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Interim Horticulture Tutor (SEN) | Stanwell | Full Time | £24K-£32K (based on experience & qualifications)
Our client is a small, dynamic UK registered Charity, working to improve the employability of disadvantaged 16-25-year-olds through practical training in Horticulture and Catering.
This role will be extremely rewarding, you will be supporting a team of Teaching Assistants and work closely with the Head of the Department to deliver and support high-quality and interactive provision.
Please note- The successful candidate will be required to work flexible hours including occasional evenings e.g. parents’ evenings and weekends e.g. learners attending community events.
Are you the right person for the job?
- Role subject to enhanced DBS clearance
- Full clean driving licence for a minimum of three years and use of own car desirable.
- Educated to Level 2 Horticulture
- Experience of teaching young people with special educational needs or learning disabilities
- IT literate: Microsoft Word, Excel. & PowerPoint
- Ability to innovate and think creatively
- Excellent communication skills, both oral and written
- Course planning, delivery, monitoring and evaluation
- Networking and building new relationships
- Working with young people, vulnerable adults and volunteers
- Assessing Tutoring, training or teaching
Your role will include but not be limited to
- To plan, prepare and teach schemes of work to national standards and deliver individually targeted lessons. To complete planning documentation to the time schedule agreed by our Head of Education & Qualifications.
- Working with SEN young people and vulnerable adults on a one-to-one basis and in small groups of up to eight/ten, teaching and assessing Entry Level, Level 1 and Level 2 qualifications in horticulture.
- To promote the intellectual, physical and personal development of students in your tutor group including the embedding of English and Maths skills and British Values.
- To be able to tailor teaching to the differing levels of ability of individual learners in a cohort of people.
- To assess, create individual portfolios and report on learner’s development, progress and educational attainment in line with accredited course documentation.
- Working with our Internal Verifier (IV) to ensure that documentation and assessments are undertaken to Centre and qualification standards.
- To attend Progress Reviews and Interim Reviews of learners in your tutor group and provide a progress report on outcomes to the agreed time scale.
- To advise and co-operate with the Senior Managers, other tutors, the centre internal verifier and support staff on the preparation of teaching materials, schemes of work, methods of teaching and assessment and pastoral care.
- To work with colleagues to develop and implement ideas to establish the horticulture department as a Social Enterprise that will provide work experience opportunities for our young people.
- To support SEN young people to access horticulture and related work experience appropriate to the qualification they are working towards.
- To be familiar with and work to all the organisation’s Policies and Procedures.
- To work collaboratively with parents/carers to ensure a consistent approach to the delivery of programmes including; behaviour management, communication, shared targets etc.
- Ensure risk assessments are completed for activities and followed on site to ensure that learners and members of the community are safe at all times.
- To participate in 30 hours CPD per year specific to the needs of students and Green Corridor.
- To supervise, and so far as it is practicable, teach any students whose tutor is not available due to absence or annual leave.
Our client is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community, a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed. The employer invites all those from different backgrounds to apply for the advertised job posts, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation.
If you’re the ideal candidate our client is looking for, please send your CV by clicking the APPLY button
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