Tutor

The JHF Youth Charity is a communityfocused not for profit organisation that aims to inspire and empower young lives through the strength of positive relationships. We have been working within North Somerset and surrounding areas for 10 years and have built up an excellent reputation for delivering high quality childcentred bespoke support.

Tasks

We are looking for parttime Tutors in and around North Somerset with the ability to teach GCSE English Maths and/or Science.

If you feel you can tutor in another subject/area/level then please also contact us for possible opportunities.

Primary Purpose of Job:

To provide bespoke tutoring to young people aged between 718 years old

Hours:

Each placement will be between 210 hours across the week. Timings are negotiable. Once agreed placements take place at a consistent time each week termtime only.

Contract: Self Employed

Hourly Rate: 28.36

Person Specification

You will be expected to plan and deliver a customised tutoring programme to the young people assigned to you. You will have an adaptable and flexible approach and be able to cater to each individual young persons special educational needs as set out in their EHCP.

Tutoring on a one to one basis you will need to work creatively and intuitively be empathetic to the young persons requirements and provide professional and reliable support.

The young people we typically work with have an EHCP often have social and emotional health needs and are likely to not be attending school. Using their ECHP outcomes you will provide a learning pathway that the young person can access to support their transition back to an educational setting and/or achieve qualifications as appropriate.

The right candidate will be working to a high professional standard supporting young people to engage in education and build resilience.

Requirements

Essential

• Teaching qualification such as PGCE QTS or equivalent
• Ability to quickly build positive relationships with young people and their families
• An empathetic approach to learning with the ability to boost a students confidence and selfesteem with an ambition for young people to reach their potential
• Commitment reliability honesty and lots of patience
• Excellent communication
• Ability to extensively differentiate planning and teaching
• A valid enhanced DBS check (or an existing DBS on the update service)
• Clear understanding of safeguarding and child protection legislation
• Experience working with young people with an EHCP
• Valid UK drivers licence and use of a car for work
• Right to live and work within the UK

Specific Responsibilities

• Planning differentiated tutoring sessions dependant on the young persons needs
• Preparing students for exams or tests
• Support young people to achieve their targets set out in their EHCP
• Timely submission (within 24 hours) of tutoring session summary reports
• Maintaining uptodate subject knowledge
• Marking and assessing work and homework regularly providing constructive feedback to students
• Maintaining student attendance and progress records
• Displaying professionalism at all times representing the aims of the charity
• Practical knowledge of safeguarding and child protection

Benefits

Flexible working hours term time only and casual dress code.

If you are interested in this role then please provide your email address so that an application form can be forwarded to you. We look forward to hearing from you.

The JHF is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We particularly welcome applications from underrepresented groups including ethnicity gender transgender age disability sexual orientation or religion.

This post is subject to two satisfactory reference checks and DBS enhanced disclosure as well as the completion of minimum standards training completion (Safeguarding Prevent and GDPR). Please do not hesitate to contact the JHF should you wish to discuss further.

Thank you for your interest in joining the JHF Youth Charity in our mission to inspire and empower young lives.