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This role is all about helping others to develop by delivering engaging courses and qualifications. Being a tutor is a key role in providing our customers with the skills, qualifications and confidence to achieve their personal and career goals. We deliver services for the Department for Work and Pensions, Department for Education, ESFA, NHS and many local authorities. We also deliver community projects for Children in Need, The National Lottery, Shine and more.
It’s an exciting time to join us. We have big ambitions to grow to provide space and support to help people thrive – through gaining confidence, progress into school, college, university, or work – whatever the goal. And have exciting plans in place to get there.
As a English Tutor, a typical day might include:
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Delivering English GCSE and Functional Skills to our Flare learners (16-18y/o) and to our adult learners
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Delivering community English based courses to our adult learners to re-engage people back into English
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Developing skills and expertise within your area of specialism, to offer more for our learners.
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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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Owning your learners end to end – ensuring attendance, achievement and progression, in all courses and programmes. This may include 1-2-1 sessions with those learners who need additional support.
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Supporting recruitment across all our programmes, not just the courses you deliver, working with the engagement team to ensure progression targets are met following completion on your course.
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Being responsible for Quality Assurance of your teaching to ensure our customers receive the best service possible.
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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 courses you lead.
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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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Completing learner records and monitoring reports in line with programme requirements, marking and assessing learners’ work, monitoring their progress to ensure our learners are prepared for exams and/or course accreditation.
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developing links with partners and employers in order to develop new opportunities for learners
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identifying progression opportunities - further learning, apprenticeships or employment for all learners
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Ensuring that learners complete all admin documentation including enrolment forms and learner feedback.
What we need to consider your application:
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Teaching qualification appropriate for working in Post 16 Sector and Adult Learning Sector, and/or willingness to undergo further training – preferably PGCE/Cert Ed/QTS
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L3 Award in Education and Training (formerly PTLLS) or the equivalent would be considered an advantage for an applicant without a formal qualification.
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English qualification (to at least Level 4 equivalent), or an in-depth knowledge and substantial experience in the subject area.
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Full awareness of the needs of underachieving and disengaged young people and to develop strategies to engage them
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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 needs of our learners.
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Experience of teaching/training or working with groups of adults in appropriate field.
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An understanding of the principles underpinning teaching adults, i.e. planning, delivery, assessment and evaluation of learning.
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An awareness of different learning strategies and teaching methods suitable for teaching a diverse range of abilities.
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Effective oral and written communication, numeracy and interpersonal qualifications & skills to communicate effectively with staff and learners alike
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A commitment and ability to comply with Equality & Diversity, Health & Safety policies, etc and our safer recruitment approach.
What will make you stand out form the crowd, but is not essential:
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Ability to deal with challenging behaviour at times
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Experience in delivering externally funded contract provision e.g. local authority, Lottery, ESF, ESFA, DWP.
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Qualification in Mentoring, Advice and Guidance or similar
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Any level or experience in a support role or in Information, Advice and Guidance
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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
Being part of the Acis team, you’ll get:
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Generous holiday entitlement – 25 days annual leave every year plus bank holidays
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Pension contributions up to 4%
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The opportunity to undertake professional training, funded by us.
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One days paid leave a year for volunteering work (in addition to your Annual leave entitlement)
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Staff benefits with Paycare – A health and benefits scheme giving you support and contributions towards various health benefits such as counselling, eye tests, vaccinations and much more
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Benefits with Acis Perkz – a discount scheme giving you savings off hundreds of schemes including discounts on your coffee, weekly shop, days out and much more!
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Employee recognition scheme, where we celebrate and award our Stars within Acis, including gift vouchers
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Long service awards for our loyal employees
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Cycle to work scheme
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Employee Assistance Programme to give you confidential advice and support, when you need it
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Professional membership subscription to support your continuous professional development
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Death in service benefit aligned to our pension scheme
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
