Functional Skills Tutor

Are you passionate about working with young people?

Are you looking for a way to positively impact people’s lives?

Long Term Teachers are looking for a Functional Skills Tutor to join our education team to support students with disabilities in realising their aspirations to participate in work related activities. You will do this predominantly but not exclusively by assisting in the development of maths and English skills. This role is offering full time hours on a permannent basis.

What are we looking for?

In order to be considered for the post of Function Skills Tutor you should have previous experience of tutoring/teaching SEN students including working on functional skills and have at least a level 4 teaching qualification. As our students offer require support and encouragement you should have the ability to form excellent working relationships and be able to think creative about how best to work with the people we support. A good Functional Skills Tutor should have an understanding of Ofsted requirements and ideally have some experience of working with students with disabilities although this is not essential.

What does a Functions Skills Tutor do?

As a Functional Skills Tutor you will be supporting your students towards work, volunteering and further education opportunities and you will do this by:

·Working as part of the team to deliver ROC College programmes

·Assessing the needs of current and potential students

·Teaching either small groups of on a 1-2-1 basis

·Identifying learning and training opportunities

·Deliver sessions on not only maths and English but also life and employability skills

·Ensuring records and reports of student progress is updated

We offer:

- Competitive pay rates ranging from £83.85-£95 per day or £12.90 - £14 p/h

- Flexible working hours to fit around your personal commitments

- Guidance and mentoring from experienced educational professionals

- Opportunities for further training and career development

- Access to a variety of temporary positions within local schools

If you have a passion for education and want to make a real difference in the lives of young learners, we want to hear from you.

Working with Long Term Teachers

We are an independent agency working with Nurseries, Primary, Secondary and Special Education Schools.

LLT was founded with the aim of creating genuine, honest and straightforward service to help candidates secure their next role. We place a huge emphasis on delivering exceptional service where you will be supported, heard and valued throughout.

Your dedicated consultant will invest time to understand your experience, skill set and what your ideal role looks like. You will have frequent updates with your progress through compliance, applications for specific roles as well as receiving additional information on roles which we feel may be of interest to you.

We are proud members of REC and we have the highest standards of compliance. Working with us means you will get the very best support and guidance through the clearance process from your own specific point of contact from our in-house compliance team.

In addition you will receive:

• Guarantee Pay Scheme opportunities

• Permanent job roles

• Support and advice during the clearance and onboarding process

• Working to Agency Workers Regulations

• Interview preparation, advice and support

• Statutory employment rights such as, sick pay, holiday pay, maternity/paternity pay

• Use of PEO system which is all app based, through Fairpay you have 24/7 access to GPs for you and your immediate family, professional counseling, up to 7% cash back across 2000 stores such as Tesco and Sainsbury.