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Our employment coaches have two key skills – the ability to deliver 1-2-1 support to help people plan and reach their goals, and the ability to teach groups to help people gain skills to achieve their goals. Each role is 50/50 to ensure we continue to support people and deliver training that’s fit for people’s aspirations.
Every coach has a core subject specialism they can teach and are qualified to deliver through numerous levels so we can offer progression to our customers. Additionally, all deliver a wide and varied curriculum around life skills, enrichment, wellbeing and employability – all core to our curriculum.
As an Employability Tutor, a typical day might include:
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Carrying out an initial assessment, using our suite of assessment tools including skills Builder and Unifrog, to help them make informed decisions.
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Delivery of a rich employability programme, including NCFE qualifications and external enrichment activities/visits.
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Working alongside the Employability Lead to ensure quality throughout the learners programme.
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Managing a learners for their whole journey with us – ensuring attendance, achievement and progression.
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reviewing their progress and helping them succeed through regular contact, proactive engagement and active planning of interventions.
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Building relationships with a wide range of other local support services to ensure we can offer a full and holistic package of support, meeting all participant and EHCP needs.
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Achieving targets to get people into work and support them and employers in
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Completing learner records and monitoring reports in line with the programme, ensuring evidence is collated and stored in line with requirements.
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Contributing to curriculum development across your subject areas of expertise, bringing innovation, energy and excitement to both the subject matter and our style of teaching to help our learners thrive.
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Being responsible for Quality Assurance of your teaching to ensure our learners receive the best service possible, welcoming people from across the team into the teaching setting to observe learning, get involved and help learners achieve.
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Planning, preparing, delivering and evaluating all the sessions and courses you deliver
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Preparing plans, schemes of work and learning materials for each session, making them available for monitoring or lesson observation visits and maintaining them.
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Supporting the delivery of events, workshops, and activities to increase opportunities for our learners.
The must haves:
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A willingness and ability to deliver a range of courses beyond your primary area of expertise with an enthusiasm to develop your skills to adapt our delivery to the needs of our learners.
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An understanding of/experience working with SEND learners
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Qualification in Mentoring, Advice and Guidance or similar
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Are comfortable with, and can deliver, both 1-2-1 and group sessions in their role.
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L3 Award in Education and Training (formerly PTLLS) or Teaching qualification, and/or willingness to undergo further training to achieve this.
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An understanding of the principles underpinning teaching young people, i.e., planning, delivery, assessment and evaluation of learning.
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A genuine commitment to the personal and occupational success of learners
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Knowledge funded projects including European social funded projects.
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Ability to work as a team, under pressure and in a fast-paced environment.
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A good understanding of the barriers faced by unemployed and inactive people, and the solutions that may be able to benefit them.
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Ability to work collaboratively with others, whether in the same team or external support providers.
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You’re a positive, energised and enthusiastic person, with a real zest for helping others.
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Engaging and supporting people is what gets you up every day
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Nothing makes you happier than seeing someone progress, knowing you helped them get there.
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Resilience. Working in the education, support and employment sectors is a challenging but rewarding career. You’ll be helping to bring real change to peoples’ lives.
The added extras:
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Qualifications in your subject specialism (to at least Level 3 equivalent), or an in-depth knowledge and substantial experience in the subject area.
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Awareness of the needs of underachieving and disengaged young people
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Ability to deal with challenging behaviour at times.
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An understanding of the different local services available for customers
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You’re interested in supporting the wider team with our wellbeing activities, learning opportunities or employment support – and have some skills to offer in this area.
You’ll be adept at change, having got hands-on experience living and breathing new ways of working and knowing how to bring your colleagues along for the experience.
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As soon as a suitable candidate is found for this role we reserve the right to close the job advert ahead of the closing date, so please do not delay in submitting your application.As part of our commitment to safeguarding there will be numerous safeguarding checks that form part of the recruitment process including an Enhanced DBS check and you will be required to complete a self declaration form at interview stage. Please note this role is also exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and it is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from regulated activity.
Acis are committed to equality and diversity, are a proud member of disability confident and welcome applications from any applicant who feel they hold the essential skills to fulfil the role. We recognise that people need flexibility in their role and we’re happy to discuss flexible working options with the successful candidate in addition to any aid with interviewing that you might need
