Functional Skills Maths and English Tutor

The Role

We are excited to be recruiting the very first Tutors for HMP Millsike, a brand-new prison estate near York. This unique opportunity allows you to be among the first educators to shape and deliver impactful learning from Spring 2025 onward.

We are seeking a dynamic, creative, and passionate Maths & English Tutor to deliver City & Guilds Functional Skills qualifications in maths and English from Entry 1 to Level 2 to a class size of 12 PCoSO learners. In this role you will play a key role in supporting prisoners' educational development, tailoring lessons to individual learner needs, and helping them progress towards their long-term employment goals.

You’ll work with a diverse group of learners, including those with neurodiverse needs, using innovative and engaging methods to ensure maths and literacy are both relevant and functional in prison and beyond. Key responsibilities include creating individual learning plans, delivering comprehensive lesson plans, and preparing learners for exams, with a focus on reading for pleasure to support those with low literacy skills.

This role also embraces a restorative practice approach to learning and development, offering you an excellent opportunity to inspire a classroom of eager learners

Key Responsibilities:

• Support learners in building foundational numeracy skills.
• Enhance learners' reading, writing, and communication abilities.
• Teach core topics such as fractions, percentages, and problem-solving.
• Identify learners needing additional support and implement creative strategies for improvement.
• Deliver engaging sessions that boost confidence and skills, linking personal development to long-term employment goals.

Requirements:

• Maths & English Level 3
• A full teaching qualification at Level 5 or above (or equivalent) is highly desirable.
• A passion for motivating and leading in a classroom environment.
• Experience in planning and delivering programs to a classroom.
• A proactive approach, with a passion for helping new learners achieve long-term goals.
• Resilience and positivity, with the ability to handle challenging situations constructively.

Working Hours:This is a full-time role, 38.5 hours per week, with the following schedule:

• Four days per week: 8:00 AM to 5:30 PM
• One half-day per week: either 8:00 AM to 12:30 PM or 1:00 PM to 5:30 PM

Who We Are

Here are PeoplePlus, we are committed to transforming the lives of people with convictions through our work in prisons. 

Our services have been designed to tackle the underlying causes of offending behaviour so people can make positive changes to their lives. 

With more than 500 people working to support people with convictions in custody and in the community, we bring passion, experience and innovation to public sector rehabilitation services. 

We also work with specialist partner organisations to help people move away from their past and look forward to a brighter future. 

All of our services are designed in partnership with the people who we’re trying to help and away from our direct work with people serving their sentences, we’re working hard to change attitudes towards people who can often be tarnished unfairly following criminal convictions. Our Social Recruitment Framework brings together organisations to tackle any pre-conceived ideas about hiring people who have previously been involved in crime. 

We also work with employers on the Ban the Box initiative to support fair and equal recruitment processes and have engaged industry to influence our employer-led curriculum delivered to our learners. 

We are extremely proud to be a Silver accredited Investors in People organisation. This means that at PeoplePlus, the right principles are in place but more than that, it means our people and leaders are making active efforts to make sure that there’s real consistency and everyone in the organisation can feel the effects.