Role: Personal Achievement Tutor

Location: The Bedford Sixth Form

Salary: Salary from £21,360 (0.89 FTE) DOE and Qualifications

Hours/Weeks: 37/40 Weeks (0.89 FTE)

Contract Type: Permanent - Full Time

Benefits:

• Peoples Pension
• Retail and leisure discounts

About the role:

We are looking for a Personal Achievement Tutor to join our Sixth Form. As Tutor you will play a pivotal role in the success of the students through:

• Student Support: Deliver tutorial support and professional skills development to help students stay on-programme and achieve their potential.
• Group and Individual Support: Provide weekly group and one-to-one support in specific vocational/academic areas, covering topics like safeguarding, resilience, health, life skills, and employability.
• Pastoral Care: Ensure attendance, retention, and progression targets by identifying at-risk students and offering appropriate intervention.
• Collaboration: Work with relevant stakeholders to maximize student progression.
• Safeguarding: Actively promote the College's safeguarding agenda.

About you:

Essential

• Good all-round education to include qualifications at Level 3
• Maths and English to GCSE (Grade A - C) or equivalent
• PTLLS or willingness to gain within a year
• Willingness to work towards Level 2 Safeguarding and Youth Mental Health First Aid qualification
• Willingness to work towards health and safety in the work place qualifications
• Experience of working in a further education, sixth form or related setting
• Experience of working in a student support or related role
• Experience of providing advice, guidance and/or education to young people and/or adults
• Experience of delivering group sessions to facilitate aspects of the tutorial curriculum
• Previous experience of handling enquiries and contacting employers and external agencies
• Ability to communicate with a diverse range of audiences including young people, parents, managers and team members
• Excellent organisation skills and ability to prioritise own workload, work under pressure and meet deadlines
• Excellent IT, administrative and record-keeping skills and drive to enhance learning through technology
• Ability to provide a consistently high-quality learning experience for all students
• Must have full clean driving license and use of own vehicle for work purposes with appropriate insurance

Desirable

• Degree or equivalent professional qualification
• Training/qualifications in advice and/or guidance
• Training/qualifications in teaching
• Safeguarding training
• Equality and diversity training
• Experience of coaching or motivating a diverse range of people to improve performance
• Knowledge and/or experience of aspects of the tutorial curriculum and outcomes for students, including personal social development, study skills, career learning and employability
• Previous experience of working for a Work Based learning/Training provider

Successful candidates must also be able to demonstrate alignment to our organisational VISION values:

• Valuing Teamwork - We are one team who by working together can achieve great things, respecting the opinion and valuing the contribution each of us makes.
• Improving Continuously - We challenge ourselves to always do better by trying new things, sharing knowledge, reflecting on practice and learning from others.
• Student Centred - At our heart is always doing what is best for our students. We consider students in all of our decision making to create positive outcomes and memorable experiences for every student.
• Inclusive - We celebrate differences and diversity, recognising that we can learn from each other.
• Open and Caring - We care about the wellbeing of our staff, our students, our community and wider society, creating an environment built on trust where we listen, engage with and support each other.
• Nurturing Education Excellence - We promote educational excellence by delivering programmes that challenge our students to achieve their ambitions.

About The Bedford College Group
The Bedford College Group was formed in 2017 following the merger of Bedford College and Tresham College and is now the largest provider of education in the South East Midlands, with over 15,000 students passing through our doors each year.

Today, the Group is made up of a family of colleges across Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire:"Bedford College, Central Bedfordshire College and"Tresham"College"in the towns of Bedford, Dunstable, Leighton Buzzard, Corby, Kettering and Wellingborough;"Shuttleworth"College,"a specialist land-based college; The Bedford Sixth Form, (the only dedicated sixth form in Bedford); The Corby Sixth Form, (opened in September 2023); and the National College for Motorsport"alongside"Silverstone"race circuit."To widen accessibility to education and training, the Group also has community-based Learning Centres in Bedford, Corby and Kettering which offer IT training.

Safeguarding our Students
The Bedford College Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to thorough vetting process which includes, an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory references.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975, provides information about which convictions must be declared during job applications and related exceptions and further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide. The Bedford College Group's policy on Employment of Ex-Offenders is attached to this vacancy.

Candidates who are barred from working with children are reminded it is a criminal offence to apply for this post.