Horticulture Tutor

**Who we are?**

This is an exciting time to join the TCHC Group. TCHC Group was set up in August 2004. Since then, we have continued to develop and deliver programmes to support both young people and adults to learn, achieve and progress to greater opportunities. TCHC is an organisation that believes in creating opportunities for all. It is an organisation that is ethical, friendly, and considerate and encompasses these values in all its services and operations. Most of all we believe in working together as a team to create opportunities for the individuals we work with to grow, to help them recognise and achieve their aspirations and goals and attain a positive outcome.

The staff who work for TCHC are learner-centric and want to make a real difference to the people they work with, enabling them to improve their employment situation, some of whom will have had poor experiences of learning and employment in the past. Some may have complex lives and require signposting to other organisations who can help.

Staff are valued and recognised for the contribution they make towards the organisation’s vision and goals and the effective support they provide to the individuals we engage with. We have a strong belief that success is created together; one of the reasons why we are a great employer to work for.
- **TCHC is a disability confident committed employer.**_

**Who are we looking for?**

TCHC is looking for a Horticulture Tutor who is creative and engaging to ensure individuals achieve their qualifications for a small group of learners and work efficiently across the team. You will be supported by your Centre Manager and the Quality Team who is responsible for leading the team to drive up quality, reaching and exceeding KPI’s and promoting our ethos for continuous improvement.

You will contribute as an effective collaborator with a new team and be responsible for planning and teaching the curriculum, as well as a differentiation of courses, and will be required to ensure work is marked, recorded, and assessment is ongoing, ensuring all learners are ready for examinations and/or completions and achievement. This role requires you to be creative with ensuring learners are being prepared for the world of work by improving their skills and qualities while achieving qualifications. Make learning fun, engaging and interesting to ensure consistency with attendance and progress while enabling individuals to achieve.

**Job Title**:Horticulture Tutor

**Location**:Dunstable Centre

**Working Hours**:8.30 am to 5.00 pm, Monday to Friday, inclusive of 1-hour lunch unpaid, 37.5 working hours per week (Hours and days can be negotiated).

**Contract Type**:Perm

**Reports to**:Centre Manager & EHCP Coordinator

**Salary Band**:£26,000 - £30,000 per annum (pro rata for part-time and term-time options)

**What are we looking for?**

**Qualifications**:
Qualified to DTLLS/Cert Ed / PGCE (or equivalent) - Desired

Qualified to PTLLS / CTLLS (Or Equivalent)

GCSE (Or equivalent) in English and Maths at Grade C or above

Vocational qualification in Horticulture

Qualified to TAQA / A1 (or equivalent) - Desired

**Main Tasks & Responsibilities**
- Create effective schemes of work that support the learning process of individuals.
- Prepare and develop innovative lesson plans, designing and delivering group activities.
- Deliver training to individuals and groups following the programme curriculum, setting objectives and targets for achievement.
- Provide one-to-one support to learners where necessary.
- Hold a manageable caseload of learners.
- Liaise with relevant team members to ensure learners achieve their targets and progress toward appropriate outcomes.
- Read and analyse EHCP’s ensuring you identify the learning needs of the individual while ensuring the correct resources are in place for individuals.
- Manage behaviour effectively within sessions ensuring sessions can continue.
- Provide appropriate encouragement, guidance and support to learners to help them progress.
- Prepare and submit up-to-date assessments of learners, across all relevant activities.
- Monitor and maintain appropriate paperwork, reviews, and records of progress tracking and report all cases of learner behavioural issues, sickness and absence.
- Prepare for and attend monthly course reviews with your line manager.
- Provide learners with all relevant policies and regulations to clarify what is expected of them and to ensure their safety.
- Establish, develop and maintain effective working relationships with other external organisations involved with the service and learners.
- Actively participate in continuous improvement and self-assessments and the implementation of subsequent action plans
- Complete all required documentation accurately and within agreed timescales.
- Ongoing management and administration tasks, including but not limited to session planning, logging results and providing timely feedback to learners.
- Work alongside the Q