Trainee Functional Skills Coach

January 2025 start

Our client, a well-established and successful independent Training Provider, is seeking to expand their Tutoring teams with the appointment of a motivated Functional Skills Tutor.

It's a brilliant opportunity if you're currently in a similar role or have experience coaching or training within an education environment. This is very much online tutoring, with occasional, rare visits to learners on-site.

This is a home-based role, teaching online, covering various locations remotely, delivering Maths, English, and the occasional ICT Qualifications to the required standard and timescales, and is very much on a 1-1 basis with your learners.

This is working for an award-winning, well-established Training Provider - they have recently been awarded Sunday Times Top 100 Companies to Work in the UK, as well as Apprenticeship Provider Employer of the Year - so you're in safe hands with this new company! They value work/life balance above all else, and this is reflected in the package. You will receive, on top of your salary, 26 days holidays + stats (rising to 30 with service), a 9-5 working environment, a host of other benefits, as well as being part of a really friendly, motivated team.

The role involves:

1. Responsible for the required number of learners in accordance with company guidelines
2. To carry out diagnostic assessments with learners to identify additional learning support requirements
3. To design and implement a personal learning plan to meet individual needs and requirements
4. To deliver Functional Skills qualifications in accordance with company guidelines and timescales
5. To deliver individual and group training sessions on employers' premises
6. To maintain paperwork to the minimum required standards
7. To ensure learner retention is at an acceptable level
8. Review learners' performance in accordance with contract guidelines
9. Motivate/drive learners to achieve in line with agreed targets and deadlines
10. Support the learning process
11. Plan the assessment & learning process with learners - observe/record assessment and complete all relevant documentation
12. Any other duties that form time to time are required.

Minimum Requirements:
To be considered for this role, it is expected you may currently work as a Functional Skills Tutor, with an up-to-date knowledge of the sector. You will have relevant qualifications within the Tutor/training industry, be confident and flexible in your week-to-week diary. It could be you are currently in an education setting (Learning Assistant, coach, etc.) and are looking to advance your career.

On offer is a fantastic basic salary of £23.5k - £24k (dependent on experience), a performance-related bonus scheme, generous holiday allowance (as well as your Birthday off!), as well as a host of other benefits. Interviews will be ASAP -

If you are interested and fit the bill, please get in touch or send your CV in complete confidence for this rare opportunity.