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Freelance - Skills Development Tutors
| Posting date: | 25 July 2024 |
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| Salary: | £25 to £30 per hour |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 04 August 2024 |
| Location: | Sussex |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 1 day per week |
| Company: | The Grace Eyre Foundaiton |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | GE2439 |
Summary
Who we are:
The Grace Eyre Foundation is a charity based in Brighton & Hove and the wider Sussex community that has been working with people with a Learning Disability and autistic people since 1898. Our mission is to work towards being led by people with Learning Disabilities and autistic people to deliver high-quality housing, support and activities in their local communities. The people we support tell us that they want “good support from kind and friendly people” – so that is what we are looking for!
Introduction:
Grace Eyre has an ambitious Employment Strategy from 2020 till 2027 to increase the employment of people with learning disabilities and/ or autism in the Sussex area.
The Grace Eyre Foundation are seeking engaging, inspiring and experienced freelance ‘Skills Development’ Tutors to deliver work skills, life skills or functional numeracy courses for adults with a learning disability and/or autism across Sussex. Some of the accredited courses that we will be delivering include: –
Multiply – improving money and numbers skills
Skills for Work – improving people’s readiness to join the workforce
Skills for Life – Improving wellbeing, confidence and daily living skills
As one of our Skills Development tutors, you will work closely with our Employment & Skills Coordinator and Active Lives Learning & Development Manager in delivering these various courses. You will deliver these courses at Grace Eyre locations, community centres and with carefully selected partners, e.g. other social care providers.
We are seeking an engaging, inspirational and enthusiastic tutors with experience teaching individuals with a learning disability and/or autism. Being able to be flexible, good IT skills and work well with various stakeholders is important, e.g. students, families, carers and partners.
Brief outline of the role
You do not need to have an official teaching qualification, but must have experience of working with learners with SEN and supporting them to achieve accreditation.
Familiarity with OFSTED and ASDAN would be highly attractive. You will have exceptional communication skills with the ability to support and adapt to a range of support needs. Enhanced DBS check required.
For further details please have a look at the attached ‘Skills Development Job Advert’ document attached to the advert on our website .
We are a living wage employer and have been accredited as an Investors in People employer. We have level 3 disability confident leader employer status. If you enjoy working with people to achieve their goals in a friendly and welcoming environment, please get in touch.
From directly speaking to the people that we work with they want people who support and work with them are nice and kind. We want staff to give us space (when we need it) and be respectful.
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion: No applicant for employment or employee will be treated less favourably than another on grounds of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, gender, sexual orientation, marriage & civil partnership or pregnancy & maternity, and we encourage applications from people with learning disabilities or identify with being on the autistic spectrum/neurodiverse.
Staff benefits include:
Enhanced holiday entitlement
One paid celebration day a year
Cost of living support package such as rental deposit scheme
Cycle to work scheme
Generous refer-a-friend scheme
One paid volunteering day a year
Enhanced sick pay
Enhanced employer pension contribution
Enhanced death in service
Training and development opportunities
Flexible working opportunities.
We are also:
A living wage employer
Accredited as a Disability Confident Leader
Accredited as an Investors in People employer
Successful applicants will be required to provide details of two referees. One must be your most recent employer, however if you have not undertaken employed work before, a reference from voluntary work, educational facility or personal reference can be accepted. You must also undertake an enhanced DBS Disclosure and provide proof of your right to work in the UK.
Please apply by filling in an application form. You can also apply by completing an accessible application form, downloading this and emailing it to recruitment@grace-eyre.org. Please state clearly which job you are applying for and the location when emailing recruitment.
If you are unable to complete our application form or if you require any additional support or reasonable adjustments, please contact us on the recruitment email above.
The Grace Eyre Foundation is a charity based in Brighton & Hove and the wider Sussex community that has been working with people with a Learning Disability and autistic people since 1898. Our mission is to work towards being led by people with Learning Disabilities and autistic people to deliver high-quality housing, support and activities in their local communities. The people we support tell us that they want “good support from kind and friendly people” – so that is what we are looking for!
Introduction:
Grace Eyre has an ambitious Employment Strategy from 2020 till 2027 to increase the employment of people with learning disabilities and/ or autism in the Sussex area.
The Grace Eyre Foundation are seeking engaging, inspiring and experienced freelance ‘Skills Development’ Tutors to deliver work skills, life skills or functional numeracy courses for adults with a learning disability and/or autism across Sussex. Some of the accredited courses that we will be delivering include: –
Multiply – improving money and numbers skills
Skills for Work – improving people’s readiness to join the workforce
Skills for Life – Improving wellbeing, confidence and daily living skills
As one of our Skills Development tutors, you will work closely with our Employment & Skills Coordinator and Active Lives Learning & Development Manager in delivering these various courses. You will deliver these courses at Grace Eyre locations, community centres and with carefully selected partners, e.g. other social care providers.
We are seeking an engaging, inspirational and enthusiastic tutors with experience teaching individuals with a learning disability and/or autism. Being able to be flexible, good IT skills and work well with various stakeholders is important, e.g. students, families, carers and partners.
Brief outline of the role
You do not need to have an official teaching qualification, but must have experience of working with learners with SEN and supporting them to achieve accreditation.
Familiarity with OFSTED and ASDAN would be highly attractive. You will have exceptional communication skills with the ability to support and adapt to a range of support needs. Enhanced DBS check required.
For further details please have a look at the attached ‘Skills Development Job Advert’ document attached to the advert on our website .
We are a living wage employer and have been accredited as an Investors in People employer. We have level 3 disability confident leader employer status. If you enjoy working with people to achieve their goals in a friendly and welcoming environment, please get in touch.
From directly speaking to the people that we work with they want people who support and work with them are nice and kind. We want staff to give us space (when we need it) and be respectful.
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion: No applicant for employment or employee will be treated less favourably than another on grounds of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, gender, sexual orientation, marriage & civil partnership or pregnancy & maternity, and we encourage applications from people with learning disabilities or identify with being on the autistic spectrum/neurodiverse.
Staff benefits include:
Enhanced holiday entitlement
One paid celebration day a year
Cost of living support package such as rental deposit scheme
Cycle to work scheme
Generous refer-a-friend scheme
One paid volunteering day a year
Enhanced sick pay
Enhanced employer pension contribution
Enhanced death in service
Training and development opportunities
Flexible working opportunities.
We are also:
A living wage employer
Accredited as a Disability Confident Leader
Accredited as an Investors in People employer
Successful applicants will be required to provide details of two referees. One must be your most recent employer, however if you have not undertaken employed work before, a reference from voluntary work, educational facility or personal reference can be accepted. You must also undertake an enhanced DBS Disclosure and provide proof of your right to work in the UK.
Please apply by filling in an application form. You can also apply by completing an accessible application form, downloading this and emailing it to recruitment@grace-eyre.org. Please state clearly which job you are applying for and the location when emailing recruitment.
If you are unable to complete our application form or if you require any additional support or reasonable adjustments, please contact us on the recruitment email above.