Tutor
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- careers.growthco.uk
Description
The Growth Company (GC) Education and Skills team have an exciting new opportunity for a Tutor to develop, promote, deliver, and assess training in order to maximise learning outcomes for students.
As one of the largest providers of skills and training in the UK, we are dedicated to supporting businesses and individuals with apprenticeships, higher education, and commercial training. We help people to develop their skills across a diverse range of sectors and levels, with our work with leading businesses to ensure our curriculum boosts the career prospects of individuals and productivity of businesses.
Key Responsibilities:
- Carry out initial and on-going assessment to ensure students are on the right programme and receiving the right level of support.
- Plan & design appropriate training programmes (including development of schemes of work, lesson plans,), taking account of individual requirements to ensure differentiation of learning.
- Adopt effective use of new technologies including development of learning programmes on SoL-VE and use of webinars/Skype etc to meet market demands and enhance the learning experience for students.
- Deliver high quality, engaging training to encourage learners to attend, stay on programme and achieve.
- Manage the safe evacuation of students in the event of fire or other emergency, following agreed company procedures and ensure that health and safety procedures are followed at all times.
- Where appropriate, prepare students to successfully undertake assignments or sit tests/exams in order to maintain high success rates.
- Mark/assess students’ work, provide structured feedback and set development objectives for students.
- Act as Programme Leader for specific awards with responsibility for admissions, the co-ordination of tutor resource, representation at exam boards, uploading of marks and programme evaluation (HE tutors only).
About you:
- IT skills including the ability to use technology to support learning delivery.
- Motivating and inspiring.
- Flexible approach.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Ability to plan and organise workload effectively.
- PGCE, PGDE, Cert Ed, DTLLS (and subject specialisms where necessary).
Skills Required:
- Experience in teaching Retrofit insulation.
- CSCS card qualification.
- Industry experience in specialist area.
- Experience of T&L quality standards especially Ofsted.
- At least 1-2 years’ teaching experience.
- Up to date knowledge of specialist subject area/professional qualifications as appropriate.
- Must hold teaching qualification.
- Knowledge of health and safety responsibilities and procedures including emergency evacuation.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of everyone including vulnerable adults and young people, we expect all staff to share this commitment. All Education and Skills appointments will be subject to Safer Recruitment Procedures which include a DBS check and a professional social media check. These checks will be conducted by Due Diligence Limited (DDC Ltd) on behalf of GC. Please note that the successful candidate will not be required to pay for this.
If you are on the Barred List, it is against the law to apply and to be hired for a role that includes regulated activity with the concerned group.
We are committed to increasing the diversity of our workforce, we provide a guaranteed interview to applicants who meet the essential requirements for a role. This commitment applies to candidates who have a disability or are from a diverse ethnic community.
As part of our application process, you can ask to be considered under this scheme if you are from an ethnic community or have a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term negative effect on your ability to do normal daily activities. Providing that you meet the essential criteria for the role, you will then be invited for an interview. Your guaranteed interview application will only be shared with the Hiring Manager and our Internal Recruitment Team.
We are a member of the national campaign Ban the Box; this campaign aims to open opportunities for people with convictions to compete for jobs. We’re supporting the campaign by removing conviction questions at the applications stage.
GC aims to promote a culture of flexibility and agile working. Going forward we will be transitioning to a culture where full agile working will be a feature of many of our roles. We also recognise that there may be a need for more permanent flexibility in your working arrangements and in such cases, we encourage you to have these discussions at the interview stage, to enable your flexible working request to be considered as early as possible.
If you require support with the recruitment process, please contact or Internal Recruitment Team at careers@growthco.uk or call us on 0161 237 4447.
All GC colleagues will work inline with the Health & Safety at work act and the GC Health & Safety Policy.
Benefits
• Our annual leave entitlement starts at 25 days, plus bank holidays which increases with length of service with the opportunity to purchase up to 10 additional days leave each year.
• Access to counselling via our Employee Assistance Programme.
• We have 8 EDI steering group to make sure we value our differences and enable an environment of fairness, dignity and respect.
• We offer up to two days’ paid leave to volunteer at a charity of choice through our Volunteer2Day scheme.
• We offer travel loans, discounted seasonal travel tickets for public transport and a great cycle to work scheme promoting opportunities to reduce environmental pollution and a healthier lifestyle.
• We have an enhanced learning and development offer for all staff and managers with opportunities for mentoring, undertaking apprenticeships and continuous professional development.
• Paid for eye test and contributions towards glasses for VDU users, helping improve overall health and wellbeing in the workplace.
