Due to the growth of our curriculum offer, you'll join our Secure and Specialist Education Service as a Learning and Skills Tutor within our provision at Swanwick Lodge Secure Children's Home. In this challenging, yet highly rewarding and meaningful role, you'll work as part of a welcoming and highly supportive multidisciplinary team, helping to design and deliver tailored education programmes for young people who may have experienced significant disruption to their education.
With a maximum of 10 young people in our home, and with learning sessions typically delivered in very small groups often around two at a time, you'll have the opportunity to build strong, positive relationships and tailor learning to individual needs. Our curriculum is broad and flexible, ranging from AQA Unit Awards and Entry Level qualifications through to Functional Skills and GCSE support. Teaching approaches are creative and responsive, with lessons often adapted in real time to maximise engagement, participation, and achievement.
Unlike a mainstream setting, education within a secure children's home is highly personalised and child-centred, placing equal importance on academic progress, emotional wellbeing, personal development, and engagement. You'll support young people who may have experienced trauma and who often present with social, emotional and mental health needs, SEND requirements, and other complex challenges, making a meaningful difference to some of the most vulnerable children in our care.
The role is worked year-round across 5 days a week, with typical hours of 8:30am to 4:30pm. Learner sessions are usually delivered between 9:30am and 3:00pm, with dedicated time for planning, administration, handovers, and collaborative working at the start and end of the day.
As an engaging and committed tutor, with strong experience supporting vulnerable learners and those with additional needs, you'll be motivated by the opportunity to positively impact young people's futures through education.
