Functional Skills Tutor

The Role

The role of Functional Skills Tutor is to deliver maths and English skills from entry level to Level 2 and to assist the training team to provide support for learners in preparation for entering the workplace. You will have an active role in assisting learners on training courses to help them progress into education, employment, training or volunteering. You will be responsible for teaching employability, functional skills and British values, often to challenging and disengaged young people who may have learning difficulties.

As the Functional Skills Tutor, you will support the team in ensuring the courses are run effectively and the service provided reflects the ethos of the company. You will support the team in embedding functional skills into the rest of the curriculum, and ensuring directives and policies are reflected and implemented in everyday practice. You will be accountable to the Deputy Headteacher.

Requirements 

Your normal hours of work are 37.5 per week, to be worked over 5 days. 08.30 – 16.30 Monday to Friday, term time. Full time tutors are required to be available for work for 195 days per year (directed time). In addition to your directed days, you will be required to work such reasonable additional hours as necessary to complete your tasks. Part-time Tutors are required to work a proportion of the 195 days appropriate to their contract. The hours of work you will be expected to work will be specified by the Head of College. You are entitled to a 30-minute unpaid lunch break per day.

You must have an outgoing, friendly and confident personality with a positive attitude and a passion for helping others. Our Tutors are motivational speakers, inspirers, and energisers who broaden horizons and break down barriers to progression. We have a holistic approach to training young people, helping them wherever possible with the challenges that life may throw at them, and to join our team, you would need the same outlook.

You should be experienced in teaching maths and English and any applicant should have ideas for fun engaging activities. We are looking for someone with innovative ideas that steer away from traditional teaching methods. At Liberty, we have a learner-centred approach and are looking for someone with the same philosophy.

We are a small team, with an ‘all hands on deck’ approach, so when you are not teaching, you may be asked to assist the team in other areas.