Skills Tutor Motor Vehicle - Rotherham, United Kingdom - Aptitude Recruitment

Description

Aptitude Recruitment work with employers of choice across the skills and employability sector. We are currently looking to support a market leading College in adding to their ever-growing team. They are looking for a Skills Tutor Motor Vehicle to join their ever-growing department.


About the role

The role of Skills Tutor is to equip our students with skills for their future through the delivery of outstanding education and training and inspire students to achieve their potential.

This role offers you the opportunity to do this every day. It is the job satisfaction that comes from this that makes a teaching role special.

The key roles of a Skills Tutor are to deliver excellent Assessment / learning, completing the relevant preparation and marking that supports this, and to set SMART targets to enable students to reach their potential.

Main Duties

• You will assess within the learners place of work on a range of learning activities, appropriate to your skills and qualifications. You will undertake all necessary planning, preparation and assessment to ensure excellent teaching and learning occurs.
• You will undertake the necessary administrative tasks associated with your role, which include learner registration, attendance, record keeping, tracking, and reporting and for most 1618 learners, liaison with parents and guardians.
• You will be expected to meet normal demands of an Academic Calendar including the production of Schemes of Work, planning for lessons and meeting Quality and awarding body requirements.
• You'll prepare students for higher levels of study (including Higher Education) and vitally for the world of work, developing specific vocational work and employability skills through the curriculum, and by using external/internal links.
• As well as teaching, assessment plays an important role in providing pre and oncourse guidance that supports learners through to successful outcomes. You will therefore undertake activities which will include learner interviews and enrolment, and other marketing and public relations activities associated with the course. This may include liaison with parents and guardians' schools, industry, the community and other organisations to identify requirements, promote the College and recruit learners.
• You will have overall responsibility of the academic and pastoral care of a group or groups, which will include the arrangement of support requirements for students in communication with your Curriculum Team Leader / Curriculum Leader and Progress Tutor.
• You will be responsible for ensuring the progression and success of each student for which you are group tutor.

This includes:

• You will keep up to date records and have responsibility for all relevant student information, both pastoral and academic, e.g. Attendance, punctuality, support needs, tracking of assignments/tests, unit completion etc.
• You will set targets using an electronic individual learning programme (eILP) for each student o Monitoring and tracking of enrolment, registration and exam claims.
• Academic rigour, transparency and validity are vital. All work carried out must satisfy external body requirements and be in line with College policy and procedure. You will prepare relevant submissions and liaise with accrediting bodies. You will also undertake Internal Quality Assessment/Moderation duties to implement College Quality Assurance processes and procedures for learning programmes.
• You will contribute to the departmental selfassessment process and selfassessment Review (SAR) and College Assessment Review (CAR).
• You will be required to organise your work to meet the requirements of your role to maximise your effectiveness and delivery of the below key objectives. Sub Objectives
• Recruiting the 'Right Students to the Right Course' in sufficient numbers to provide students with good experiences for learning and to ensure programmes can be sustained by making a financial contribution to the Department.
• To deliver teaching and learning that is consistently excellent.
• Ensure the achievement of all quality assurance measures (which includes meeting all awarding body requirements and engaging in internal verification processes).
• Ensure that students are appropriately supported (through working collaboratively with Progress Tutor / ALS) and escalating any relevant issues to the Programme Leader / Curriculum Team Leader.
• Ensure the effective management of data, ensuring that such processes as registers are accurate and timely in your Curriculum area, working alongside Management Information Services as required. Challenges
• You will be able to support students to achieve their best no matter what their challenges are to do so, and present yourself as a positive role model to students.

Your role in the Department

• Your line manager will be the Curriculum Manager. You will regularly report on your objectives to update your Programme Leader / Curriculum Leader reg