Overview
Skills for Life Tutor Jobs in Watford, England, United Kingdom at TCHC Group
Title: Skills for Life Tutor
Company: TCHC Group
Location: Watford, England, United Kingdom
What are we looking for?
TCHC is looking for passionate and creative tutor to develop our SEND learners in the areas of life skills and work skills. These two areas form part of their 16-19 study programme that enables them to gain the skills, experience, and qualifications to progress.
As a life/work skills tutor, you will be responsible for planning, teaching and organising events and trips that enable SEND learners 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. You will be supported by a Centre manger and Quality Team who is responsible for leading the team to drive up quality and promoting an ethos of continuous improvement.
This role would require face to face delivery and the organising of events and trips to ensure learners gain insight and new experienced that enable them to learn and increase their skills..
Qualifications & Experience
- Qualified to PTLLS/DTLLS/Cert Ed/ PGCE (Essential) (or willing to work towards a teaching qualification)
- SEN qualifications (desirable)
- Experience of teaching learners with various abilities or learning needs (Essential)
- Assessor qualification
- GCSE in English and maths at grade C/4 or above, or Functional skills Level 2 (Essential)
- Experienced working with learners who present learning differences (Essential)
- Confident with your delivery (Essential)
- Knowledge of EHCPs (desirable)
As a tutor teaching skills for life, you will be responsible for the quality of education through your planning and teaching of the subject area, as well as differentiating your lesson activities and resources. You will be required to ensure work is marked, records are kept, and assessment is ongoing. You will need to ensure all learners are on track throughout the year, preparing a portfolio of work to demonstrate how they meet assessment criteria, and maintaining a high level of successful pass rates.
Main Tasks & Responsibilities
Teaching, Learning and assessment
- Plan, prepare and teach lessons on Independence Skills and personal, social and emotional development.
- 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 the use of initial assessment, previous learning and EHCPs
- Differentiate lesson plans and resources in line with learner needs as outlined in EHCP documents or through observations
- Track the progress of learners using the 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.
- Conduct pastoral responsibilities as required
- Conduct a 1:1 progress review with your learners
- 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.
- To cover other subject areas as appropriate if required
- 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
- Participate in quality reviews as required
- Attend team meetings
Commitment to Safeguarding
TCHC is committed to Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. All staff are expected to adhere to our Safeguarding & Child Protection Policy and the safeguarding responsibilities outlined in their job description.
We conduct Safer Recruitment Checks on all staff prior to confirming a start date, in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education. An online search of information within the public domain is conducted on all candidates who are invited to interview.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974. The amendments to the ROA 1974 (Exceptions Order 1975, (amended 2013 and 2020)) provide that when applying for certain jobs and activities, certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. The MOJ’s guidance on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975 provides information about which convictions must be declared during job applications and related exceptions, and further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.
Please see our Recruitment with Safer Recruitment Policy for further information, or get in touch on 01923 698477 or [email protected]
Pre-employment checks
The company also conducts an internal online search on social media platforms in accordance with the Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. Should any pertinent information arise from this search, it will be discussed with the applicant as part of the recruitment process.
Please note that upon a successful job offer, the company performs digitalised right-to-work checks and initiates DBS applications through an external service provider. An enhanced DBS check, including the barred list, is mandatory for this role.
