English & Maths Tutors – Functional Skills: Key Stage 3

£14.33 to £16.46 – 9.30am – 3.00pm/3.30pm – 27.5/30 hours per week

230 Days + Private Medical + Term-time Contract

Bradford City Centre

Pipeline Productions is a dedicated alternative provision for young people aged 11 - 16 who, for many reasons, have become disengaged from mainstream education. At Pipeline we specialise in Arts and Sports. We are now looking to appoint an experienced and passionate English & Maths Tutors in functional skills to our dedicated and growing team, who can teach our Key Stage 3 pupils.

Key Responsibilities

• Teaching pupils Maths and English functional skills
• Working through the course specification and delivery guide ensuring that pupils complete the course
• Working closely with the Internal Quality Assurance Manager & Curriculum Coordinator who will support you throughout the delivery of the course, ensuring that you complete all the relevant administrative elements for IQA reviews such as the evidence of tracking of learners and evidence of the learners work fully marked
• Preparing lesson plans, year plans and schemes of work for the delivery of the course, and ensure that these are on track for learners to progress
• You will approach the pupils in an engaging and motivating way, and will use various innovative and interesting methods of assessment in order to do this

You will receive support from the Internal Quality Assurance Manager who oversees the qualifications, which will include regular meetings, training and support and guidance from other team members who also deliver the courses with a similar grading criteria.

You will receive training on all of the qualification regulations that must be adhered to in order to teach the course.

Safeguarding and the wellbeing of our pupils is of the utmost priority. The successful candidate must actively and effectively safeguard all of our pupils to keep them safe from harm. 

The successful candidate will also supervise pupils whilst they are on break and lunch, make sure that pupils are safeguarded in these times and report any concerns to the DSL on site. There will be other duties included. 

Essential Skills & Experience

• GCSE C or above in Maths and English
• Experience of teaching Maths and English
• A natural ability to engage and motivate young people with multiple and complex needs
• A knowledge of the many barriers to learning that affect disengaged and disaffected young people
• A working knowledge of safeguarding policies and practices in an education setting
• A knowledge of the risks that many disengaged and disaffected young people experience, including CSE and CCE
• A knowledge of the risks of young people online and of keeping safe

 Desirable Skills & Experience

• A proven track record of working with young people, preferably in an education or alternative provision capacity with experience of working with young people in a teaching/tutoring capacity
• A recognised assessor qualification such as TAQA online training, A1 Assessor Award, L3 Assessor award or CAVA (Certificate Assessing Vocational Achievement) 
• MAPA or Team Teach trained 
• Autism Awareness training
• A knowledge of JCQ examination regulations 
• Invigilation training 
• First Aid training 

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