Multi-trade Construction Tutor

**Closing date**: Friday 10 January 2025

**Interview date**: week commencing 13th January 2025

**Job Type**: - Full-time (Monday - Friday)

**Pay**:19K - 25K dependent upon experience

**Start date**: 24th February 2025 or ASAP

**Normal hours**: 8.30-4pm

Strive for Education (Strive) is a small Independent Special School in Harrogate town centre that provide education for those who do not attend mainstream school on a full-time basis or who have a specialist provision named in their EHCP.

Strive started its life as Alternative Provision in 2020, set up by Andy and Sonja Brown. Andy has previously worked in local secondary schools and whilst Assistant Headteacher he saw a need for a setting such as Strive in the Harrogate area. Andy is Headteacher and Sonja manages the Operations and Business side of things. In February 2023 Strive achieved its Independent Special School status, this was a huge milestone for the team.

Thursday and Friday would be based at our North Park Road site but taking our core class groups to complete short sessions of practical activity at the workshop. These classes are 6 students with 2 staff.

All sessions are designed to develop key skills in the particular practical areas in addition to meeting personal objectives outlined in their EHCP. Experience in working with young people with ASC/SEMH would be beneficial.

This will be a challenging but rewarding environment, working with young people who may struggle to regulate their emotions at times. Students will at times present challenging behaviours and staff must have the confidence and emotional resilience to deal with this. Strive offers a nurturing environment, small class sizes and high staff to student ratios in order to best support out students and staff.

**Student Needs**

All students will have some form of SEND needs. Most will either be categorised as Social Emotional & Mental Health (SEMH) or Autistic Spectrum Condition (ASC). Most need extra support to access their work and help and guidance to manage emotions is often needed. Some students experience difficulties that regularly interfere with their social and learning development and have been directed to access specialist provision to receive this support.

At the discretion of the lead tutor, you will support:

- The course set-up, structure, delivery, and assessment methods.
- The delivering, assessment in a range of the following areas:

- Bricklaying, woodwork and joinery, plumbing, roofing, flooring, plastering, electrical work, painting and decorating.

You will demonstrate enthusiasm and motivation, be a “hands on” person who can encourage young people to engage in this project and develop valuable skills to help them progress into employment in the construction sectors and/or into further training.

This will be a challenging but rewarding environment, working with young people who may struggle to regulate their emotions at times. Students will at times present challenging behaviours and staff must have the confidence and emotional resilience to deal with this.

**Key Responsibilities**

Strive operates in a demanding and often changing environment. Members of staff must be flexible, adaptable and willing to face up to changing circumstances and new opportunities. The following list of duties and responsibilities must therefore be taken as a guide and is not to be regarded as fully comprehensive:

- Support the tutor to plan and facilitate well-structured, high quality learning experiences to meet student needs.
- Motivate and inspire students establishing positive and respectful working relationships, use interactive and engaging approaches to teaching, promoting timely achievement and enabling positive progression.
- Maintain effective links with employers, provide good levels of support and guidance and effective workplace training.
- Maintain up to date and accurate records of individual learning and progress through the programme, provide swift support and help provide intervention for students who start to fall behind.
- Maintain safe learning environments, effectively promote Health and Safety,
- Safeguarding and Prevent, ensuring students are aware of strategies for staying safe online.
- Ensure inclusive learning environments, effectively promote equality, diversity and inclusion and British values.
- Support students with SEND to meet their specific needs and overcome individual barriers to learning, where appropriate collaborating with learning support assistants and SENCo.
- Embed English, maths and ICT in vocational sessions and make effective use of initial and diagnostic assessment to support student progression up to and including Level 2 functional skills
- Contribute to and participate in quality improvement activities.
- Take responsibility for keeping up to date with appropriate sector and educational developments, including industrial updates and participate in appropriate training and development activities that support your p