The Growth Company’s (GC) employment services has an exciting opportunity for a Tutor working on our Working Well: Support to Succeed programme.
The role will be to develop, promote, deliver, and assess a number of short interventions that address life skills, confidence, motivation, attitudes, and behaviours; and support economically inactive participants to address barriers to achievement and progression, by empowering and equipping them to be able to achieve their goals and aspirations.
We help to make a lasting difference to the lives of people throughout the North of England and beyond, by supporting individuals to gain meaningful employment.
Our highly skilled advisers and keyworkers work with a range of individuals; from people who have found themselves recently out of work, to those with complex barriers such as physical disabilities, mental ill-health, and debt.
Key Responsibilities:
- Tailor materials and training courses to support customers to make positive progressions towards their goals and aspirations.
- Establish and deliver group activities as part of participant interventions, highlighting additional 1-2-1 advice required.
- Deliver effective group sessions.
- Seek ways to continuously improve service and own performance.
- Deliver a wide range of training courses in groups.
- Ensuring accuracy of data inputting and compliance of participants records.
- Adhering to compliance and contractual requirements including within the required timescales.
- Preparing paperwork for group sessions and supporting participants in the completion of paperwork.
About You:
- Have a warm, approachable style to delivery is required to build relationships and rapport with participants.
- Motivating and Inspiring.
- Be flexible towards to location and courses delivered.
- Experience of working in a target driven environment.
- Knowledge of Matrix and Ofsted.
- Good knowledge of health and safety policies and management of duty of care to participants ensuring safeguarding and customer safety.
Requirements:
- Highly skilled in managing group settings as well as meeting quality standards.
- PTLLS/Level 3 Award in Education and Training or equivalent Relevant Teaching Qualification.
- Good knowledge of the local labour market – routes into the labour market and knowledge of progression routes including knowledge of local education, training, and specialist service provision.
- Recent experience of delivering training to participants with a wide range of needs and barriers.
- Awareness of additional learning needs such as dyslexia, dyspraxia, ESOL etc.
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 appointments will be subject to Safer Recruitment Procedures which include a DBS check. This 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.