Vocational Tutor

**Location**

Rochdale

**Company**

Education and Skills

**Contract type**

Permanent/ Full
- time

**Salary**

Up to £26,000 per year

**Closing Date**

10/02/2025

**Ref No**

4472

The Growth Company (GC) Education and Skills team have an exciting new opportunity for a Vocational Tutor to develop, promote, deliver and assess training in order to maximise learning outcomes for students.

As one of the largest providers of skills and training in the UK, we are dedicated to supporting businesses and individuals with apprenticeships, higher education, and commercial training. We help people to develop their skills across a diverse range of sectors and levels, with our work with leading businesses to ensure our curriculum boosts the career prospects of individuals and productivity of businesses.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Carry out initial and on-going assessment to ensure students are on the right programme and receiving the right level of support.
- Plan & design appropriate training programmes (including development of schemes of work, lesson plans,), taking account of individual requirements to ensure differentiation of learning.
- Deliver high quality, engaging training to encourage learners to attend, stay on programme and achieve.
- Manage the safe evacuation of students in the event of fire or other emergency, following agreed company procedures and ensure that health and safety procedures are followed at all times.
- Where appropriate, prepare students to successfully undertake assignments or sit tests/exams in order to maintain high success rates.
- Mark/assess students’ work, provide structured feedback and set development objectives for students.
- Act as Programme Leader for specific awards with responsibility for admissions, the co-ordination of tutor resource, representation at exam boards, uploading of marks and programme evaluation (HE tutors only).

**About you**:

- IT skills including the ability to use technology to support learning delivery.
- Motivating and inspiring.
- Flexible approach.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Ability to plan and organise workload effectively.

**Skills Required**:

- Industry experience in specialist area.
- Experience of T&L quality standards especially Ofsted.
- At least 1-2 years’ teaching experience.
- Where appropriate, expertise in working with special needs e.g. LLDD (learners with learning difficulties and/or disabilities) and challenging behaviour).
- Must hold teaching qualification.
- Knowledge of health and safety responsibilities and procedures including emergency evacuation.

GC aims to promote a culture of flexibility and agile working. Going forward we will be transitioning to a culture where full agile working will be a feature of many of our roles. We also recognise that there may be a need for more permanent flexibility in your working arrangements and in such cases, we encourage you to have these discussions at the interview stage, to enable your flexible working request to be considered as early as possible.

All GC colleagues will work inline with the Health & Safety at work act and the GC Health & Safety Policy.