracy skills to support individuals to access employment, have higher wages, and better wellbeing.

The aim of Multiply is to provide meaningful participation that boosts people’s ability to use maths in their daily life, at home and work - and enable adults to achieve formal qualifications that can open doors for them (such as career progression, or progression to further study).

We are looking for an experienced Numeracy Tutor to deliver a variety of basic numeracy courses from our centre in Neath Port Talbot, along with community venues across Neath Port Talbot.

**RESPONSIBILITIES**
- Deliver classroom-based accredited and non-accredited numeracy courses.
- Effective interpretation of a range of initial assessment and diagnostic tools.
- Devising Learner Journeys/Action Plans taking into consideration various learning styles and individual learner needs.
- Contribute to on-going development of schemes of work and curriculum plans.
- Attend and participate in meetings and produce reports as requested.
- Attend training events / courses as required, maintaining own CPD and contribute to curriculum development.
- Be responsible for and effectively manage a caseload of learners.
- Maintain a high standard of training and ensure performance targets are achieved.
- Ensure learners understand the requirements of their programme.
- Provide ongoing advice and guidance to learners from enrolment to progression, along with signposting to external sources of support.
- Monitor and mark learners’ work.
- Complete and maintain individual learning plans and progress reviews.
- At all times ensure that safe working practices are adopted in compliance with relevant health and safety procedures.
- Demonstrate commitment to equality of opportunity and treatment and comply with company policy and procedures and relevant legislation relating to equality and diversity.
- Facilitate effective timely reviews with learners and provide appropriate pastoral support to learners to enable them to complete their courses.
- To lead on marketing and engaging with external stakeholders to ensure that learners are recruited and enrolled on the courses.

**PERSON SPECIFICATION**

**Qualifications**
- PGCE or teaching qualification at Level 5.
- English and Mathematics qualification at Level 2.

**Experience**
- Previous experience of delivering adult learning courses.

**Aptitudes and abilities**
- Excellent inter-personal skills.
- Excellent communication skills (face-to-face, written, telephone).
- Good organisational, administrative and time management skills.
- Highly developed ICT skills.
- Ability to manage own workload and to work unsupervised.
- Ability to work to agreed deadlines.

**Knowledge**
- Current and up-to date knowledge of good practice in National Occupational Standards.
- Ability to complete relevant documentation and produce.
- Have a flexible approach and the ability to liaise with learners, employers and curriculum staff.
- Knowledge and understanding of the FE sector.
- An excellent understanding of, and commitment to:

- Equality, diversity and inclusion.
- Health and safety.
- Ethical sales activity.
- Customer care.

**Attitude/Motivation**
- Willingness to undertake appropriate professional training in line with current service requirements.
- A sound educational philosophy which recognises the value of education for all learners and its contribution to an individual’s life chance