Functional Skills Tutor

**Salary**:
Salary of £29,992.67

**Job type**:
Full Time, Permanent

11 March 2025

**Job overview**:
**What we are offering**
- Salary of £29,992.67
- Permanent and full-time position
- 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday
- Site-based role at HMP Peterborough.
- Please see attached benefits guide for everything we have to offer
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**Your Role as a Function Skills Tutor**

Are you passionate about education and rehabilitation? We are seeking a dedicated Functional Skills Tutor to join our team at HMP & YOI Peterborough. This is an opportunity to make a real difference by supporting learners to increase their basic education levels and gain recognised qualifications in English and/or maths, up to City & Guilds Level 2.

You will be responsible for planning, developing, and delivering engaging and innovative lessons tailored to meet the diverse needs of learners. As part of a self-directed learning approach, you will play a key role in empowering prisoners to develop their skills, confidence, and independence. Your work will directly contribute to reducing re-offending rates by increasing employability and aiding successful reintegration into the community.

Working closely with the Education, Skills and Work Manager and Hub Leaders, you will monitor attendance, track learner progress, and provide constructive feedback to support achievement. You will also collaborate with other education and prison staff to ensure a cohesive and inclusive learning environment. Participation in department events and CPD activities will also be an integral part of the role.
- Please see the attached job description for a more detailed list of the main responsibilities._
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**Essential**:

- Full teaching qualification (Minimum of CTLLS) or PGCE (or working towards)
- Experience delivering functional skills in a classroom setting
- A strong interest in the rehabilitation and resettlement of offenders
- Excellent communication skills, both spoken and written
- A flexible and responsive attitude to teaching and learning
- Self-motivation and a proactive, dynamic approach
- Commitment to promoting equal opportunities and inclusivity

**Desirable**:

- Assessor or Internal Verifier (IV) qualification
- Experience working within a prison or secure environment
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**Why join us?**

At Sodexo, our purpose is to create a better everyday for everyone to build a better life for all. As the global leader in services that improve the Quality of Life, we operate in 55 countries, serving over 100 million consumers each day through our unique combination of On-Site Food and FM Services, Benefits & Rewards Services and Personal & Home Services.

To be considered for an interview you must:

- have a disability- defined by the Equality Act 2010

- meet all of the qualifications, skills or experience defined as essential.

**About**HMP & YOI Peterborough**:
**HMP & YOI Peterborough**
- Saville Road, Westfield
- Peterborough
- PE3 7PD
- United Kingdom

+44 1733 217500

Sodexo Justice Services - formerly Kalyx - runs rehabilitative justice services which change lives for the better at more than 120 sites across the world, including the full operation of four prisons in the UK.

Sodexo Justice Services has been operating since 1993, and currently provides justice services to over 30,000 offenders worldwide at any one time. We have a reputation for delivering ethical, innovative, rehabilitative and outstanding justice facilities and services, which comprehensively address our clients' requirements.

Our work around the world gives us unparalleled access to knowledge, expertise and best practice, which we share across our different operations. This helps us follow our vision to be the organisation of choice in providing both custodial and community based justice services.

The future for criminal justice is a challenging one. In reducing crime levels and reoffending rates, governments face larger obstacles now than they have for over a decade.

Sodexo Justice Services is confident of rising to this challenge. With our unrivalled operational excellence, experience, expertise, innovations, ethical principles, beliefs and values, we look forward to continuing to provide value for money solutions in both the custodial and community environments which help change lives for the better and prevent tomorrow's victims.