Maths Tutor

National Skills Agency; Cambridgeshire and Peterborough; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading educational consultancy is seeking a passionate Maths Functional Skills Tutor to support learners in achieving their Functional Skills qualifications. This role involves planning and teaching the curriculum, managing assessments, and providing both group and one-on-one support. Ideal candidates will have relevant teaching qualifications or be willing to acquire them, along with GCSEs in English and maths. The position offers career progression within the education sector, emphasizing successful learner outcomes.

Qualifications

• Must hold or be supported to achieve teaching qualifications.
• Experience in education and training delivery.
• Knowledge of safeguarding policies.

Responsibilities

• Plan and deliver Functional Skills lessons.
• Create schemes of work for learners.
• Manage assessments and records of progress.

Skills

Planning and teaching Functional Skills curriculum

Creating innovative lesson plans

Diagnostic testing

Behaviour management

One-on-one support

Education

DTLLS/Cert Ed/PGCE or equivalent (desirable)

PTLLS AET/CTLLS or equivalent

GCSE in English and maths at grade C or above (essential)

Job description

Our client is looking for a passionate individual to support learners through the delivery of Functional Skills who is looking for a career progression in education. If you don't currently hold a teaching or assessing qualification, they are able to support you through the appropriate qualifications and assessments.

As a Maths Functional Skills Tutor, you will be responsible for planning and teaching the Functional Skills curriculum, as well as differentiation, and will be required to ensure work is marked, records are kept, and assessment is on-going, ensuring all learners are ready for exams and maintaining a high level of successful pass rates.

Main Tasks & Responsibilities

• Create effective schemes of works that clearly supports the learning process of individuals
• Prepare and develop innovative lesson plans, designing and delivering group activities
• Diagnose learner s literacy, numeracy and ICT needs and requirements by using various diagnostic testing and mock tests

• Deliver training to individuals and groups following the programme curriculum, setting objectives and targets for achievement
• Provide one to one support to learners where necessary
• Manage small groups of learners
• Provide appropriate encouragement, guidance, and support to learners to help them progress
• Manage any behaviour issues that arise, with support from the centre manager
• Prepare and submit up to date assessments of learners, across all relevant activities
• Monitor and maintain appropriate paperwork and records of progress and to report all cases of learner sickness and absence
• Complete review paperwork and record learners' progress

• Follow the education inspection framework.
• Undertake regular CPD and record it using company documents.
• Undertake qualifications where suitable as part of your own learning and development.
• Take proactive approaches to ensure Safeguarding and Prevent is embedded into the delivery and ensure issues are raised accordingly, in line with Safeguarding Policy using the appropriate recording and reporting tools.
• Prepare for and attend monthly caseload review meetings with your line manager
• Prepare for and attend standardisation meetings as instructed by Quality Assurance
• Ongoing management and administration tasks relating to the CRM and ePortfolio systems, including but not limited to session planning, logging results and providing feedback to learners

• Liaise with relevant team members to ensure learners achieve their targets and progress into appropriate outcomes
• Establish, develop and maintain effective working relationships with other external organisations involved with the service and learners
• Attend monthly team meetings with line manager to discuss feedback

Qualifications

• Qualified to DTLLS/Cert Ed/ PGCE (or equivalent), (desirable)
• Qualified to PTLLS AET/ CTLLS (or equivalent)
• Assessor qualifications (desirable)
• GCSE (or equivalent) in English and maths at grade C or above, essential

National Skills Agency Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy and is an Equal Opportunities employer we welcome applicants from all backgrounds.