Functional Skills Tutor

**Job Title: Tutor**

**Hours: Full-time (37.5 hours per week) and Part-time available**

**Salary: £21,255-£26,500 per annum/pro rata**

**Based in Worthing and Bognor Regis, West Sussex**

**As Functional Skills Tutor, you will be responsible for teaching Functional Skills Maths/English and Pre-Vocational Qualifications to all students.**

The job specifics are:
**Delivery**
- Participate in the initial assessment, enrolment and induction of new learners
- Develop individual learning plans, agreeing relevant and challenging learning goals and targets with learners
- Plan and deliver lessons, workshops and activities that inspire and challenge all learners and meet their different needs, and that are aligned with qualification and internal frameworks
- Support learners to achieve their learning goals, both in and between lessons
- Effectively manage behaviour during lessons, workshops and activities
- Participate in organising, supporting and leading work experience opportunities
- Regularly review progress with learners related to their qualification, personal, social and employability skills targets
- Identify learners’ support and additional learning needs and be proactive in providing effective support, including making reasonable adjustments for learners with special educational needs and/or behavioural, emotional and social needs
- Invigilate exams, undertake formal assessments, and complete all associated administration
- Undertake assessment and/or moderation of exams for specified qualifications
- Support other team members, including covering classes and sharing resources as required
- Liaise with learners’ guardians and other professionals regarding progress, as appropriate
- Promote equality, raise awareness of diversity and tackle discrimination, victimisation, harassment, stereotyping, radicalisation and bullying within the classroom and learning centre
- Prepare for and participate in PEPs where required

**Quality**
- Be proactive in ensuring all learners achieve qualifications within agreed timescales
- Monitor, and implement interventions to improve, learner attendance, retention, participation and progress
- Achieve minimum key performance indicator targets as determined by managers
- Remain abreast of quality standards expected within the sector, including Ofsted’s FE and Skills framework
- Deliver high quality lessons, workshops and activities, as per the quality standards and criteria of Ofsted, funding bodies, sector bodies and asphaleia
- Be graded at least ‘good’ during formal observation cycles
- Regularly record feedback about learners on individual learning plans
- Develop high quality resources to enable successful delivery of learning programmes and qualifications
- Manage lessons to enable learners to provide feedback on their own learning
- Maintain clear, concise, factual, accurate and timely records
- Set a good example in terms of dress, punctuality and attendance
- Be proactive in matters relating to health and safety, child protection and safeguarding, reporting any concerns appropriately
- Regularly review learner feedback
- Participate in the annual self-assessment process as requested

**Development**
- Participate fully in meetings and discussions relating to development
- Participate in curriculum development and implementation of new qualifications, projects, approaches, processes and working practices, as directed by manager
- Be proactive in leading your own continual professional development, and participate in development opportunities aligned with your personal development plan
- Participate in internal learning forums and be proactive in sharing good practice with colleagues
- Participate in marketing and promotional activities as directed by managers, such as open days, attending external events and writing blog stories

**Person specification**

**Essential**
- Relevant Cert Ed or appropriate Basic Skills Teaching Qualification eg. C&G
- Ability to teach across a range of pre-vocational qualifications up to Level 2
- Able to develop and track learners progress through individual learning plans
- Understands the importance of and is able to meet targets for learner retention and achievement
- Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team
- Technical skills including proficiency with Microsoft Office
- Ability to maintain accurate records and to follow agreed procedures

**Desirable**
- Up to date awareness of national developments in Further Education
- Experience of working on a roll on-roll off programme
- A flexible approach

**Safeguarding**
- **The asphaleia Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults.**_
- **Successful applicants are recruited according to safer recruitment practices and required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure via the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and other vetting checks**_
- **asphaleia is an equal opportunities employer.**_
- **At asp