Fish Farm Tutor

Ruskin Mill College is the founding college of Ruskin Mill Trust. Located in the Cotswolds, the 140-acre site includes a wooded valley, a trout farm, market gardens, sustainably managed woodlands, and a biodynamic farm. Nestled in the landscape are craft workshops including pottery, forge, textiles and woodwork.

Established in 1984, Ruskin Mill Trust is an educational charity that operates in England, Scotland, and Wales. We offer exciting outdoor learning environments, utilising practical land and craft activities to support the development of work and life skills in young people with autistic spectrum conditions and other learning differences. Our research-led method, Practical Skills Therapeutic Education, is inspired by the work of Rudolf Steiner, John Ruskin, and William Morris. Working with hand, head, heart, and place, Ruskin Mill Trust helps individuals to re-imagine their potential.

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Successful applicants will be required to undergo a Disclosure and Barring Service Enhanced Level Disclosure as well as a medical check, references, evidence of qualifications, plus verification of the right to work in the UK.

Position: Fish Farm Tutor with Technician Responsibility

40 Hours per week, 52 weeks per year
Salary range: £28,350 - £32,900
This post is based at Ruskin Mill College, Nailsworth, Nr. Stroud, with occasional travel to Bristol.

An opportunity has become available to join Ruskin Mill College, Ruskin Mill Trust, as part of the committed team focusing on the holistic needs of the students. We are looking for people with great character and a desire to make a positive impact on young people’s lives, and to provide students with support and guidance to help them engage in timetabled sessions in a safe and appropriate way.

We are seeking to appoint a Fish Farm Tutor to offer specific and specialist educational support in the delivery of a therapeutic education program to a number of students using methods in line with the Trust’s principles. The post holder will be expected to embrace, articulate, and work with the Trust’s objectives, vision, values, purpose, and method, ensuring that the Trust’s paradigm of biodynamic agriculture, Anthroposophical medicine, and practical skills education, which is informed by Steiner Education, is maintained, implemented, and integrated.

No qualifications necessary as on-the-job training will be provided.

Main Duties:

• To work closely with the Fish Farm Manager in sessions to progress students towards their short, medium, and long-term outcomes;
• To assist and stand in at times for the Fish Farm Manager to manage the day-to-day running of the fish farm and fish processing and to create an appropriate learning environment to support the learning and development needs of individual students as well as groups of students.
• To be responsible for delivering teaching and training with a therapeutic and supportive approach, wherever possible linking students’ learning activities through a methodology of the Trust, Practical Skills Therapeutic Education.
• To communicate consistently and effectively with all the relevant teams throughout the provision in order to contribute to each student’s study programme, curriculum, and progression towards outcomes.
• To ensure that session planning and the development of schemes of work (SOWs) embed the interconnectedness of their craft within the provision as well as the social enterprise.
• To take an active role in maintaining, improving, and understanding the Fish Farm biodynamic organism including the flow forms and our fish farming methods.
• To instil enthusiasm and enjoyment into the learning process in such a way that can lead to increased self-esteem and enhanced engagement in learning.

Working at Ruskin Mill Trust is incredibly rewarding; we offer competitive salaries and holiday allowances, an auto-enrolment pension scheme with a salary sacrifice option, a health cash plan, and an employee assistance programme via Medicash.

In addition, staff receive valuable training opportunities including an in-depth interactive induction to enable our new team members to experience our Practical Skills Therapeutic Education (PSTE) curriculum and also opportunities for further training and academic research including our own MSc in Practical Skills Therapeutic Education.

Full details of our benefits can be viewed on www.rmt.org/careers.

A completed application is required for consideration of this role, please visit https://rmt.org/careers/.

For a discussion about the role please contact Ryan.Banks@rmt.org.