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Life Skills Tutor - SEN Employability & Personal and Social Development

Life Skills Tutor - SEN Employability & Personal and Social Development

Posted 17 August by TCHC Group ltd
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Are you an inspiring educator with a real passion for creating engaging and creative sessions and looking for a rewarding new challenge? Are you eager to make a difference in the lives of young people by providing them with enriching knowledge and experiences?

If yes read on……

As an SEN tutor for employability, personal development and life skills, you will be responsible for planning, teaching, and monitoring your learners progress through their journey enabling learners with learning differences to develop their confidence and skills for life and work. You will plan the curriculum with your colleagues ensuring the qualifications and enrichment activities are of quality enabling learners to be successful. Working with individuals who may present challenges, your delivery will be creative and engaging to ensure individuals achieve their aims in all subjects and most of all are able to progress to improved opportunities.

Job Title

SEN Employability & Personal and Social Development/Life Skills Tutor

Location:

Basildon - Southgate

Working Hours:

8.30 am to 5.00 pm, Monday to Friday, 1-hour lunch, 37.5 hours per week

(FT or Term Time Option available)

Contract Type:

Permanent

Reports to:

Centre Manager

Salary Band:

Unqualified £23,000 - £26,000, Qualified £27,000 - £30,000 per annum

What are we looking for?

Qualifications & Experience:

  • Qualified to PTLLS/DTLLS/Cert Ed/ PGCE (Essential) (or willing to work towards a teaching qualification)
  • SEN qualifications (essential)
  • Assessor qualification
  • GCSE (or equivalent L2 Functional skills) in English and maths at grade C/4 or above (Essential)
  • Experienced working with learners who present learning differences (Essential)
  • Confident with your delivery (Essential)
  • Knowledge of EHCP’s

If you do not currently hold a teaching or assessing qualification, we are able to support you through the appropriate qualifications or assessments.

Main Tasks & Responsibilities

Teaching, Learning and assessment

  • Plan, prepare and teach lessons on personal, social and development including life skills.
  • Create engaging schemes of work that demonstrate sequencing of learning and progression.
  • Create engaging lessons that are full of learning and development.
  • Plan for learners needs through use of initial assessment, previous learning and EHCP’s
  • Differentiate lesson plans and resources in line with learner needs as outlined in EHCP documents or through observations
  • Track progress of learners using appropriate and provided tracking systems
  • Provide and deliver engaging sessions meeting the individual needs of all learners
  • Plan and develop SMART-appropriate learning plans for individual learners alongside monitoring their EHCP outcomes.
  • Monitor and assess learner progress ensuring timely achievements through the year, record and report the development, progress, and attainment of students in accordance with TCHC’s assessment policies and in line with the principles of assessment for Learning.
  • Make use of current technology to enhance teaching and learning.
  • conduct pastoral responsibilities as required
  • Conduct 1:1 progress review of qualifications and personal skills
  • Manage any behaviour issues that arise in line with TCHC policy, with support from the Centre Manager
  • Implement TCHC’s inclusion and equal opportunity policies.
  • Ensure that learning support assistants and visiting speakers are used effectively in the learning environment.
  • Organise and implement trips and events for learning
  • Provide appropriate encouragement, guidance, and support to learners to help them progress
  • Participate in events/open days as required
  • Support for absent colleagues as required
  • Participate in OFSTED inspections as required

Monitoring and Continual Improvement

  • Follow the education inspection framework.
  • Undertake regular CPD and record it using company documents.
  • Undertake qualifications where suitable as part of your own learning and development.
  • Take proactive approaches to ensure Safeguarding and Prevent is embedded into the delivery and ensure issues are raised accordingly, in line with TCHC’s Safeguarding Policy using the appropriate recording and reporting tools.
  • Prepare for and attend monthly curriculum review meetings with your centre manager
  • Prepare for and attend standardisation meetings as instructed by Quality Assurance
  • Ongoing management and administration tasks relating to TCHC systems, including but not limited to session planning, logging results and providing feedback to learners
  • Work alongside the Quality team to ensure that delivery meets high expectations
  • Ensure any complaints are raised accordingly in line with TCHC’s Complaints Policy
  • Be a reflective practitioner, evaluating and improving your own practice in order to take teaching and learning forward as well as ensuring learner success and progress

Rewards for your hard work

For us here at TCHC reward means far more than just pay. Our generous and competitive benefits package includes:

  • Annual leave up to 25 days plus 8 public Bank Holiday
  • We operate a Christmas and New Year shutdown period in which you will receive additional 3 days of leave at full pay to cover this closure period after 1 year service.
  • When your birthday falls on a working day you will receive this day off at full pay.
  • Sickness’ pay allowance after the probationary period.
  • Pension scheme after 3 months you have been employed with us
  • Bupa Cash Plan, level 1 paid by the company after the probationary period.
  • Employee Assistance Programme to access help and support 24 hours a day every day of the year for immediate family (eligibility applies)
  • Reimbursement of travel expenses

Required skills

  • PTLLS
  • cert ed

Reference: 53326534

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