Functional Skills Tutor

South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust

Functional Skills Tutor

The closing date is 26 July 2026

NHS Choices College is a supported internship programme that aims to support young adults with learning difficulties, disabilities, or autism to become employment ready.

You will work closely with the Education Quality Assurance Manager in delivering the English and maths educational outcomes which are a condition of our funding. You will play a key role in ensuring the programme meets the educational needs of the learners and our regulatory bodies.

Please note - this vacancy will be based in the North East of England. A driving licence and access to a vehicle are essential.

Career Progression pathways and development opportunities:

We are committed to getting the very best out of our staff and support staff in their career aspirations. We have career pathways available, where you will be able to develop your skills and build on your experience to progress into other roles in the college. For this role, we offer career pathways to education quality assurance, supported internship management. In addition, we offer ongoing training and development in teaching, assessment, quality assurance, autism, prevent and safeguarding.

We offer flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.

Unless expressly stated in the job advert this role is not subject to sponsorship, please be advised that all offers of employment are subject to evidence of right to work in the UK.

Job responsibilities

The post holder is required to ensure that a high standard of teaching and learning is delivered in the classroom, making reasonable adjustments as necessary to meet learners current needs and academic level and maintain consistency of teaching and learning across their lessons.

A core scheme of work is delivered. Planning of teaching, learning and assessment to ensure compliance with Awarding Organisation and consideration of individual learner needs is required. The post holder will follow the college policy and processes to ensure that documents, systems and processes to track progress of learners is followed and up to date. The postholder will plan, teach and evaluate learning as agreed with the Education Quality Assurance Manager to agreed Ofsted and Department for Education policy and standards, and to meet the highest levels of quality in the teaching and learning of learners.

This post holder manages their learning support assistant to ensure that their practice meets the requirements of the learners within the classroom. The post holder is part of the regional team which is managed by the Regional Manager. However; the Education Quality Assurance manager will support and ensure that compliance with quality and teaching learning and assessment is in place.

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level or equivalent
• Hold a recognised post 16/ adult teaching qualification minimum Level 3 (AET/PTTLS/PGCE/)
• A commitment to continuing professional development with an interest and ability in developing new approaches to teaching
• English and maths qualifications at level 3 or equivalent
• Training in Systematic Instruction
• Autism training

Experience

• Successful experience of teaching to adult learners of mixed ability and education level in group settings
• Experience of managing a scheme of work for maths and English at varying levels of competence to learners with learning disabilities or autism
• Knowledge of and experience in, the use and suitability of appropriate teaching and learning methods, to communicate the subject and encourage learners from a range of backgrounds and communities to progress in this subject area
• Knowledge and experience of contextualising subject specialism/s in vocational areas
• Experience of successfully planning, delivering, assessing, and evaluating teaching and learning to adult learners
• Experience of working with learners who have autism and the interventions that may be needed to maintain positive impact of the college on the learner.
• Working knowledge of MS office packages
• Understanding of confidentiality and data protection legislation including information governance
• Experience of working with data systems or office systems e.g. diary management
• Experience of contributing information to formulate project reports
• Experience of documenting and reporting on risks and issues which includes identifying, monitoring and escalating the impact of risks and issues via the risk register for each project.
• Have a commitment to and be able to demonstrate knowledge of health and safety, equality and diversity, Prevent agenda, e safety and safeguarding as appropriate to the post
• Project Management experience to implement and support programme delivery
• Knowledge of Choices College/supported internships and employment opportunities for people with learning disabilities

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.