Tutor

We are currently looking for a SEN Tutor to teach one of our core foundation groups at our Bromford Campus in Birmingham. The group consists of learners who have more complex learning and communication needs and are working at Pre-Entry to Entry Level 1. Working alongside our team of tutors and reporting into our lead tutors, you will teach a specific group of between 8 and 14 learners for 16 - 18 hours per week, ensuring all lessons and activities are thoroughly planned in line with our bespoke curriculum (which we'll give you full training on). You will deliver varied and interactive sessions to maximise learners' success and make a real impact on learner outcomes.

If you are passionate about improving the lives of young people with learning difficulties and autism, can engage and motivate young people to help them realise their vocational, independence, social and personal goals, have high expectations and a good sense of humour then we would encourage you to consider applying for this role.

Thank you very much for your interest in our position of Tutor here at Heart of Birmingham Vocational College (we all like to call the college 'HBVC', it's so much easier to say!). This is a fantastic opportunity to join our successful Teaching and Learning team and contribute to our continued growth and success.

HBVC is an exciting and innovative college with a reputation for high-quality provision that is responsive to the needs of our learners. Based in Birmingham, Edgbaston and Redditch, we specialise in providing excellent education and support to learners with diverse and additional needs. We offer full-time Study Programmes that provide individualised learning experiences, whilst developing learner's key employability and supported living skills. Our entire staff team are very passionate about making HBVC a great place for everyone to be and are committed to enabling learners to fulfil their aspirations. We have a unique approach to ensuring everyone feels a part of our college which is reflected in our core values of Openness, Determination, Excellence, Progress, Respect and Empowerment.

We have made it our mission to provide an inspirational learning environment for person centred vocational education in a community-based setting, enabling learners to achieve exceptional outcomes. Our vision is to empower our learners to prepare themselves for the next stage of their adult lives by providing them with transferable skills that enable them to become purposeful independent individuals and to find their place in their community.

We first opened our doors in 2014 with 10 learners and 3 staff. Since then, we have successfully grown the college to what it is today, with 147 students and 85 staff. We are an Ofsted rated 'Good' college and we are now looking for a Tutor to join our team and contribute towards our aim of achieving 'Outstanding' status.

A little about the role and what it's like to work with us, HBVC is an exciting and innovative college with a reputation for high-quality provision that is responsive to the needs of our learners. Based in Birmingham, we specialise in providing excellent education and support to learners with diverse and additional needs. We offer full-time Study Programmes that provide individualised learning experiences, whilst developing learner's key employability and supported living skills. Our entire staff team are very passionate about making HBVC a great place for everyone to be and are committed to enabling learners to fulfil their aspirations. We have a unique approach to ensuring everyone feels a part of our college which is reflected in our core values of Openness, Challenge, Excellent, Development and Inclusion.

We have made it our mission to provide an inspirational learning environment for person centred vocational education in a community-based setting, enabling learners to achieve exceptional outcomes. Our vision is to empower our learners to prepare themselves for the next stage of their adult lives by providing them with transferable skills that enable them to become purposeful independent individuals and to find their place in their community.

We first opened our doors in 2014 with 10 learners and 3 staff. Since then, we have successfully grown the college to what it is today, with over 125 students and 82 staff.

Salary - £27,265 - £33,459 (pay scale points 23 - 30) (actual gross p/a)

Reporting to - Curriculum Manager

Contract - Full Time, Term Time, Permanent

Note: This is a term time only role, you will be required to work during term time only, taking all college holidays. The salary range stated above is a pro-rata salary that already takes this into account, and the £ range stated is therefore the actual salary range for this position, with no further pro-rata reductions to be applied for term time only working.

We also offer all staff the option to join our 9 day fortnight working pattern - read on for more information., As you read this and consider whether this is the job for you, we would like to tell you a little about what it is like to work for HBVC. Our vision, values and mission encompass the views of all staff working with us and are at the core of everything we all do. We have a strong culture of high performance, continuous improvement, teamwork, and open communication. In return for your hard work and dedication, we can promise an investment in you and your future, offering a competitive remuneration and benefits package and excellent professional development.

Why you should choose us:

We're all about our people; our staff, our learners, our families. We recognise that taking a new job can sometimes be a daunting prospect and we want to show you why choosing to work with us is a great career decision. Working in education can be very challenging and the wellbeing of our staff team is vitally important to us; our learners deserve our best, for our staff to give their best, they need to feel their best.

In addition to basics such as an employer pension scheme and flexible working policy, we offer enhanced maternity and paternity benefits, a cashback healthcare scheme, off-site counselling and occupational health support, and basic confidential health checks with our on-site medic. We'll support you from your very first day with thorough induction and appraisal processes, and give you all the training you need to perform in you role.

This role is term time only, meaning all college holidays are your holidays too (16 weeks per year). We also operate an optional 9-day fortnight working pattern, which you can join from day 1; compress 10 working days' worth of hours into 9, in a working pattern that suits you between our opening hours of 7:30am - 5pm Monday to Friday, and take every 10^th day (always a Friday) off.

We really are committed to ensuring all staff working with us have a positive work-life balance., Our vision, values and mission encompass the views of all staff working with us and are at the core of everything we all do. We have a strong culture of high performance, continuous improvement, teamwork, and open communication. In return for your hard work and dedication, we can promise an investment in you and your future, offering a competitive remuneration and benefits package and excellent professional development.