Functional Skills Tutor

“Shaw Trust promotes team spirit, inclusiveness and it is an organisation where everybody is somebody. I am proud to be part of this great organisation.”

At Shaw Trust we believe everyone has the right to live a decent and dignified life and an opportunity for rewarding work. We are a social purpose organisation challenging inequality and breaking down barriers to enable social mobility.

For us being part of the solution is about creating the conditions for this to happen, advocating and delivering services that make a real difference. Working in partnership not competition, we are part of an eco-system of purpose-led organisations, striving for a fairer, more equal society centred on opportunity for all.

Functional Skills Tutor Purpose

We are looking for a skilled tutor that will help learners apply Functional Skills in a real, vocational, and practical way to support their studies and workplace aspirations.

The successful Functional Skills Tutor will deliver and develop a range of resources dedicated to helping individuals improve their core Maths and English to help them achieve a level 1 or level 2 qualification, meeting the needs of employers and learners, to the standards set by awarding bodies.

Delivery of these programmes will be field based with some remote delivery, both 121 and group teaching and learning sessions. This is an exciting opportunity for someone to support young people with SEND to achieve qualifications in Maths and English to improve their employment prospects.

If you are interested in transforming young people’s lives to achieve these qualifications improving their opportunity into paid employment, then please consider this position.

Please note: This is a Term Time Only Position

Location:

The successful Functional Skills Tutor will be home-based with travel to operational sites as required, including York and Selby.

Employee Benefits

As an employee of Shaw Trust as well as positively impacting people’s lives, you will have access to the following benefits:

25 days annual leave per year (plus bank holidays), with incremental increases post 3 years’ service up to 28 days, and the option to purchase additional holiday
2 days paid volunteering leave each year
An enhanced pension scheme after 6 months
Life Assurance at 3 times your annual salary rate
Access to a suite of learning and development opportunities including paid for apprenticeship and masters’ levels qualifications, and management development programmes
Opportunities to connect with our employee diversity networks (LGBTQ+ Support Network, Racial Equality Network, Disability Equality Network, Neurodiversity Peer Support Network, Women’s Network, MANaging Network, Menopause Network Group)
Health and Wellbeing initiatives including internal support, employee assistance programme and health cash plan
Opportunity to request flexible working from day one

Join a diverse and inclusive organisation

Shaw Trust is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive working environment, where every employee, regardless of their background or lived experience, feels that they belong and can progress in their career.

In addition;

We are proud to be certified as an employer who meets the National Equality Standard, the accepted standard for inclusiveness in business across the UK.
We are Disability Confident Leaders, support the guaranteed interview scheme and use of the government’s Access to Work scheme.
Living our values, we are keen to reflect the diversity of UK society at every level within our organisation.

We welcome Functional Skills Tutor applications from all sections of the community including from people with lived experience and/or knowledge of disability or social exclusion.

Salary: £25062 – £30917/annum

Job Type: Part Time

Location: York, City of York

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